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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 — 1,695,225 ratings — published 1977
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.03 — 333,451 ratings — published 1977
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 587,917 ratings — published 1977
A Scanner Darkly (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.03 — 109,944 ratings — published 1977
The Thorn Birds (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.25 — 364,067 ratings — published 1977
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,888 ratings — published 1977
The Hour of the Star (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.11 — 53,737 ratings — published 1977
Rage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.71 — 57,373 ratings — published 1977
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.83 — 137,853 ratings — published 1977
Dispatches (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,630 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 — 23,527 ratings — published 1977
Lucifer's Hammer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,342 ratings — published 1977
The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.77 — 101,445 ratings — published 1977
A Book of Common Prayer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,516 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 — 14,483 ratings — published 1977
Miss Nelson Is Missing! (Miss Nelson, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.31 — 109,775 ratings — published 1977
A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,670 ratings — published 1977
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.15 — 66,507 ratings — published 1977
Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.11 — 35,997 ratings — published 1977
A Spell for Chameleon (Xanth, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.92 — 47,738 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 — 27,276 ratings — published 1977
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,073 ratings — published 1977
Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 47,407 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 — 9,302 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 — 19,098 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 — 8,865 ratings — published 1977
A Judgement in Stone (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,062 ratings — published 1977
Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,220 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 — 22,925 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 — 16,083 ratings — published 1977
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,474 ratings — published 1977
The Warriors (Kent Family Chronicles, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as 1977)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,620 ratings — published 1977
“Yo he publicado nada más tres novelas en mi vida y pienso que son demasiadas.”
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“Over a bowl of noodles [the younger Cantonese man] waxed eloquent on the subject of mantras. 'Ordinary people, Ah Jon, use mantras as spells to win good fortune or ward off disease and other evils. Perhaps they are right to do so, for the mantras are often successful, but I do not ask you to believe that. What I beg you to believe is that they are of the greatest help in altering states of consciousness. They do this by making your mind stay still instead of chasing after thoughts.'
He went on to explain that, being devoid of meaning, they do not promote conceptual thought as prayers, invocations and so forth are apt to do; and that, as each mantra has a mysterious correspondence (he could not explain what kind of correspondence) with the various potentialities embedded deeply in our consciousness […] it could cause one to snap into a state otherwise hard to reach. I do not remember his actual words, but I do remember that he was the first to voice an idea which was later to be abundantly confirmed by my own experience. […] he went on to say that to use meaningful words in any kind of religious practice is useless, since words encourage dualistic thought which hinders the mind from entering upon a truly spiritual state. His last words […] were: 'People who pray with words are just beginners. Don't do it!' Several passengers who understood English glanced at him as though they thought him a bit mad and I myself was quite taken aback by his un-Chinese vehemence, but I know now that he was eminently sane.”
― Mantras: Sacred Words of Power
He went on to explain that, being devoid of meaning, they do not promote conceptual thought as prayers, invocations and so forth are apt to do; and that, as each mantra has a mysterious correspondence (he could not explain what kind of correspondence) with the various potentialities embedded deeply in our consciousness […] it could cause one to snap into a state otherwise hard to reach. I do not remember his actual words, but I do remember that he was the first to voice an idea which was later to be abundantly confirmed by my own experience. […] he went on to say that to use meaningful words in any kind of religious practice is useless, since words encourage dualistic thought which hinders the mind from entering upon a truly spiritual state. His last words […] were: 'People who pray with words are just beginners. Don't do it!' Several passengers who understood English glanced at him as though they thought him a bit mad and I myself was quite taken aback by his un-Chinese vehemence, but I know now that he was eminently sane.”
― Mantras: Sacred Words of Power
