Actually two...Catcher in the Rye but more than that Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Actually two...Catcher in the Rye but more than that Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Tess of the D'Urbervilles and the Vegetarian Philosophy
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
the whole boatload of sensitive!
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.
all the books i read affects on me,but i think the persian poetry book ,Divan Hafez ,was the best
Her heart is played like well worn strings; in her eyes the sadness sings; of one who was destined for better things.
I read Harry Potter in first grade, and from then on I loved reading, so that probably has influenced me the most. P.G. Wodehouse has also impacted my entire outlook and writing style. I can now see little irreverent jibes to make everywhere and I often burst out laughing after someone has made some deep, heartfelt speech. I don't take much seriously anymore. Oh, and Sherlock Holmes rekindled a childish love of heroism in a more (or I think so) mature fashion.
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"I don't know whether your grasp of theology or meteorology is more appalling.
I guess I'll go light some candles around the tobaggon and beg for mercy."
~Bill Watterson
"In certain times, trying times, desperate times, profanity offers a relief denied even to prayer."
~Mark Twain
"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of someone who had searched for the leak in life's gas pipe with a lighted candle"
~P.G. Wodehouse
For posterity it has to Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. By no means the first Tarzan book I read (an abridged version of Tarzan and the City of Gold claims that honor) but it fascinated and delighted a young fifth grader and though many years later some of Burroughs books ring hollow the early stuff stills touches the heart.
"Bah. To Kill a Mockingbird isn't very good at all... so many flat characters. "
You must have been reading a different book pal. Even the minor characters like Braxton Bragg Underwood are complex. Even the vignettes like the one of Cousin Ike have a background.
Der Steppenwolf
How could have Hesse known me so well? It was a relief knowing I wasn't alone.
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
One book that taught me the most, surely... I still use those skills today.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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what book had the most lasting affect on you?
I can understand that. Me too. You probably use the skills to great...uh...effect.Originally Posted by Scheherazade
One book that taught me the most, surely... I still use those skills today.
I suppose the book that had the most lasting affect on me would have to be Lord of the Flies. Of all the books that I've ever read, this one really made me question humanity and their overall inherent personalities. Though the author, in my opinion, made it seem as if people are inherently evil, the overall thinking provoked made me come to believe in the inherent goodness of humanity. People may do terrible things, and even more heinous things if it is a group effort, but most people are good.
First and foremost Catcher in the rye, its my all time favorite. So many life lessons, it can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Just an all around great coming of age story. In a Close second would have to be 1984 - Orwell. Both novels changed the way I perceive every day life. A book that may not have had the most lasting affect on me but still had an emotional affect on me was Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. The prison beatings and conditions described actually caused me to have extremely vivd nightmares. It was not a horor novel by any means, it was actually quite the contrary. It was just so well written, that I actually felt as if I were a part of the book
. . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.
The Sound and the Fury literally made me think of life in a whole new way. It was so eye opening in both its use of experimental prose and fresh, heavy plot.
Lassie, bjb
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis
Doris Lessing's 5 book series CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE:
Martha Quest
A Proper Marriage
A Ripple from the Storm
Landlocked
The Four-Gated City
Primarily, I like the writer, her vision and her voice, though as a stylist, she's usually not very exciting. But these books were compelling for me because they speak to many interests: history, travel, womanhood, cultures, social and political conflict, sexuality.
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Roald Dahl books. I always liked reading, but when I was nine or ten a teacher read us the Afrikaans version of George's Marvellous Medicine, and I was hooked. I devoured a few of Roald Dahl's books after that, and the passion/addiction started
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