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1977 Books
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,695,495 ratings — published 1977
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.03 — 333,512 ratings — published 1977
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 587,964 ratings — published 1977
A Scanner Darkly (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.03 — 109,961 ratings — published 1977
The Thorn Birds (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.25 — 364,081 ratings — published 1977
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,915 ratings — published 1977
The Hour of the Star (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.11 — 53,781 ratings — published 1977
Rage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.71 — 57,383 ratings — published 1977
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.83 — 137,855 ratings — published 1977
Dispatches (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,631 ratings — published 1977
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.12 — 25,217 ratings — published 1977
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.95 — 23,530 ratings — published 1977
Lucifer's Hammer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,344 ratings — published 1977
The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.77 — 101,447 ratings — published 1977
A Book of Common Prayer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,518 ratings — published 1977
Shanna (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,185 ratings — published 1977
The Howling (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,482 ratings — published 1977
Miss Nelson Is Missing! (Miss Nelson, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.31 — 109,777 ratings — published 1977
A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,671 ratings — published 1977
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.15 — 66,513 ratings — published 1977
Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.11 — 35,996 ratings — published 1977
A Spell for Chameleon (Xanth, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.92 — 47,739 ratings — published 1977
The Public Burning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,506 ratings — published 1977
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.09 — 27,286 ratings — published 1977
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,074 ratings — published 1977
Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 47,410 ratings — published 1977
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,304 ratings — published 1977
Oliver's Story (Love Story, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.26 — 6,847 ratings — published 1977
Daniel Martin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,840 ratings — published 1977
Midnight Express (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,709 ratings — published 1977
In Patagonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.65 — 19,101 ratings — published 1977
I Am the Cheese (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.78 — 17,512 ratings — published 1977
The Plague Dogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,867 ratings — published 1977
A Judgement in Stone (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,061 ratings — published 1977
Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,221 ratings — published 1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,280 ratings — published 1977
Our Lady of Darkness (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,419 ratings — published 1977
Suffer the Children (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.92 — 31,507 ratings — published 1977
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,923 ratings — published 1977
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,928 ratings — published 1977
Coming Into the Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,587 ratings — published 1977
A Way of Life, Like Any Other (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,431 ratings — published 1977
The Vision (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,085 ratings — published 1977
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,475 ratings — published 1977
The Warriors (Kent Family Chronicles, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,620 ratings — published 1977
“Even assuming that a mantra's shabdic ["sacred sound"] quality is an important component of its effectiveness, that quality can come into play only when the mantra is uttered by one properly instructed in the art of yogic visualization; for mantras have not only sound, but also form and color; the form or the archetypal image or symbol with which it is associated must be evoked at the moment of utterance, since that image is the repository of all the psychic, emotional and spiritual energy drawn from all the adepts who have ever concentrated upon that particular image or symbol since it first came into being. (That the energy generated by a succession of yogins throughout the centuries is present in such symbols is a concept that will not surprise those acquainted with C.G. Jung's teaching about archetypes.) […T]he lamas teach that the mantra appropriate to each of the divine forms contemplated embodies the psychic energy of that 'being'. In other words, the yogically visualized image of the deity or the mantric syllable that symbolizes it is a centre for the powerful through-associations built around it by countless yogins during past centuries and by the adept himself in his meditations; however, it also constitutes a particular embodiment of the energies streaming from the Source and it is to this aspect that the shabdic quality of the appropriate mantra probably pertains. As the sound is no more than a symbol of the mantra's latent power, mispronunciation of the syllables is no grave matter; for it is the adept's intention that unlocks the powers of his mind. Though the mantra may consist of syllables to which no conceptual meaning is attached, pronouncing them nevertheless enables him to conjure up instantly in his mind the psychic qualities he has learnt to associate with them.”
― Mantras: Sacred Words of Power
― Mantras: Sacred Words of Power
“If you ever get twenty-five years [imprisonment] for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground—from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII

















