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Topic: Has a Book Changed Your Life?
Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Fri 01/13/12 08:12 AM
Can't say any books have changed by life, that I'm aware of, though there are books that have had strong impacts on me from the first time I read them- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Little, Big - John Crowley Steel Beach - John Varley Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams Lord Of The Rings - JRR Tolkien Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry Geek Love - Katherine Dunn Imajica - Clive Barker Fuzzy Papers - H Beam Piper The Talisman, The Stand, The Long Walk, and, The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King The Alienist - Caleb Carr Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury Boy's Life, and Swan Song - Robert McCammon The Plague Dogs, Watership Down - Richard Adams The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan - Robert Shea, and Robert Anton Wilson Clan Of The Cave Bear - Jane M Auel Some short stories- The Rats In The Walls - HP Lovecraft The Lottery - Shirley Jackson On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks - Joe R Lansdale The Father-thing - Philip K Dick

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Fri 01/13/12 08:12 AM
Mingle2 is the book that changed my life. I'm waiting for the movie.

Bravalady Joined Sun 01/01/12 Posts: 1034	Fri 01/13/12 08:24 AM
Can't say any books have changed by life, that I'm aware of, though there are books that have had strong impacts on me from the first time I read them- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Little, Big - John Crowley Steel Beach - John Varley Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams Lord Of The Rings - JRR Tolkien Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry Geek Love - Katherine Dunn Imajica - Clive Barker Fuzzy Papers - H Beam Piper The Talisman, The Stand, The Long Walk, and, The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King The Alienist - Caleb Carr Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury Boy's Life, and Swan Song - Robert McCammon The Plague Dogs, Watership Down - Richard Adams The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan - Robert Shea, and Robert Anton Wilson Clan Of The Cave Bear - Jane M Auel Some short stories- The Rats In The Walls - HP Lovecraft The Lottery - Shirley Jackson On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks - Joe R Lansdale The Father-thing - Philip K Dick Hm, I was thinking science fiction for your list, but is it really more tilted toward horror? Have you read any of John Varley's short stories? Ever subscribed to IASFM?

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Fri 01/13/12 08:47 AM
I'm also a huge sci fi buff, yep, have read all of Varley's work. Haven't read it in awhile but I grew up on that magazine.

teadipper Joined Wed 10/19/11 Posts: 2732	Fri 01/13/12 11:09 AM
I used to subscribe to Asimov's (sp). I supposedly got it for my ex but I was the one who actually read it. LOL.

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Fri 01/13/12 11:32 AM
I should also throw in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series(as a kid that's what got me into the non-kid's books) and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend.

pkd1220 Joined Thu 05/24/07 Posts: 8318	Fri 01/13/12 11:58 AM
Lots of different books for different reasons. I'll mention a couple. Many make me thankful for the life that I live. A sure testiment that people should never give up -even though Sylvia Plath did. Glass Castle-Jannette Walls The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath A Boy Called It- Dave Pelzer

Bravalady Joined Sun 01/01/12 Posts: 1034	Fri 01/13/12 03:20 PM
I used to subscribe to Asimov's (sp). I supposedly got it for my ex but I was the one who actually read it. LOL. Always a good ploy.

EquusDancer Joined Sun 04/05/09 Posts: 6281	Fri 01/13/12 04:45 PM
Shoot, I wouldn't even know where to start. It's part of why I love books so much, is I always take something of them to heart.

afriQueen22 Joined Tue 10/25/11 Posts: 527	Sat 01/14/12 03:09 AM
Mingle2 is the book that changed my life. I'm waiting for the movie.

Leigh2154 Joined Sun 10/02/11 Posts: 16479	Sat 01/14/12 04:08 AM
Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying"..........I took it literally!!!!

mskimmi Joined Sat 01/14/12 Posts: 7	Sat 01/28/12 01:46 PM
angels in my hair is an amazing book. it really opened my eyes..and still does. life changing!! another was the book of man.. all about our genetics. much more intresting than any trashey novel..

JERMANICUS Joined Sat 01/28/12 Posts: 597	Sat 01/28/12 03:14 PM
I would have to say the greatest book I've ever read is "Man's Search For Meaning" by Victor Frankel. It made me realize that although there are problems in life sometimes things can always be much much worse.

michiganman3 Joined Mon 10/29/07 Posts: 14521	Sat 01/28/12 04:23 PM
Siddhartha- Hermann Hesse. Novelised version of the life of the Buddha.

ajagirl Joined Wed 10/20/10 Posts: 2256	Mon 01/30/12 11:46 AM
Tuesdays with Morrie ( Mitch Albom) I wouldn't say that this book changed my life but it inspires me.

Optomistic69 Joined Mon 10/10/11 Posts: 5173	Mon 01/30/12 12:04 PM
Never read a book that changed my mind. But to be honest I have read very few books...

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Sun 02/05/12 07:34 AM
maybe my Terres Audubon Encylopedia but really, it would be the Peterson series that really changed it because those were the books I'd take out into the field with me - particularly Eastern Birds & Wildflowers of N. A. and the Nat'l Geographic Birds of North America also learned so much from them - they completely transformed how I see the planet

Timmy878 Joined Thu 02/02/12 Posts: 34	Sun 02/05/12 07:48 AM
As weird as it is, 'The Celestine Prophecy' changed my views on life. It made me look at the world in a totally different way! An awesome book ,I would recommend it to anyone and everyone! :)

Ladylid2012 Joined Sun 07/05/09 Posts: 42269	Sun 02/05/12 07:53 AM
As weird as it is, 'The Celestine Prophecy' changed my views on life. It made me look at the world in a totally different way! An awesome book ,I would recommend it to anyone and everyone! :) Not weird at all..great book!

heavenlyboy34 Joined Fri 07/04/08 Posts: 17348	Sun 02/05/12 09:39 AM
Shogun, We(Мы), The Road To Serfdom, Anatomy of The State