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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 2315237" data-attributes="member: 4">Interesting, I was contemplating starting a similar thread!I am re-reading Games People Play, a book on the psychology of human interaction.  My first read through was one of those paradigm-shifting moments that really changed my outlook.  All humans need "strokes" (emotional or physical), and we can learn to ask for them from and to give them to our loved ones without needing to resort to "games" (underhanded or indirect means of acquiring strokes; "games" also allow us to reinforce our essential world-views that may be warped or inaccurate, things like "I'm a failure" or "People can't be trusted").  Also contains a brief summary of transaction analysis (the Parent, Adult, and Child in each of us and how we use them to engage others).  As much as I love Lord of the Rings, the fantasy series that started me on the road to my love of reading was Chronicles of Narnia.  I re-read lots of books just for fun: Dune series; The Name of the Rose; Canticle for Leibowitz; The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (I curl up with that one and just browse -- it's fascinating).  I'm sure I'm forgetting something obvious...</blockquote>