Barney Zwartz has written about what books he derives inspiration from:

 

Inspired - and inspirational
Barney Zwartz (The Age), 19th April 2011

"I became a Christian in my mid-20s because, after years of ridiculing the Bible, I actually read it.

Of course there were many other factors in my thinking and circumstances at the time, but the book that Christians have claimed is divinely inspired certainly inspired me.

Books are a common theme in this blog, particularly by posters, and after themost recent thread delved into the reote recesses in science fiction, I decided I would like to devote a topic to the books that have mattered in people’s lives.  And we might even get an invective-free thread....

With the Easter break coming up, which will give many people the chance to relax and read, why not share the books that made an impact? This could be on the world (Darwin’s Origin of Species or Marx’s Das Kapital,  Freud, even Hitler’s Mein Kampf) or on you personally, or both. Genre is not important. Which books changed the world, and changed you? How did they do that?  What do you turn to for pleasure or improvement, and are they the same.

This being nominally a religious blog, I’d be particularly interested in which books contributed to your spiritual life – or led you to reject religion – and why...."

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