OK, thanks. The name, like Borges, is familiar to me & I know a little bit about them but I have only really read Marquez. I'll get around to Rulfo!Originally Posted by marcolfo
OK, thanks. The name, like Borges, is familiar to me & I know a little bit about them but I have only really read Marquez. I'll get around to Rulfo!
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By a million miles Hamlet was the most mindblowing and complete piece of literature i have ever read.
Why do those old theads keep getting resurrected?
The Power of One was probably the first book that really struck me on a personal note and inspired me to keep reading. Also, Siddhartha was very enlightening.
With the understanding that "books that changed my life" are not necessarily the best ones I have read:
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
The Brothers Karamazov (Really I should just say all of Dostoyevsky's novels more or less equally)
The Lord of the Rings
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
I take it back. The novels listed above really are among the best things of their kind I have read. The Recognitions is my all-time favorite of the bunch.
The Women's Room. oh boy. Read it at 18. Come to think of it, that book is probably the reason I'm not married ...and won't be making that mistake any time soon.
Thanks to a book called The sword of Shannara. ever since i read that my thought patterns and way of thinking while writing have been different. The book also raised my expectations of all other books. =P
"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Changed my political ideology.
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There is hope, but not for us.
my list is rather predictable but these are some of the first books i read as a child and if it wasn't for these ones, i would have never found the joy of reading:
1) Little Prince
2) To Kill a Mockingbird
3) Catcher In The Rye
4) Centennial by James Michener
5) Dragonlance series
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