The most influential book you ever read (NO SPAM)

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:03 pm

The most influential book you ever read

Just that: name *one* book that has had the greatest impact on your life.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:12 pm

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The old books are cool after all

EDIT- In response to fables second point, it greatly expanded my book collection, as until that time. If a book had classic written on it, stayed away from it. Now I'm reading some amazing stuff, well was reading until a while ago.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:22 pm

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer.

Raistlin · Post by **Raistlin** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:22 pm

Hmm *One* book .. That's a tough one since most of the books i've read have certain impacts on me ..

I say , "The Catcher In The Rye" by J.D.Salinger ..

I don't know.. I feel happy when i think of that book . Maybe it's because i remember comparing myself with the protagonist (Holden) when i read it ..

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:41 pm

Positive or negative impact?

Positive: Douglas Adams, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Negative: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:49 pm

Note, I don't mean the book you liked best, but the book that has had the greatest impact on you.

Raistlin · Post by **Raistlin** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:53 pm

Originally posted by Aegis
Positive or negative impact?

Positive: Douglas Adams, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Negative: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

I haven't read any Conrad , but i am told its hard to read .. My uncle was trying to translate a piece of him into Turkish , he's been trying since a year now .. Seemed hopeless to me ..

humanflyz · Post by **humanflyz** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 9:01 pm

1984 by George Orwell

EMINEM · Post by **EMINEM** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 10:09 pm

Not including the Bible, it would have to be "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoyevsky.

Azeroth · Post by **Azeroth** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 11:11 pm

Röde Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson

Delacroix · Post by **Delacroix** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 11:35 pm

Fable, choose One book is torture. May I break the rules?
please..............two?

Tistou les Pouces Verts-Maurice Druon.

This is probably the most influential because was the first Book, real book, I ever read. But it was an adaption.

Fragments d'un discours amoureux- Roland Barthes

Before read it, I don't knew a book could go that far, in identification with the reader, in views, in clarity; Well the theme could not be less generic.

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 11:51 pm

Animal Farm by George Orwell

I first read it when I was in Grade 6 (12y.o.).

Beldin · Post by **Beldin** » Thu Jul 04, 2002 1:58 am

DUNE

No worries,

Beldin

Eerhardt · Post by **Eerhardt** » Thu Jul 04, 2002 2:35 am

Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Yurevitch Lermontov)
... even a jerk can rise to the occasion...

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Thu Jul 04, 2002 2:39 am

Originally posted by fable
Note, I don't mean the book you liked best, but the book that has had the greatest impact on you.

Did my strange selection call for this?

I will explain my reasoning for To Your Scattered Bodies Go. When I was in school I hated to read more than anything, I would take paddlings to get out of being forced to read. In the 9th grade I had a english teacher who took a different appoarch and let me choose a book. I picked To Your Scattered Bodies Go (For the art work on the cover) and from that day forward I could not get enough of books. One book and a teacher with a different outlook is most likely the greatest impact. It gave me a chance to learn more..(A chance I would have missed if I had been forced)

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Thu Jul 04, 2002 4:03 am

No one book has had tremendous influence on my life - several have had some.

The most one would be Machiavelli', The Prince

Gotta re-read it again soon.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Thu Jul 04, 2002 4:09 am

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. It didn't have much impact on me (being 6 years old at the time), but I enjoyed it so much I went out and read the rest of the Narnia series, which in turn sparked off a reading addiction that's going strong to this day.

Azmodan · Post by **Azmodan** » Thu Jul 04, 2002 6:30 am

Animal Farm by George Orwell

i had nightmares for ever and ever..... and then maby a little baby rebel was born!

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Thu Jul 04, 2002 6:43 am

Originally posted by Beldin
DUNE

No worries,

Beldin

Great book, but when whe're talking about an impact from a book,
i will have to say the bible.
I'm not religios and my parents aren't either, but i went to a katholic school, and there i came in contact with the bible, never read it untill much later.
I think the book is (almost) pure fiction, but it contains alot of "wise lessons to be learned".
What i don't like about the bible is that I get the feeling is "pushes" the religion on people (and that's one of the points why I don't like the church)

Other books with impact are "das kapital" because of the intresting other point on life and economy, and "mein kampf"

I just wanted to read that book (no i'm not a nazi-sympatizer(sp?)) and see what brings a man to those thoughts. very werid and very hard to read, but it makes you think about certain things, just like all the other books i mentioned above

I made my "I"fat to point out that it's about my opinion cause i know that the bible and mein kampf can be a sensitive point, if one of the mods (or members) has a problem with this post, please point that out, and i will edit it as soon as possible

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Jul 04, 2002 8:30 am

Did my strange selection call for this?

Not at all, @Weasel. It was a response that included a positive and negative choice.