Which is the most influenced book in your life?

Answer 1

when i was about fourteen years old i was in the local junk shop in the town where i grew up (besley's in merthyr tydfil) with my best friend.

my best friend was interested in old stuff. his house was full of hundred year old clocks, horn gramophones, and stuffed animals in dioramas made to look like they were still alive.

i wasn't very interested in old stuff, but i was just starting to get interested in books. at the back of the junk shop there were stacks of books at pocket money prices (nobody wanted old books, nobody ever has).

one of the books was goethe's 'faust' and christopher marlowe's 'faustus' bound up into a single volume. like lots of fourteen year olds i had an interest in the occult and i knew that these were plays about a famous magician - and that the marlowe play had been written only a few years after the real faust's death (and that marlowe had known personally the even more famous magician john dee).

i bought the book half out of boredom, and started the marlowe when i got it home that night.

there wasn't much about black magic in marlowe, but i had just never seen poetry like this before:

FAUSTUS. Where are you damn'd?

MEPHIST. In hell.

FAUSTUS. How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?

MEPHIST. Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:
Think'st thou that I, that saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?
O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands,
Which strike a terror to my fainting soul!

....

it struck me quite suddenly - and with a shock - that not only did i like poetry; i liked some quite difficult stuff.

this was a surprise to me: i had never thought of myself as clever before.

my life has never been the same since.

Answer 2

The bible? Yeah right. Not.

Rich Dad Poor Dad? - No way. That book says nothing but, look at me, I wrote a book and I got rich. The main premise of the book is to invest and not go into debt with credit cards. I could give you that advice and everything would be great...

My book, Running With Scissors. - entertaining, funny, and inspirational. It's about Augustus Burroughs the author...he led a crazy messed up life...mother was insane, dad was nuts....he was sent away to live with his mothers psychiatrist....

Long story short..he ends up making it....against all odds...and the stories on the way to making it are unreal...you'd never thing this guy would amount to anything...

It's a must read...trust me.

Answer 3

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom was a real faith builder and showed me that life is filled with endless possibilities. It also gave me a deeper understanding of suffering, compassion, and forgiveness.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain both made me realize what was great about literature and inspired me to write.

Answer 4

While Six Million Died
Atlas Shrugged
The Old Testament - original format
Gone With the Wind

Answer 5

If you mean: Which book most influenced your life?, then I would have to say the Bible, because it was "God Breathed."

Answer 6

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials,
JKR's Harry Potter and
Joanne Harris: Chocolat.

Answer 7

I'd like to say the Bible, but honestly I havent read that much of it.

I'd say that Malcom X and his books have influenced my life the most. I learned of the importance to read from him.

Answer 8

For the spiritual aspect: Gospel of Luke, John, Matthew and Mark

For practical living: "You can heal your life" by Louise L. Hay

For academia: "Getting Into 21st Century" by David K. Korten

For leisure: "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown

Answer 9

C.S. Lewis. I have adored him since I was 8 years old. Both his fiction and non. He can make even the most complex subject seem simple and easily defined. He probably has had more of an impact on my life than anyone except my parents.

Answer 10

King Fortis the Brave

Not only a great book full of fun and action, but it helped inspire me to be a teacher. Now I use it in my classroom and it is one of the only books I use that the students all become enthusiastic about.