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ok 5 life changing books, lets hear them
ThePQ4:
Pfft...you guys are such adults!
1. Harry Potter (all of them. I'm not going to pinpoint one in particular...but the third one), J.K. Rowling
2. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
3. Sticks and Stones, Lynn Hall
4. Sevens (series), Scott Wallens
5. My Sisters Keeper, Jodi Picoult
(...the only two 'adult' books on there are The Hours and My Sisters Keeper. I am such a child, it's awesome.)
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 05 Feb 2007, 03:27 ---5. Lady Chatterleys Lover (D. H. Lawrence)
Beautiful, redemptive novel that has more to say to me about love than any other.
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I daresay this work is Lawrence's masterpiece and that's saying something. Excellent pick.
Edith:
There are significantly more than 5 books that have changed my life, so these may not be the most important; they are the ones I can think of right now.
1. Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Literature, which must be why my high school library had a copy. Reading it gave me glimmerings of understanding that I wasn't alone in my lack of faith in Christianity. It started my journey to accepting myself as agnostic.
2. The Same Last Name by Kathleen Gilles Seidel was the first Harlequin romance I stole from my mom, in 6th grade. I took it to school, my friends and I all read "the good parts," and I looked up some words in the classroom dictionary. I still remember the plot pretty clearly, too.
3. The Joy of Sex taught me what my clitoris was called. Among other things. Those drawings of hippies in their raincoats and boots haunted me for years, though.
4. Strunk & White's The Elements of Style remains the most important book on my personal reference shelf.
5. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach changed my afterlife. Before reading it I was all for cremation; now I want to be composted when I die.
ThePQ4:
--- Quote from: pinkgrrlygeek on 05 Feb 2007, 13:24 ---3. The Joy of Sex taught me what my clitoris was called. Among other things. Those drawings of hippies in their raincoats and boots haunted me for years, though.
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...Is it bad that I learned more from a book called "The Gay Sex" then from "The Joy of Sex"? ...Is it also bad that I have read/perused both of these books?
(Edit note: Hey, I could have said perooseled or something horrendous like that)
Edith:
Nope, not bad.
I learned a lot more about sex from other books than from that one, too. But that was my first. And probably the most life-changing.
Perused, not puroosed.
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