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what book/s changed your life?

NigelDoes · 56-60, M
Every novel by Charles Bukowski. No one else can touch him.
NigelDoes · 56-60, M
Post Office is a great start as it is his first novel and one he started writing the week after he quit working at the post office for 11 years in Los Angeles. From about 1959 to 1970.
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@NigelDoes: Ty. I'll take a look. 🙂
NigelDoes · 56-60, M
You're very welcome.💜
Winterwanderer · 26-30, M
I'd say the books Hamlet, Moby Dick, & Frankenstein their words showed me that there's a world outside my own, outside my time; a world in history & a world to be. They opened my mind up to so much it was closed off to, but it also pushed me further out of my time & culture, & now I'm stranger than I was, to myself and my kind.
wonderland63893 · 26-30, F
I don't know if it changed my life, but it made me see things in a different way. It's true story called, A piece of cake by Cupcake Brown
Rafa369 · 22-25, M
sounds like the writer based the novel on her name. neat.
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
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@NigelDoes: Yeah. It truly changed the way I looked at everything. I was 16 at the time of reading it. Read it in one sitting if I recall correctly. It was just gripping, powerful and ... there was so much in there about life. I already loved books and reading by that stage, but loved them even more after that.
NigelDoes · 56-60, M
Beautifully stated. You should think about writing novels yourself!
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@NigelDoes: Thank you. I have written and love writing, but I don't think I have a book in me. I'm in awe of those who do.
Soxs45 ·
it's going to sound weird. I read a book called thinner than thou when I was 15 changed my life.
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Quo Vadis
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Canticle for Leibovitz
I think I read all of Alan Watt's books
A whole bunch of Chinese philosophy
The Goosebump books and the Fear Street series of books
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billstickers · 36-40, M
Fear of Heights by Eileen Dover
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Carrie, 1984, Brave New World, The Alchemist
Rafa369 · 22-25, M
yeah, i've read paolo coelho's the alchemist... that one's good
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@pitchy28: I first read it a few years ago. It was interesting but it didn't really connect to me. Now that I'm going through a lot of personal crap it has a lot more meaning.
TJNewton · M
None but catch22 is the best book I ever read

 
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