Which Book Changed Your Life?

I like spin-off threads all too much….here I go.


Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day by Judith Viorst

and,

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

My Antonia by Willa Cather

as a kid:

the little house by virginia lee burton

the anne of green gables series by l.m. montgomery

as an adult:

waiting to exhale by terry mcmillian (if you're a guy you wouldn't understand)

i know there are others, but i can't quite think of them. maybe some of the russian stuff i read?

Noam Chomsky's What Uncle Sam Really Wants.

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First book that I ever took out of the Adult section of the library. Had no idea at the time that it wasn't your average adult section book. :D

Last Exit To Brooklyn

When you get to the page, click on the book and you can read the first several pages. Flawd, you have to wait another year. ;) (j/k - I was even younger when I read it.)

My second book was One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Read both many years before the movies.

Believe me, after that, my life was changed for good! Turned into a major bookworm and never turned back.

Chemistry Problem Solver

that was the end of my career in science.

Didn't so much change my life as much as really help me understand that it could still be cool to read books; "On The Road" Jack Kerouac

on book in 6t hgrade got me into fantasy….cant remember…by susan cooper?
jurasic park
simple simon(the movie mercury rising w/ bruce wilis….)

Watership Down. The first big book I read as a kid with no pictures and over 300 pages long. For years I would reread the book annually. Haven't in a while, but should.

The Fermata by Nicholson Baker

The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women

many more…

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the name of the rose by umberto eco

elmer gantry by sinclair lewis

the digging-est dog by al perkins

history of the american people by paul johnson

the Holy Bible, assorted authors

"On The Road" - Jack Kerouac
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - Robert Pirsig
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" - Tom Wolfe

"You're either on the bus, or you're off the bus."

Richard Dawkins: The selfish gene

Oh and the joy of sex……

Didn't change my life; but Good Vibrations Guide to Sex at least made me realize their were others who thought like me.

The Bible….my religous knowledge teacher threw it at me for talking in class and he got me right on the ear with the corner of the book. NEVER spoke in religous knowledge class again.

Enid Blyton series, loved em!

"Stig of the dump" A great kids book about a boy who befriended another boy that lived in a trash heap. I can't find the damn thing anywhere, tried to find it for Kathleen and will try again for Rory.

"Epaminondas" Another great kids book about a little boy who lived with his grandmother and was always getting into trouble. Can't find that one either but it was probably taken out of print because in todays world is not pc.

Grown up books are just too damn serious. I read biographies/memoirs/non-fiction only. Just finished one about Hitler and now reading David Beckham's autobiography then Roy Keane's next.

Pussy, King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker