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The most influential book you ever read

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

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.

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 ..

Positive or negative impact?

Positive: Douglas Adams, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Negative: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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

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 ..

1984 by George Orwell

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

Röde Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson

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.

DUNE

No worries,

Beldin

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

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)

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.

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.

Animal Farm by George Orwell


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

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

Did my strange selection call for this?

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