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Books that changed your life
Johnny C:
Haunted didn't really radically affect me. But it is an interesting book, I'll grant you that.
Dr. Feelbad:
The Shining, by Stephen King. I didn't think a book could be scary until I read this.
Scandanavian War Machine:
In The Face of My Enemy by Joseph H. Delaney
its not a popular book and hes not a famous author. It is a sci-fi novel. but its also more than that. i read it when i was very young and it affected me very much and i never forgot about it. and then, about a month ago, i found a first edition (circa 1984) with absolutely no damage done to it for four dollars on amazon.com. this book is out of print and i doubt a large number were ever printed to begin with so finding one like that on accident made my day. i just started reading it again and already i feel better about my job, my friends, and my life in general.
i would recomend this book to just about anyone. however, let it be known that its not a truly "great" book; its short sci-fi, its cheesey, but i love it.
bujiatang:
it is difficult to say that a book changed me, most of them add something but dont really revise the way I go about my business or do math.
Books that enlightened the way I was going about things would be like Saussure's Course in General Linguistics. It was actually a very silly book that changed how I thought of good and evil: Good Omens.
cakeandsoda!!:
Jonathan Safran Foer's two books, Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Some people say his writing style is unique in a pretentious sort of way, but if it is, I really don't mind, because his pretentiousness makes for some really beautiful phrases and imagery!
And it takes a seriously strong person to not cry at least once in 'Extremely Loud...'! It starts off sort of awkward and jerky, but there's a sense of everything building up, and it really all comes together at the climax and afterwards there's just an emotional downpour and complete sadness, ohh I cried and cried.
The book that really, really! changed me, is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. It actually got me into James Dean movies, because I read that he loved the book and treated it like his Bible, hee!
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