Ever read something that totally blow your mind and changed you forever?
2006-08-16 16:38:40 · 25 answers · asked by aishah 5 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Jack kerouac in general, But On the Road changed my life forever after. This made me see that i wasnt the only one who thought and expressed a love for life and understood every word as if it were my own. Old angel midnight again i saw i could express myself however i felt, Henry millers 1984 was monumental also The Doors of perception and Heaven and hell By Aldous Huxley also hit me right at home. There are many others but i wanted to give you some of my real impacts. Also the scripture of the golden eternity by Kerouac was very influential. Alot of the Beats...
2006-08-16 16:45:55 · answer #1 · answered by lifecircle9 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like the following books and the views expressed has definitely made an impression on me:
1. The man by Irving wallce 2. The fountain head by Ayn Rand
3. The chariot of the Gods by Eric van Danicken 4. The fever by Robin cook 5. The final diagnosis by Arthur hailey and 6. Future shock by Alvin Toffler.
VR
2006-08-17 02:23:53 · answer #2 · answered by sarayu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.
Mary Pipher, PhD.
I read it long after high school but it helped me understand some of the things that happened to me while I was growing up. It is an excellent preparation for motherhood and the competition between parents and society (well, media) for the raising of children.
2006-08-17 00:17:30 · answer #3 · answered by phattissimo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catcher in the Rye.
What a great book, I read it when i was about the age of the character in the book and it really hit home because I was going through some of the same problems
2006-08-16 23:43:37 · answer #4 · answered by Sullygolf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was about ten years old I got from the Scholastic Book Club "The Miracle Worker". It is probably the only book that ever particularly inspired me, but Anne Sullivan's perseverance and her belief in a child who was so grossly underestimated by her family was incredibly inspiring. I think its because kids in the ten-years-old age range tend to "scan" the world of adults to find people who are particularly admirable.
2006-08-17 00:12:25 · answer #5 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call it Courage. Great kids book I read in third grade about a boy facing his greatest fears. First book I ever read without the school telling me too, and started a life long love of books.
2006-08-16 23:45:36 · answer #6 · answered by psycmikev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black Spring by Henry Miller, Total Freedom by J. Krishnamurti, Journey to the End of the Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine, A season in Hell by Rimbaud , and Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I could go on indefinitely...I'll leave it at that tho...I'm sure I'll kick myself tomorrow for not saying more. Ahhh crap I gotta say Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky...ok no more...shoot...Hunger by Knut Hamsun....argh gotta stop.
2006-08-16 23:49:00 · answer #7 · answered by skippybuttknuckle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. It is a great story about a man who starts out as a poor farmer and then becomes wealthy and successful. He finds that wealth doesn't equal happiness, at a great cost to him. It changed me forever, teaching me that money doesn't equal happiness.
2006-08-16 23:49:07 · answer #8 · answered by thrill88 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atlas Shrugged
2006-08-16 23:43:30 · answer #9 · answered by Jim Trebek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would have to be the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. Now I know when I ge the unholy urge to feast on blood to take it from the evil doer.
2006-08-16 23:45:18 · answer #10 · answered by Sara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋