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What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?

Every reader has at least one, that book that never caught on, or is out of print, but that resonates so much with people that they can't forget it. I still remember reading "The Republic of Tea" on the Sunday it came out years ago. And of course, Steve Pressfield's "The War of Art" which I've purchased and handed out a dozen times so far...

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    Thaniya Keereepart 500+

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    Feb 16 2011: Le Petit Prince. Yes - a children's book - but one full of philosophical grandeurs, simplified. Every time I read this book I get a new takeaway that resonates with the current events of my life.

    "Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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      John Bland

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      Feb 16 2011: As a child with polio ('40s) I spent months abed unable to do much but read. That which we persist in doing becomes habit . . . .[Brigham Young] I have since read far more than I can figure how to tell. The Little Prince, a gift from a most unusual young lady that I met in the middle of a dark and freezing night in a driveway, is my most treasured book I suspect that it has profoundly affected many a 'child.' Don't miss Ste. X's 'adult' and 'posthumous' writings, especially The Wisdom of the Sands (The Citadel).

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