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What was the book that had a significant impact on your life?
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Nov 10, 2023 09:49AM
A Wrinkle in Time
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Crying in H-mart; somehow helped me fix my relationship with my mother.
I keep my exoskeletons to myself. I’m not usually a sci-fi fan whatsoever but I love the authors writing style and have actually had correspondence with them now on multiple occasions :)
when breath becomes air by paul kalanithi 100%
Cleo wrote: "Crying in H-mart; somehow helped me fix my relationship with my mother."That's always good. Now I'm curious. I've read the blurb and thought No, but if it's actually helpful...may have to check it out.
The Girls Ive Been by Tesse Sharpe… I litterally CANNOT begin to describe how much i just ADOREE that book 😭😭
also not counting religious books anything by Dostoevsky and Orhan Pamuk it s explicit and implicit at the same time
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion. When my partner of 41 1/2 years died, I needed a guide to help me deal with the rupture that caused in my life, and this book (her husband keeled over dead at the kitchen table after 40 years) helped me with the strange rewiring of my brain that his death caused. It's hard to think of Didion as writing a "how to" book, but that's what this is for the surviving spouse.
It's silly but in my adulthood it's a court of thorns and roses. I find Feyre's character incredible and she helped me a lot.
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado changed my life. I believe everyone should read it.
It is difficult to choose The book I have recently been impressed with is "The Master" by Colm Toibin
The Ugly Duckling by Andersen, Hans ChristianIn my opinion this fairy story shows how society that live in small closed space hates anybody who is different from the members of this society. If you are in the society of stupid ducks they never realize that you are a beautiful noble swan. Therefore, it is important to find people like you are.
I love “Adventures of Cipollino” that is a fairy tale of Italian writer Gianni Rodari, written in 1951. In the form of a fairy tale "Cipollino", the Italian writer Gianni Rodari shows the process of maturation of the revolutionary mood in society, when the tyranny and pressure of the rulers are so high that population can no longer tolerate bullying and oppression. The rulers and the population seem to live in different worlds. The rulers do not understand population who live under the pressure of their unjust laws and decrees, in poverty and deprivation. Impunity and absolute power gives rulers a sense of the endless patience of the society. I think that one of the most important ideas of this book is that good conquers evil. Also this story shows that people is able to win by uniting.
For me, it would have the be Allegiant by Veronica Roth. I'm still very connected to the book and the plot. Once it drew me it I wouldn't put it down.
Gary wrote: "I am going to be old school here - The Bible"You go man! Gotta agree it's the #1 absolute best seller out there and it's by favorite thing to read!
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Atomic Habitsnever been a huge fan of self-help books, but this one definitely changed my life for the better
“A Wrinkle in Time” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”
The Prophet (K Gibran) is my bible!
I’m going to go with Delilah Green Doesn't Care because — while this is only sorta the point of the book — it made me seriously rethink my family, and I guess a lot of things I had just never questioned.
Akshay wrote: "There's not a singular but a couple:Dune - I was young, my Dad gave it to me and that was a big deal since it was a very "older people" book for me at that age... but it radically bombarded my pe..."
yea, Hitchhiker's Guide; another good one for me
Andrusca wrote: "the little prince:)"Loved and still do!
The Harry Potter books will always have a special place in my heart. I started them when I really needed an escape from reality and being able to immerse myself in that world was a godsend.
The line, "I would rather lose my virginity to a tampon than to a man", still rings in my head from time to time and it's been almost 10 years since I first read Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions.
a court of thorns and roses, believe it or not. it was the book that properly got me into romance and gave me the idea for the book i’ve now nearly finished reading.
The book ' The fault in our stars' taught me to cherish things while they last . Dont waste your life .
I think King and Koontz made the biggest impact on the type of reading material I would gravitate toward as an adult. I do not recall a reading "experience" that changed my life per se. I read The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich as a kid behind my parents' back and they had a fit about it. I remember it is the first time I knew such evil existed in the world.You might say that was the time I left playing with toy soldiers behind.
I second the five people you meet in heaven!The book that always comes to mind on a question like this is Stoner by William Stoner. I found it at a half price books and it’s stuck with me word for word years after reading it. So beautifully written, and really makes you think about your life, why we’re here, and how we’re supposed to spend the time we have. It’s fiction, but feels like real life.
One of the books that had a big impact on me is The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho...ever since I read it, it made me want to become an alchemist myself...⚜️
A Child Called It. I read that book in elementary school and it really humbled me because as bad as my home life was growing up, it wasn’t THAT bad and it reminded me that some people had it worse and I needed to be more grateful. Also taught me to be kind to all of my classmates because you never know what they can be going through at home. I still try to keep a similar mindset in my adult life 🤷🏽♀️
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Its what jump started my love of reading.
Pisces51 wrote: "I think King and Koontz made the biggest impact on the type of reading material I would gravitate toward as an adult. I do not recall a reading "experience" that changed my life per se. I read The ..."Why did your parents have a problem with it?
Tkeyah (tkeyahreads) wrote: "A Child Called It. I read that book in elementary school and it really humbled me because as bad as my home life was growing up, it wasn’t THAT bad and it reminded me that some people had it worse ..."If you'd like to read another memoir of an abusive childhood, and one I thought was better than A Child Called It, I recommend Shot In the Heart by Mikal Gilmore. It had a similar effect on me that A Child Called It had on you.
The book that changed my life most was Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which is about animal and environmental activism through food choice. I wouldn't have become vegan if I hadn't read it and I've been vegan for thirty years.
I have read Being and Nothingness at least 20 times over the years. I've read The Lord of the Rings around 21 times. They are probably the most significant books in my life.Though, it was the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, especially the at the earth's core books that turned me into a reader sometime in late elementary school.
I was totally changed following my first reading of "To Kill a Mockingbird." I was quite young and naive as to the injustices of the larger world. My world did not bring racism to my door, as it did with Scout and her brother. Having your eyes opened through literature to conditions and practices that are unjust and cruel is a very good thing. For me, empathy and later activism began with that novel.
Bridges of Madison County = final decision to divorce and live free
Deborah wrote: "Bridges of Madison County = final decision to divorce and live free"Oh that is great. I hope it liberated a lot of women from bad marriages.
The book that had an impact on my life/ reading journey was the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel. A movie was made of the first book in 1986.
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The Fault in Our Stars (other topics)Delilah Green Doesn't Care (other topics)
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