Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning.” It gave me a toolkit to survive getting sick and dealing with a life changing event.

> man’s search for meaning Loved this book the first time I read it. Couldn’t finish it a second time. I think some of the darker parts were too much during an already difficult year. Giving it as a gift to my nephew though.

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankel, it is his experience of how he managed to survive the concentration camps. Book of Mormon The Stormlight Archive series (Way of Kings, Words of Radience, Oathbringer) - Brandon Sanderson, I've heard it compared to the Kingkiller Chronicles in terms of depth, intricacies and overall masterfully executed plot but Sanderson is also one of the best authors at making characters real and captivating that I've ever met. Mistborn Series (The Final Empire, Well of Ascension, Hero of Ages) by the same author as The Stormlight Archives and for the same reasons. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis, even if you aren't religious it has helped me see so much clearly the tactics and obstacles that prevent me from being the person I want to be. I've read quite a few more books more often but these are the books that I have reread multiple times because they have changed who I am and helped me recognize that each time I fall I can rise again a better man.

Mans Search For Meaning affected me in a way that very few books ever have. You grow up knowing about the holocaust, you see the imagery, but it's all impersonal. You understand why it's a horrific deed, why hitler was a horrible human being, and why we as a society should never allow that to happen again. But there's just something about Frankl's descriptions, at least for me. It personalized it in a way I had never really experienced before. That book horrified me in a way that none of the other material on the holocaust ever had.

Man's Search for Meaning - ViktorFrankl Endgame (Biography of Bobby Fischer) - Frank Brady Walt Disney - Bob Thomas The Given Day - Dennis Lehane (Fiction) Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane (Way better than movie) Michael Lewis - The Big Short Churchill - Paul Johnson (faster read than the others)