Books that had the most profound effect on your life at the time, how old were you?

Question

Mine was The Lion The Witch and the wardrobe and Secret Garden when I was little (Made me love books), Down and out in Paris and London when I was 15, Creed for the third millenium, Hold my hand I'm dieing (The flooding of the Zambesi River) and Black saga a couple of years ago.

Answer 1

To kill a mockingbird and of mice and men - i loved those books so much i became an English teacher!

Answer 2

As a child:
* Where the Wild Things Are
* Tiki Tiki Tembo
* Betsy series by Carolyn Haywood

Adolescent:
* Odyssey/Illiad
* Edgar Allen Poe
* Assorted World myths

Teen:
* Tale of Two Cities
* Scarlet Letter
* 451 Fahrenheit

Adult:
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep
* Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov

Answer 3

The Torch Is Passed. This book was published a few months following the death/assassination of President John F Kennedy.I was nine years old, at the time when I read this book. It moved me very much. It encouraged me to follow world/ news events more closely.
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich.I read this book in my early teens, it gives a detailed in-sight into the operations of The Third Reich, gives interesting details of Hitler's personal life, and a believe in his own destiny, the book is fascinating from many angels.

Answer 4

Junk by Melvin Burgess at around 12 - first time I realised that I might have problems with addiction

Go Ask Alice by Anon at about 13 - the reason I never took drugs

Chicken Soup for the Soul I - V by various. Read these books throughout my life and they have inspired and motivated me

The Tao Te Ching at 19 - gave me hope

The 10 Secrets of Abundant Happiness at 18 - got me through a bad bout of depression

Answer 5

Starshine, Waiting for Helen--7-10 yrs. old. I kept coming back to these books, they were far from great, but I knew them, they were about people or adventures I wanted to meet or have, they were like familiar friends. They helped me get through some difficult years because I could always go to them and know what I was getting and lose myself.

Pride and Prejudice--12 yrs. old. The first book I ever read which was a challenge to me, that I had to use the dictionary with and made me realize how stimulating reading could be, as well as comforting. All the books I read up until then, I was too advanced for.

Gone With the Wind--15 yrs. old. My first intellectual revolt. My father told me not to read the book, it was trash. I bought it anyway and kept it under my mattress.

Lolita--18 yrs. old. I first learned that books could be written like poetry.

Jane Eyre--25 yrs. old. Wonderful book, probably one of my favourites, dragged me back to the classics from which I have never escaped.

Answer 6

The Power Of Now--Eckhart Tolle
26

Answer 7

As SAD as this will be, mine is Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone.

OMG

Reason being is that i has a lot of domestic stuff at home and the way that the Dursley's treated Harry reminded me of how i was treated at the time. (I don't live with my birth parents either) It kind of put my life in perspective.

Just the whole thought of escaping into a magical world was magical to me and made me realise that i can always escape in the end.

How soppy did that sound! Sorry! XD!

Answer 8

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring when I was 16 and The Outsiders when I was 13.

Answer 9

As a child, it was a specific book illustrator who may have had the most profound effect on me. Her name was Trina Schart Hyman. I would spend hours looking at her adaptations of Fairy Tales.

As a teenager, I loved _Invisible Man_ by Ralph Ellison. I related to the narrator during that time in my life.

Answer 10

Tuesday's with Morrie, Five people you meet in Heaven- Both by Mitch Albom.

I was 20 when I read Tuesday's with Morrie and 24 when I read Five people you meet in Heaven. Both of these books make you realize the importance of cherising life and the people that are close to you and make your life what it is. Because at any time that can be stripped from you!! I go back and read both of these books now and again, just to remind myself how lucky I am and how thankful I should be that I have the family and friends that I do!!!

Great question!!

Answer 11

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