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Books that changed your life
Misereatur:
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I heard so much about it, and after I read it it was just 'meh'. I was really disappointed.
GuitarJunkie:
The one I have to say would be "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky more than anything else. Much more than anything else I've read.
On the Road along with "Dharma Bums both influenced me pretty deeply and also influenced my choice of avatar.
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All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. It has basically been the most illuminating account about the capacities and limits of the human psyche. Heart-wrenching ending.
The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien. Just wow. This book showed me how the difference between reality and what happens in your mind is minimal, and far too easily blurred.
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension, by Michio Kaku. A science popularizer about modern physics, such as string theory, chaos theory, M theory, etc. (shut up already, if you like books, your a nerd; what books it is matters not). It basically gave me a whole new outlook on life, and the implications of our actions.
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton. Malcolm's speech about how Earth and life would never actually be destroyed, just Humanity, through our actions, profoundly changed my perceptions about just why humans were on Earth (hey, I was in fifth grade, this was radical stuff).
Garcin:
If I really wanted to wrestle with the limits of the human psyche, I'd read Ann Coulter. All Quiet on the Western Front was a life-changing book for me too though. I think it was one of the first times I had no idea who to root for in the book, so I ended up just reading it and marvelling at the characters and their impossible situtations.
Alchemist:
These are some of the most profound literary catalysts of change in recent memory:
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
I could go on, but my point is probably made. Every book I read changes something about me, be it a monumental change that causes me to radically rethink my view of the world or a minute change that subtly alters the tint of my lens. Good or bad, profound or inane, long or short, they all affect me somehow.
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