On the subject of books...

[luckycate]

I was thinking about this last night... What is the most important book you've ever read? I don't mean the one that people tell you is important, but the one that really influenced you or changed the way you thought about something. Maybe I should rephrase it as the book that blew you away?

I'm not posting mine yet... Mostly because I'm having a

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[chillywill8e]

I can tell you which book it wasn't: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston. Fuck that book in its stupid ass.

Oh, I know! Forever by Judy Blume.

[luckycate]

You didn't like Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Why not?!

On a separate note- none of mine are written by Toni Morrison. I hate her.

[chillywill8e]

I had to write a 50 page research paper on that book and it was the most painful experience of my entire life.

[luckycate]

Anytime you're forced to over-analyze a book, it can totally ruin it! I wrote my term paper on The Sun Also Rises- which totally spurred my love for Hemmingway, but somehow I never got sick of it.

Their Eyes Were Watching God was one of the good books we read in my AP English class. My teacher, the infamous Jan Snyder-Hess, had a serious obsession with any book that was written by a black author. Some were good, others were obnoxious. But the worst was when she made us go hear Toni Morrison speak. That woman is evil!

[monocle_dan]

Night by Elie Wiesel.

You know me, and I hate reading books, but I feel like everyone should read this book.

Its not fun reading it, but it puts a lot of things in perspective. Life is fragile.

Angela purchased me a book that Matthew Mackahookeyhay or Mchaugnahey or however you spell it.....he said the book changed his life when he was on Oprah, so I need to read it........but that will take a lot of motivation. The guilt of Angela buying me a book that I havent read will eventually get to me.

I should read Uncle Harveys book, but its so long for me. Although I would encourage anyone to pick up any book by Harvey J Kaye.

I like To Kill a Mockingbird, but I would rather watch the movie.

I've been meaning to read A Cooks Tour by Anthony Bourdain.

Im spent.

Shashee Japan

Serial Carpens

[luckycate]

Night is absolutely on my list. To Kill a Mockingbird should be, I know it's on Mom's!

He wrote a book? What is it supposed to be about- getting high and playing the bongos naked at a neighbor's house? Oh wait, I just reread that. What book changed his life?

Uncle Harvey's latest book is good. The one he's currently writing about the four freedoms sounds excellent. You should make an effort to finish it! I read it, but I still cannot figure out the note he wrote me inside the cover! Even Phyllis couldn't decipher it!

Heinlein

[vahtryn]

Stranger in a Strange Land has affected me throughout my life since I read it. The religion topics it touches are really home hitting. Especially when grokking is finally understood.

It is a great balance of theist and atheist beliefs.

That's just off the top of my head, there are many others as I've ready way too many books.

Re: Heinlein

[luckycate]

I really wanted you to weigh in on this! After I get through my current books, I want to hear suggestions from you!

And I know I mentioned it before, but I really want you to read The Messiah. The description:

When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Now available in a Penguin Classic edition, Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult.

[luckycate]

It doesn't have to be a classic...just whatever made an impact on you.

What is A Hole in the Earth about?

[hottielawgirl]

the alchemist by paulo coelo

its a bit trite but very uplifting and makes you feel somehow safer that you don't know what is going with your life. i highly recommend it

or life of pi

or the ground beneath her feet by rushdie

wow i have so many more that have made an impact on me. i am a heavy reader (except right now while i am in school)

[chillywill8e]

Life of Pi is really very good.