how did they influence you?
2006-12-26 06:59:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
It would be books I read when I was a kid.
I would become absorbed in the story and in my mind I would
be there, imagining, the actual places, the smells and entire experience, I often hated for stories to end and would mentally continue the stories way past where the author ended.
*Horton hears a Who
*Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
*Swiss Family Robinson
*Pipi Longstocking
*watership Down
*20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
*Prince & the Pauper
*Oliver
*Madelinne
*The Hobbit - & Lord of The Rings
*Clan of Cave Bear-valley of horses-mammoth caves-Plains of Passage
and I have a thing for dictionary's to this day
2006-12-26 09:11:52 · answer #1 · answered by 2K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have time to come up with a top 10, but I will give you a top 6:
1) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pirsig
Read in high school and it really taught me to live for the moment and enjoy every minute of life.
2) Tao te Ching - Mitchell translation
Best translation and version of the classic text I've read. As good an explanation for why we're here as any.
3) Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
Love all of Vonnegut's work. Had to pick one.
4) Catch 22 - Heller
Very funny, sad, and thoughtful book. Plus, it's a classic.
5) Rule of the Bone - Banks
Read for first time in college and read it about once a year since. Coming of age book much in the same vein as Catcher in the Rye. Another of those books that teaches you to live for the moment.
6) Band of Brothers - Ambrose
I love all of his books. He is a master of providing a detailed history of the events while fully utilizing the words of the people who were there.
2006-12-26 07:23:39 · answer #2 · answered by walt flanagan's dog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jules Vernes- 20,000 leagues under the sea, HG Wells -Time Machine, Nicola Machiavellis- The Prince, Jack Londons- Call Of The Wild, Isaac Asimov's- The Foundation Trilogy, BHL Hart's- Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon, Brian Glanville's- History Of The World Cup, Pele's- The Beautiful Game, Ann Coulter's- Treason, & most any books by Adrian Goldsworthy or Michael Grant. I may have to get back to you? I need to think about it some more.
2006-12-26 08:05:33 · answer #3 · answered by Epinions Reviewer. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Custer died for your sins. Vine Deloria Jr.
2) The Boxcar Children.
3) A divine revelation of hell. Mary Baxter.
4) SCUM Manifesto. Valerie Solanas.
I have others but I cant think of them right now.
2006-12-26 14:33:16 · answer #4 · answered by lovehateleavestay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me, I am an American. I do not read books. I do not have to. I watch Fox news. They provide me with all there is to know.
2006-12-26 09:12:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋