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 Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:41 pm
What are the books that changed your life? Maybe one someone close gave you?! Was it for the better or worse?
For me the biggies are:
* Johnathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
* What Matters Most is How You Walk Through the Flames by Charles Boukowski
* Various short stories by Edger Allen Poe
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 3:17 pm
Three books make this list, and they are all on it because they taught me to open my mind, and to just take that box and chuck it as far away as possible.
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Especially the last one. I thought about that book for weeks. Absolutely couldn't get it out of my head. I was completely blown away. It's unlike anything else ever written.
Also? These three books are also among my favourites, exactly because they changed my life.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:11 pm
～My language instruction books heart
～Lord of the Rings (Need I say it?) J.R.R. Tolkien
～How Language Works David Crystal
～The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos Brian Greene
～Saints for Sinners
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:49 am
Thanks for the posts guys... I really love the ideas of books as life changing...
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:54 pm
The End (the final book in Series of Unfourtunate events by Lemony Snicket)
That one I still think about even after having had not reread it for over 6 months probably now.
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:15 pm
CaitlynEve The End (the final book in Series of Unfourtunate events by Lemony Snicket) That one I still think about even after having had not reread it for over 6 months probably now. I think about that one alot too.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:18 pm
there has been several books that altered my life and interests dramatically for a brief amount of time but enough so i can never cover it up. they are your typical theoretical physics books - the elegant universe, fabric of the cosmos, hyperspace, the universe in a nutshell, and something else...
also, i guess, The End of Poverty has had a big impact on me recently.
but i find that nonfic generally is short lived in the mind of a young HS student trying to cram as much facts into her brain as time allows.
Some books that really did alter my life significantly are, of course, stuff by Poe and Lovecraft, and also, Dostoevsky, especially The Idiot, Notes from Underground, and Crime and Punishment. I guess the Phantom of the opera had a pretty big effect on me too but i just read the book recently.
i used to be LotR obsessed and it probably is still messing with my subconsiousness...
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:39 pm
Poison by Christopher Wooding
It's a bit like cliche, but it's written in a good way. It's very psychological, and to fully understand it, you have to be in the right state of mind. If you aren't, there is a bunch of little details that, while aren't imperitive, are interesting to keep in mind and these little details DO motivate the characters in some way.
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:06 pm
I would have to say that the Graphic Novels titled Maus I and Maus II were two of the most interesting stories I've read. They were written by Spiegleman and they were written on the Holocaust. However, in this book, each race is portrayed by a different species of animal; the Jewish people were represented by rats, the Polish by the Pig, the French by the Frog, and the Germans by Cats. The writer had done a marvelous job of taking a mortifying situation and showing the public how horrid each scene could be through cartoons, and while they are often hard to look at, they aren't nearly as heart-wrenching as history book photographs. ^ ^'
I suppose I wouldn't call them 'Life Changing' books... but they were certainly worth reading, and they bring out a whole new perspective on the Holocaust. ^_^
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:37 pm
This Book Will Change Your Life by Benrik. It's truely amazing. biggrin
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:06 am
I've had countless books change my life, especially my World History AP text book. It opened my eyes to the world, I know now why different people do different things, why certain traditions exist, and what many countries are really based on.
The other two that are still clear in my mind are Lottery Rose (not sure of the authors name) and A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. It showed me that although my family screams at eachother all the time, and can't really confide in one another, I really should value that I have family at all, and that I can be sure they wouldn't ever physically harm me. I really started appreciating everything after reading these books.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:04 pm
paulo colho's veronica decides to die and jostein gaarder's sophies world and through a looking glass darkly and the christmas story and an triail by mairead ni ghrada.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:27 pm
ebandy Poison by Christopher Wooding
It's a bit like cliche, but it's written in a good way. It's very psychological, and to fully understand it, you have to be in the right state of mind. If you aren't, there is a bunch of little details that, while aren't imperitive, are interesting to keep in mind and these little details DO motivate the characters in some way. I love that book, it was stuck in my head for months. I would say The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley. I had to read it for a school assignment but the impact of the book itself left me awed for a long time.
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:15 pm
I'll have to consider this, I've read so many, that have changed so many small ways I think or feel, not certain of any that have profoundly altered me though. A list of mine that I think have made at least some change are. . .
The Hobbit/ Lord of the Rings
No Flying through the house
Dune
Starship Troopers
The Secret Garden
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Rudyard Kiplings "Just So Stories"
Aesop's Fables
Hans Christian Anderson
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
War for the Oaks
Tammerlane
Once and Future King
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
The Chronicles of Pyrdain
The Dark is Rising (series)
The Interpreters, Season of Anomy and Aké (Wole Soyinka)
That'll do for beginners, but I got bunches more. One that once would have been in the list was "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" but I'm looking to replace it with a better "look" after speaking with several scholar's (all who are actually Native American) who dismiss it as an important work. Anyhow
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:26 pm
I'd agree with the girl who said Slaughterhouse Five. Everything Kurt Vonnegut does is absolutely brilliant. He has definitely helped shape a lot of my thought.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is great.. it's one of my favorite all-time favorite novels and helped me see people deemed insane really just like the rest of us. On The Road by Jack Kerouac is very inspirational in the sense that it makes you go crazy and want to hitchhike like mad. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein is a book I've recently read that has been on my mind a lot lately.
I had the Bukowski book you mentioned in my hands earlier today! I probably would've bought it if I had read this beforehand. Instead I bought In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. d**k.
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