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Books that changed your life
Dr Love Fuzz:
A Millon Little Pieces by James Frey
I don't care what anyone says; 100% true, 50% true, whatever, this is one of the greatest stories ever told.
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
Once again, say what you will, this book is fucking hilarious.
and finally....
English As Second Fucking Language changed my life because now I can be expert swearter...er.
zombietrudy:
lost boy lost girl is definately my favourite book. It was the first and only book so far that when I finished it, I was just left speechless and in shock.
Also really good books:
False Memory. Green Angel. Go Ask Alice. Choke. Hideaway. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Fight Club. 'Salem's Lot. Floating Dragon. Servants of Twilight. Dragon Tears.
Kids who read succeed! -thumbs up-
KharBevNor:
Thinking on things more, Illuminatus! has changed a lot more than how I see literature. It's more changed how I actually percieve reality, as well as probably being the final kick that pushed me towards serious anarchism as a political philosophy. It's also basically helped me make more sense of some of the stranger Philip K Dick books, which also, I suppose, have shaped me a great deal. And, I'll probably nominate 'Bill The Galactic Hero' by Harry Harrison as well.
And though they're not books, I think I'll say Pinters No Mans Land and A Midsummer Nights Dream and Macbeth. Also, if I'm going to talk about plays, I might as well talk about poetry. There's only two poems I can really think of: Kubla Khan by Coleridge and Alone by Poe.
no one special:
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This book just... broke my mind. I read it in 12th grade - I'd been reading ravenously since I was 3, but this was the one book that changed the way I looked at literature forever. I honestly didn't know how to explain it - I didn't know you could do what he did with words. The novel has a fecundity, a fertility about it that no author has ever matched, a quality that I can neither describe nor explain.
Scytale:
The three books I can think of are
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, I read this in my year 12 English class and I don't know how to describe it, after reading the final chapter I remember putting the book down in stunned disbelief and walking around my street trying to clear my head as the last words of the book just kept echoing through my head "Alex has like Groweth up". It made me question everything I thought I believed in, fate, free-will, christianity, justice, morales everything. It really shook me up like nothing else I've ever experienced.
- The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard, I guess after reading Clockwork Orange, I was pretty confused with the world for a while and I threw myself pretty heavily into philosophy, I became pretty obsessed with existentialism and was chewing my way through everything I came accross, Camus, Satre all that stuff. Somewhere down that path I stumbled upon this work. Very powerful and well written, this I guess was the final straw that convinced me to stop going to church.
-Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, this is easily the most well written and thought provoking book I have ever read. In parts of it seems as if Zarathustra is addressing me directly, I remember reaching part 2 and the chapter "Of Self Overcomming" I read the line: "And this secret spake Life herself unto me. "Behold," said she, "I am that which must ever surpass itself". And it just like that a light clicked on in my brain, everything fell into place, The will to power, Eternal re-occurance, love of fate, it all just made sense. After a few years of questioning everything around me Nietszche made it all make sense, put everything into it place with just one sentence. Amazing.
And none of it would have happened if my English teacher hadn't assigned Anthony Burgess....
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