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Books that changed your life
brandie:
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Forgot: Ishmael. I read this in high school and it blew my mind. It is perhaps my "pre" and "post" marker in reading.
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Glad to see someone else mention this. I had posted it several posts ago. Great book, isnt it?
onewheelwizzard:
I just reread Catch-22 yesterday. It was more brilliant than I remembered. It's probably the book I'd put at the top of any "best book" list I created.
As for my life, though, Tom Robbins changed it the most. "Skinny Legs and All" was an affirmation of so many amazing things I wasn't sure I believed in. "Jitterbug Perfume" reinforced and connected these beliefs. I could go on.
Read Tom Robbins books. Seriously.
theBrightside:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. This spare, tense, mythical voice. Isn't for the faint of heart. By the same author (but slightly less fantastic), Child of God and Suttree.
Lise:
I can't think of any particular book that changed my life, but several did shape the way I think and of course, my biases.
Several were about people's potential to be cruel to their own kind, etc.
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
What do YOU Care what Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
Girl with a Pearl Earring/The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
1984 by George Orwell
Just to name a few... they're mostly fiction novels of little consequence, and easy to read. And probably would interest females rather than males.
PS: I have a copy of On the Road that I haven't read yet... but due to the recommendation, I will start soon.
mrhemisphere:
Tuesdays with Morrie.
It almost made me cry. Which is hard to do, but the effects lasted for a couple of weeks, which is more to say than anything else.
I sadly, reverted back to my usual state.
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