what book has changed your life?

Question

Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts.

Answer 1

It would have to be a tie-between "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom and "The Little Prince" by Antoine Saint-Exupery. Both books are life-changing to an open mind. They are sweet, touching stories that make you think about what really matters in life. I read "Tuesdays with Morrie" when it first came out - many years ago - and it had such an impact on me that I have re-read it several times since, given it as a gift many times, and even taken notes from it. "The Little Prince" is similar. I'll never forget how I felt the first time I read it.

Both are easy reads, and so inspiring.

Answer 2

A book called I Am Dracula. I can't even remember who it is by--I read it a long time ago.

It was given to me by a young man who worked for my father. I was eleven and he warned me that some parts of it were mature and that I needed to be a good judge of what I should and shouldn't read. I, of course, read the sex parts but I shut the book straight away when I found out that Satan being God was a main part of the plot.

I looked at that book every day when I came home from school, wanting to read it, but too nervous that I would go to hell for reading something of that sort. Finally, I thought to myself that if religion kept me from reading books then I wouldn't have a part in it. So I read I Am Dracula.

It wasn't the best book ever, but it was the first thing I had ever seen that wasn't completely watered down to fit into the Christian mold. It really opened my mind to everything else that's out there.

Answer 3

When God Was a Woman. Goes back through history and points out that all civilizations started out workshipping women because they gave birth and no one understood conception. This meant property was passed matrilinearly (because you couldn't prove paternity and women could sleep with whom ever they wanted) and women held positions of power. When cultures started worshipping male deities, women lost all power they once had. They had to be faithful to husbands, but husbands could sleep with whoever they wanted. The book proposes the idea that male deities were created to socially imprison women and give men power. Whether it's true or not, it made me question religions of today. I wasn't raised on any particular religion and I've always been on the fence, but this reasoning and historical facts have made me wonder even more. Whether you are religious or not, the historical irony of it makes it a good read.

Answer 4

Elevator to the Moon.

One Christmas was so lean that all my mother could afford for me was two books she bought at cost at work (Folletts Publishing house) and she read it to me (I was 6) and it made me want to be a writer and insipried my first book (at the age of 7) which got panned by Gogatha Lutheran School (it was about Outerspace and our Solar System -- but they said it didn't Glorify God's work.... Hummm... I guess his creation of the Heavens isn't all that spectacular). Got into print at 16 and published regularly in non-fiction at 30. Working on breaking into the book market.

Answer 5

A portrait of the artist as a young man.

The 48 laws of power

Finite and infinite games

The art of wordly wisdom

Answer 6

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
It mirrors a genetic engineering/social class society and worship of hard science that I see elements of in modern America

Answer 7

I read Lord of The Rings and the Hobbit when I was about 12 and I was amazed at how it pulled me into the landscape and such a world of imagination!

Answer 8

That might be "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. You should read it. It's a short 89 pages.

Answer 9

The Bible. Taught me to be loving, compassionate and a better human being.

Answer 10

Drawing on the right side of the brain.