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KharBevNor:
1. Illuminatus! (Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson)

If you were on the Isle of Wight over the summer of 2005, you may have heard an echoing blast as if of a bomb exploding: that was my mind about halfway through reading this. Brilliant, insightful, insane and uniquely entertaining.

2. The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)

I first read it when I was 10: It's rather set the tone ever since.

3. Magick Without Tears (Aleister Crowley)

Best book on the occult ever written, or at least that I've read. The second of Crowleys major works I read, gave me an actual real understanding of Thelema, and made me the weekend Thelemist I am today.

4. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)

The main book that underpins my philosophy of art.

5. Lady Chatterleys Lover (D. H. Lawrence)

Beautiful, redemptive novel that has more to say to me about love than any other.

doki:
1, Earth X.  it reintroduced me to the wonderful world of comics
2, Disinformation, Dr Karl, lots of fun. plus a great mythbuster
3, The Cobain Diaries
4, fight club, chuck palanuk, got me back into reading and writing
5, silk allesandro bochelle (Spelling), groovy work with the format, short and easily digestable

kallisti:
1. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

yeah yeah, laugh it up. I'm serious. I read this book when I was 9 or 10. It was my first really really fucking long "grown-up" book. I read it over and over and over again until both covers fell off.  It just served to solidify my already developing addiction to the written word. 

2. 1984 - George Orwell

This is such a cliched response, I know, but I love it just as much as ever, if not more, every time I reread it. It, along with Thomas More's Utopia, Brave New World, Player Piano, and Welcome to the Monkey House (and any other dystopian future literature you can think of) just made me really conscious of all the dark sides of things that can seem like really good developments (technology, socialism, communism, public safety,and so on and so forth).

3. oh fuck I have to go to class now I'll come back and edit this post later. 

carpetspaghetti:
if you like brave new world and 1984 try WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin, apparently Orwell read and reviewed it just before writing 1984 i find it's kind of like a cross between the two books. v v good a must read.

oh and on my religion in answer to Valrus i am generaly v okay with agnostics. i reckon you should believe what you want as long as your happy im happy. the impression i got from the life of pi was a boy being accepting of other peoples beliefs and showing them the respect they deserve not one of impatience for agnostics.

Mnementh:
I'm not sure I see books as something that should really be life changing.  Ideas maybe, but I think that to be truly life changing you need to experience them.

However, a few books that definitely made me think, or somehow opened a train of thought for me are something I can talk about, though the books share much of the credit with my wonderful friend Jody, who introduced me to many of them.

Deliver Me From Nowhere by Tennessee Jones.  It's a series of short stories that run parallel to Springsteen's Nebraska album.  It is dark, raw, and emotional, and makes you think more about the world of the song and the lives of the characters.

White Noise by Don DeLillo.  This is a great book, and it really turned me onto contemporary American fiction.

I've got a few more, but I have to get back to work.

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