It’s just too bad what Hollywood has done to true art. When Pat Conroy first penned this amazing feat, who knew it would be destroyed by the like of Barbara Streisand?! Sorry Barbara but your hands are no longer like ‘butter’ after that dastardly deed you pulled on this otherwise spectacular story.

Here’s a novel which tells of a story spanning forty years and Barbara stole it and turned it into a money-making advertisement and a cheesy romance with no sense of taste or decorum. Shame on you Barbara!

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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: An inquiry into values is the Introductory course for all spiritually inclined individuals. Robert M. Pirsig’s book explores the Metaphysics of ‘quality’ and leads the spiritually curious student down the Easy Rider’s path to Buddhist Nothingness.

This great novel first came out in 1974 and describes a 17-day motorcycle journey across the US. The author and his son Chris are on a journey which is mystically aligned with a greater theme about higher consciousness.

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The road less traveled is a book that can literally change your life. Published in 1978, this book was written by a psychiatrist M. Scott Peck who had finally come to recognize what people needed in order to be happy.

It became his best-known work and literally catapulted him to success. In short, this is a book which clearly describes what makes up a fulfilled human being.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a short fable that is presented in the form of a novella.

Just the mere presentation of this book attracts the reader almost instantly and two hours can literally slip out of existence if you find a copy sitting on a coffee table and don’t care too much about your remaining appointments that day.

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What do you get when you take a fully grown onion and begin peeling away the layers to the very core?

First, you get a whole lot of tears and then you find a beautiful pearl in the centre. This is the pearl which emerged from a small, single-room penitentiary lockdown in Florida after nearly seven years of hardcore incarceration.

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Banned in the US for many years because of its profanity and liberal portrayal of teenage angst and sexuality, ‘The catcher in the rye’ was eventually chosen as one of the world’s 100 best novels by Time magazine.

The author, J.D. Salinger, retired to a remote island and lived as a recluse for the remaining decades of his life and his novel eventually became a common staple of high school and college curricula throughout the world.

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Throughout history, all major advancements have come about through the discovery of individuals who gathered together the information of their time and came to a particular conclusion which had previously gone unnoticed by others in the field.

Such changes in the currents of thought are classically described by Thomas Kuhn in his classic work ‘The structure of scientific revolutions’ where he explains how the general public is often slow to come to full awareness about the most significant of historic discoveries.

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