I have just read the book `a piece of cake` by cupcake brown and it made me see how lucky i was and how you can achieve what you want if you put your mind to it. Has a book had that type of effect on you?
2007-01-15 06:37:53 · 21 answers · asked by Jazzybee 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Now there's a coincidence (frasier, you're not alone), I also read "Cider with Rosie" when I was about 16 ... but in my case it revealed a whole new world outside of the SF books I'd been reading almost exclusively, and that prose could be poetry. It was inspirational for my own writing.
Also I have never been moved more by a book than by "Mister God, this is Anna" by Fynn. Made me cry. Twice.
2007-01-15 06:48:45 · answer #1 · answered by replybysteve 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is going to sound a bit silly but....I read Cider With Rosie when I was 16 years old and realised for the first time that I had grown up in a village and that I recognised the village life in that book.
I had just always associated myself with the nearest town, but good old Laurie Lee pointed me in the right direction there.
2007-01-15 06:43:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definately all the books by Mitch Albom:
-The Five People You Meet in Heaven
-For One More Day
-Tuesdays With Morrie
2007-01-15 06:42:55 · answer #3 · answered by americang21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was just going to say "a piece of cake"...i cant tell you how many times my jaw dropped reading that book...what a woman, she opened my eyes and my mind.
just remembered a book i read as a young teen called go ask alice, author anonymous..it is a diary of a young girls fall into the world of a heroin addict. it should be compulsory reading for all teens in the fight against drugs as it details the depths a person can sink to. i was never even curious about drugs after reading that book..scary stuff.and all true ,
2007-01-15 06:42:18 · answer #4 · answered by ginger 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Coming of Age in Mississippi" an autobiography by Anne Moody. It's about her struggles growing up in the rural south before the civil rights movement and how she became a part of it as she got older. It's a great story about succeeding even with great challenges, and makes me question if today's genereation will ever realize who to thank for the freedom they so enjoy.
2007-01-15 07:08:24 · answer #5 · answered by V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
2007-01-15 06:58:12 · answer #6 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tao Te Ching. It takes you out of stress and puts perspective on everything. Even if you think you have no time to read, you should read anything from this book, it really calms you and makes you think about yourself.
2007-01-16 00:46:31 · answer #7 · answered by Kaj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Fortis the Brave!
2007-01-15 13:44:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grace and Grit by Ken Wilber.
If there is one book I would reccommend to everybody it is this wonderful, inspiring, sad, beautiful story of life, death and the human spirit.
2007-01-15 07:00:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Green Eggs and Ham. Dr. Suess. It taught me that I may think I do not like something, but that does not mean that I actually like or dislike it. It only means that I am ignorant to it. By learning I lose the ignorance.
2007-01-15 06:47:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋