Is there a book you read that had an impact on your life? For me I read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich at the age of 12 at an advanced reading program taught by a survivor
To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Pit and The Pendulum.
Go Ask Alice.
Huckleberry Finn.
My Secret Garden.
Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Helter Skelter.
Sophie's Choice.
I've never read Sophie's Choice, but I like the rest. Well, like is probably not the right word for Helter Skelter, but it was intriguing in a morbid sense.
This is an interesting and disturbing look at the other side of the Holocaust. It's enlightening in that every day German men who had mundane regular jobs willingly murdered innocent men, women, and children.
Don't read this if you want to believe that most German citizens were unaware of what the Nazis were doing.
Thanks for the req, put it in my wish list & will order it for my girl, along with the Howard Zinn books she's supposed to be working on.
I read on average 4 hours each and every day. I love it, it gives me so much new perspective. I can not point to any specific book or title that I truly would say has made such a huge impact. They all do. I especially look forward to the next book. I often think that Ill soon run out of books to read. Then along comes that book title and author that captivates my mind.
Zen guitar - Philip toshio sudo
How to talk dirty and influence people - Lenny Bruce
The tyranny of malice - Joseph berke
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The stranger - Albert Camus
The unbearable lightness of being - Milan kundera
ZAP ! Comix
.....probably more, but that's right off....
I've met 2 survivors. Gerta Klein was one and oddly the man who played LaBeau on Hogans Heroes, is also a survivor.
BOTH had an impact.
I do like Wayne Dyer.
I find it strange that my favorite is, Meals Donald Walsch and his trilogy Conversations with God.
It seems offensive, but, they're NOT religious. Which is what caught me off guard. As,a recovering Catholic, it SET ME FREE.
I don't believe in God per se, it's more of an energy thing. It's beyond the capacity of my humanness, & im ok with that today.??
Most books I have read I IMPACTED INTO MY LIFE. ...I drew from such books not drawn into such books....the notable exceptions are Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING imposing upon me a duty to learn how chemistry profiteering is evil and widespread testing is necessary to protect life and habitat. ...also JUDGEMENT DAY: My Life With Ayn Rand how the idea of profiteering itself is evil proven negatively by the fornicating authors, mentor, students and willing victim spouses. ...how FED CHAIRMAN ALAN GREENSPAN himself is incapable of honesty blinded by greed
Nathan Blumenthal alias Nathaniel Brandon INSTITUTE admitted in his book he fucked Ayn Rand 12 times ripping her clothes off AT HER INSTRUCTION TO HIM with full permission from Frank O'Connor and Mrs Barbara Brandon but NOT MISTRESS PATREECIA
Recently read “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” edited by Bandy Lee. Twenty seven psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president. Scary, is all I can say. Currently reading “A Higher Loyalty” by James Comey. The books themselves may not have an impact on my life, but their common subject certainly does!
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanne Winterson
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
She Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Sacrament by Clive Barker
These are just the first few that leap to mind. I know there are probably others.
@Millie I think I saw it before I read the actual book. The movie is excellent. It was the first of many John Irving novels I've loved over the years though.
The Songs of Distant Earth. The Phantom Tollbooth. Back and forth at the same time. Was 6 years old.
I read Mein Kampf and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich at 12. On my own. No reading program involved.
@Millie I was interested in European history and German history in particular. I remember watching the world at war and I found the holocaust shocking. So, I read both books and I had a hard time getting through them. I was twelve. But it was worth it.
@Millie WW1 was the opening shot in WW2. If anything could be said was the cause of WW2, it was Versailles. We didn’t make that mistake a second time. Modern Europe was a direct result. It too bad so many people had to die.
@Millie I was horrible
There are quite a few: One that springs to mind is 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by Robert M Pirsig. The original edition was a bit perplexing at the end, so read the updated edition which makes things a bit clearer.