What book made an impact on your life??

Question

please do not say the Bible, that is obvious. It has changed a lot of lives. I am looking for other answers.

what books have inspired you and made you change things about your life. A little more intellectual questions please :)

Answer 1

'The Law of Attraction' by Losier. It made me wake up and realize I was living beneath my dreams, what I wanted out of life. Therefore, I changed some of the way I was living in order to have a more fulfilling life.
There are several self-help books out there that can make a difference. Some new, some old. One of the older ones I've read lately is 'Swim with the Sharks' by Harvey Mackay....good principles in there, especially if you own your own business.

Answer 2

Great question! (Hard to answer, though).

I read a lot, so books are constantly influencing me. Probably, the ones that have had the greatest impact would be:

Dune, by Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
The Feminine Face of God, by Sherry Anderson and Patricia Hopkins
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
Canopus in Archives (series), by Doris Lessing - I would be hard-pressed to pick which one of the set that impacted me more, but I think it would be "The Marriages of Zones 3, 4 and 5"

Answer 3

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The first Sherlock Holmes story which I read when I was 15, not knowing at the time, what glorious treasures it would open up to me. They were the most exciting and thought provoking tales I'd ever read and, coupled with the steely, emotionless protagonist, I fell in love instantly and every other book paled by comparison.

Answer 4

Tolkein opened my eyes to the whole range of books that are out there.

Before reading him I had been much of a reader, except for stuff I had to read for school, Shakespeare, George Elliot, Thomas Hardy, that sort of rubbish.

But the two books I read over and over again are

Catch 22 - Thomas Heller (it says so much about todays society in a humerous way)

and

The Stone and the Flute - Hans Bemman (Again says so much about the prejudices in society, and the battle against obscurity, but in a fantasy setting)

Answer 5

It's not easy for me to reach such a decision. So it's "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee I read during my college years since one of the characters, Atticus Finch, impressed me as a good and kind father (he's a widower) to his two children. Moreover, while reading this novel, Lee described the whole episode via Scout (his duaghter). Jem's her brother who had his own ideas with helpful cooperation. You'd love them all and see why it's a great novel.
As far as I know, there's also a film (same title) starring Gregory Peck (as Atticus), Mary Badham (Scout) and Phillip Alford (Jem).

Answer 6

1. Old Magic by Marianne Curley. She got me totally hooked on fantasy stories.

2. Night World series by L.S. Smith. Got me interested in the supernatural and believing that soulmates exist.

3. His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Made me fell in love with the Aurora.

There are probably many others,but none that I can remember right now...

Answer 7

1. Pat Conroy- Lords of Discipline
2. Ernest Hemingway- Islands in the Stream

Answer 8

When I was in high school i read the series of nursing books written by Sue Barton and I was so impressed that I went on to nursing school and worked as a nurse for 40 years.

Answer 9

The Catcher interior the Rye via J.D. Salinger and combat club via Chuck Palahniuk the two impacted me. The Catcher interior the Rye made me genuinely get excitement from the innocence of youthful human beings and youthful human beings. combat club replaced the way I appeared on the interior systems of society and human nature, such because of fact the unstated thought that there is so lots greater to a scar than a mark on your pores and skin. Subconsciously, anybody needs a scar, a narrative to tell, to viciously destroy something and characteristic something to instruct to instruct that "they did it", no person needs to die without scar, without doing something "useful". One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest via Ken Kesey become yet another superb e book and the determination of poems via Jim Morrison additionally impacted me.

Answer 10

The Catcher in the Rye

I realized thru Holden that there was something beyond the nest my wonderful parents had made for me.

"Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will."