hmmm...I really think so,thank you !
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hmmm...I really think so,thank you !
Hi, new here too. I think you write the book that changes your life yourself.
Very well said, Glenys; I cannot agree more. Whether with fiction or non-fiction, through writing, I think, one gains a further understanding of one's own beliefs, opinions, and logic, of course, depending on the amount of thought one uses. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Glenys
I agree, every book has had some sort of impact, albeit, not always a positive one. I'm in love with Catch 22 and 1984. Awesome reads.
I am reading a book called "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About". It's an informational book that I bought a few days ago. Truly, read this book, you'll never want to eat anything from the supermarkets or take drugs from your doctor again. It's a real eye-opener.
Is this anything like Fast Food Nation? If so, I'll have to check it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigur Rose
The first would have to be Catcher In The Rye because it was the first book that captured how I felt as a teenager...the most awkward period of your life, when you try to figure out what it is to be a man. Some of us, like Holden Caulfield and myself, struggled greatly with it. I probably would have killed myself out of a "Oh, no one understands!" type of mentality...but that book really saved me.
The other would have to be James Joyce's Ulysses. It broke down the nature of time itself....its an epic of a single day, an idea that blew me away. It taught me how rich each day, each moment of life is with detail and insight...you simply have to be bold enough to search for it and let yourself be inspired. I've always "feared" difficult literature like Joyce, I hated the feeling of not keeping up with the author. But after getting through the 876 pages and the phonebook-sized companion that explains all of Joyce's allusions, I feel like I can take on anything.
This was also around the time of my decision to be a writer...I had been looking for an "icon" to look to in the hard times and I found Joyce.
I agree with Sloegin and Nerd that every book we read has an impact on us. I remember when I read Fowl's French Leutenant's Woman, I felt that I aquired some sphynx like traits like the main heroine of the book. At one time, when I was hopelessly and desperately in love I identified myself with Fleur from The Forsyte Saga, by Galthworthy. Thanks to Adso for the question. I enjoyed reading the answers finding out what books influence others.
This may be a dumb question, but I stumbled on this book at my local library today. Why was it banned originally? I had not heard of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by LoneProspector
Ulysses includes sexual descriptions which prompted a ban against the book in 1921.
At a trial in 1933 US District Judge John M. Woolsey issued a ruling on December 6, declaring that the book was not pornographic and therefore could not be obscene.
Thanks for this reply. The book I looked at at our local library, had copies of the judges ruling in the front. I did not take the time to read them as they were several pages long, but my curiousity was up for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calo
The book 'Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone' was the first book I loved very much and it changed me very much and developed a reading habbit in me. Insitead of wasting my time now or feeling bored, I reads a book. Now i like many books which have changed me a little like Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudist.
The one dramatic book I've read that has changed my life, and the lives of most people who read it is the Bible. It is the Truth. :nod:
Honestly, I can say the same, that The Bible has changed me quite significantly, but I feel the same toward most other religious texts I have read, including The Bhagavad Gita, parts of The Koran, A Buddhist Bible by Dwight Goddard, but very little to no parts of The Necronomicon, despite, sometimes, one can strengthen his/her own faith, beliefs, or logic through disagreement of someone or a text.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adelheid
Gulliver's Travels has changed my perspective of the world greatly. It made me much more sceptical of ourselves. I feel quite at a loss when I finished, because it so utterly crushed my former views of people. It is a thorough discussion and investigation of the foibles and vices of the human race. It seemed that there was little difference between the human beings and those wild animals. Although now I think of it, I find the opinion of the author somewhat over heated, but at that time, I was really endowed with such disbelief of ourselves that the impression made may be indelible in my lifetime.