A Meme of Sorts...

[thatguyv]

So, in the course of working on something real-life-lit related (I do write for purposes other than make-believe-land, you know), I've come to a bit of a question I'd like some solid perspectives on before continuing on the piece I'm working on. Additionally, I'm feeling motivated (and secure enough) to create a filter for things I write that exist

Comments

[evadevillain]

I'd like in.

What?
And I think the last thing that moved me was Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.

How?
Because of the strength of his presentation and voice, the tongue in cheek aren't we funny little apes attitude made what is normally a horrifying storyline hilarious.

Why?
The facets of life he puts to the test and in this novel and ultimately holds responsible for the end of the world. Were put to the test not only in the book, but in me as I read it.

[jaedyth]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, and Smack by Melvin Burgess are the books that hit me hardest. Songs...too many to count. Music is my chosen medium of expression so many of them hit me in moving ways all the time.

The first book is about a young man who has all the wrong emotional reactions to things and worries everyone around him because of it. It's a story of his life as a teenager and his discoveries about himself and his past, and why he is who he is, and why life's been the way it is.

The second follows in the same theme, but it offers a more visceral take on a lot of things that have impacted my own life in some ways...probably not quite as deeply as they do in the novel/film.

The last presents, in spite of being a book intended for young adults, a perspective on the gradual descent into addiction and how utterly life altering and sad it can be, even when you end the cycle and try to start over. I recommend all three of them.

[impernious]

Hrm... I would like in on your writing thing, because I like reading and writing and feel like I might be a pretty good contructive critic.

I will have to get back to you on the things that have "moved me" as they have fallen out of my head at the moment... can't say it has moved me much if I can't remember it, but then again I was never good at remembering anything.

[faerchylde]

I'd love in on the filter.

Literature:
Johnny Got His Gun - Moved me to near fits of anger... a suppossed anti war book.. not so in my opinion.. It struck me as a book about medical limits, and ethics, morals.. Descriptively very well written.

Schindler's List - Made me cry.. You could really identify with the entirety of the book...

[childofchaos]

I'd like in on the writing filter, says the unemployed writing major lol

I have two bits of literature:
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
(One day I shall read it in French!) One of my first books as a child. It's all about changing your point of view.

And...
The Fall by Camus
Selfism at it's greatest.