"Omg! That book changed my life!"

Has there ever been a book you read that gave you a new outlook on something? Tell us about it here!


I just finished reading Drowning Anna it was a very sad book that made me cry so much:bawling: ! I was about a new girl in school and how quite bullying and touture lead to a beautiful smart girl attempting to kill herself. It is bery sad but a great book that tells the story from the point of view of the diary of Anna , her bestfriend, and the narrator. I think anyone should read this moving book!:)

The Best Little Boy In The World

It's a "coming out" book about how a man comes to terms with his homosexuality, how he tells his friends and family, how he makes his way in the world.

For me it removed that "I'm all alone in the world" feeling.

OOh, Bib I think I read a similar book called Dream Boy, I cried for hours!


Anyway, the book that changed my life was Ender's Game, It inspired me to write (and yes, i also cried.)

I never had a book that changed my life. But when people do I think its great!

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Originally Posted by hockeychick8792

Has there ever been a book you read that gave you a new outlook on something? Tell us about it here!


I just finished reading Drowning Anna it was a very sad book that made me cry so much:bawling: ! I was about a new girl in school and how quite bullying and touture lead to a beautiful smart girl attempting to kill herself. It is bery sad but a great book that tells the story from the point of view of the diary of Anna , her bestfriend, and the narrator. I think anyone should read this moving book!:)

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I couldn't read this book...my name is Ana and it made me sad to think that someone would do this kind of stuff. I still have it, so maybe I should read it.

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Originally Posted by THX-1138

i would have to say 1984 by george orwell,not that it changed my life just it had a huge impression on the way i think.

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I feel the same way about 1984. I only read it recently, but it definitely impacted me greatly. There are just some writers who are able to capture what you are thinking, and can articulate it so well. I think there are some truths that we know or have known deep within us, but it takes someone else to come along and put them into words.

I know it's a lightweight book but, Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

When I was a boy, an aunt gave me a little book I still own. It was a copy of Rudyard Kipling's epic poem "If". That little book had a great influence of my life and continues to be read when I am down, though I could probably quote it by heart now.

harry potter books changed my life , living with those beautiful charecters :)
thanks for the thread!

Now generally speaking I belive that everything you read leaves some kind of mark on who you are but there are books that you read that for some often unclear reason just change a part of who you are, how you see yourself and the world around you forever. Sometimes it is some big important work and yet sometimes it the silliest books that does it. Has anyone else ever had one of these? Can you remember exactly which book it was and why?
And more importantly would you go back and reread the book?

Besides the Bible, there are two in particular which I'll read again and again.
1. Lord of the Rings. The heroism and altruism in it has just imprinted on me and has inspired me even more to be loyal and true.

2. the Lord Peter mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers. Lots of fun and whimsy with just the right amount of brains and gallantry and a whole lot of references to Homer equals Lord Peter. Not to mention that every time I read it I get more out of it.

I will surely read some classics again in 10 years, but until then, Brothers Karamazov once per year is a must read. I am really fascinated with that book, questions of life, love, faith, religion and family.
There are many books which I've read in childhood for 5 times at least but those were all books for kids, I am not sure now.

humm...not quite my question... take me the 2 books that really stand out in my mindas dramatically altering the way I think or feel about something were strangley 2 children/teenage novels....A ring of Endless light by Madeleine L'Engle and A Tree grows in Brooklyn By Betty Smith. Both of them changed me definetly how I look at death anyway and something else although I couldnt pinpoint it. Now I have the chance to reread them but Im scared that if I do they wont be as amazing as I rember them being and Ill wind up hating the books.....

see the dilemma?


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Besides the Bible I would have to say I was most deeply influenced by The Last Temptation of Christ and Steppenwolf. I get someting new out of either one each time I pick them up. There are so many fine sentiments embedded in the text that I can open them at random and read an awe-inspiring quote for the day every time.



The Last Temptation of Christ-Nikos Kazantzakis
Steppenwolf-Hermann Hesse

i had never aspired to be writer until i had read the mayor of casterbridge by thomas hardy.

as for rereading it, i don't think i will as the cat's already out of the bag as they say.