Eye opening books?

Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Rant.)

Also Anything by Albert Camus ( The stranger, A Happy Death)

Im also a big hemmingway fan ( Old man and the sea, The Sun Also Rises)

Those will all severly mindfuck you especially the first two authors.
 
this one is really good. my personal favourite is Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, its super fun to read and you start seeing things differently

 
read the Hobit and LOTR man, even though you may think it's gay, Tolkein was a genius and his writing is impeccable.
 
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (one of my favorite books ever) and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (It's pretty long, but once you finish it it makes you think)
 
wow im surprised you didnt use you icon

into the wild is an amazing book, all about the materialistic life and such
 
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley

The Doors of Perception is Aldous Huxley's experience with mescaline. Its pretty rad its about the chemical compositions of our brains and how it affects are outlooks. It also talks about how our perception is changed.
 
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box.
This book changed my whole perspective on how i view people and how I view my own actions. The story is so fucking good. If your in college, this book will have way more impact on you then if you were younger... check this shit out.
 
yea dude

i mean it caused me to become a vegetarian

plus it has parts of socialism, corruption, and the disgusts of the meat industry all told throught the life of a immigrant, who brings his family to america

sound dumb, but really was amazing
 
Into the Wild is my favorite book (and movie) but i didnt really think it was 'eye-opening' in the sense that the books being mentioned in this thread are... although the book and movie did change my life.
 
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield

The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo

Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

Quantum and the Lotus - Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan

Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

Night - Elie Wiesel

 
it doesnt matter what your opinion on the Vietnam War is but the memoir A Rumor of War is really good and can open your eyes to what troops experienced over there.
 
The Stranger, if you really think about what you are reading, while you read it.... will change your life. It is only 100 something pages.
Ishmael l... by daniel quinn is amazing as well. Basically makes you second guess everything you have learned about religion and makes you want to meet a telepathic gorilla. I have made so many people read this book since I read it.
Lost Horizon by James Linton - harder to find but makes you question a lot of things about life and how you are spending yours. It is pretty short but really engaging.
 
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Any John Grisham book

1-The firm: the best book ever it keeps you on the edge the hole book amazing

2-The Chamber also another great one
 
Angels and Demons was the best book i have ever read. Even if you aren't into religion or history it is unbelievable. Hands down my favorite book, and i have read a lot of books.
 
Night was decent. i read it once on my own and once for school and i thought it was ok. its a good quick read, but that's about it.
 
i read alot of the books that are mention here and alot of them are good

im gonna add Rule of the bone by Russell Banks

alot of ns will relate to this

 
The bible

Into the wild is an amazing book. but not exactly eye opening.

another great one by Krankaur (sp?) is "under the banner of heaven"

read some of Thoreau's essays?

"The coming economic earthquake" is pretty dang interesting, and at teh same time you will be going "we're so fucked"

"survival in Auschwitz" Primo Levi
 
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