Books that changed your life

[The Ü™]

Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

Did you like the movie, too?

[Hexis]

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. May he rest in peace...preferably afte he had finished the last book though lol.

[Metamorphosis]

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. May he rest in peace...preferably afte he had finished the last book though lol.

and I'll go ahead and throw in Sword of Truth and Song of Ice and Fire (although both not quite as good), but one did give me a better understanding of communism

[Hexis]

and I'll go ahead and throw in Sword of Truth and Song of Ice and Fire (although both not quite as good), but one did give me a better understanding of communism

Yes that is true, I just felt that Wheel of Time was the only one to actualy change my life in some fashion.

[Metamorphosis]

I'm going to go ahead and add Paddy Whacked and Black Mass.

[Hexis]

In that case I will add The Game, and Shop Girl.

[scantilyclad]

The Giver by LOIS LOWRY
Forever by JUDY BLUME (it taught me what masturbation was)
Smack by MELVIN BURGESS
1984 by GEORGE ORWELL
Animal Farm by GEORGE ORWELL
The Iliad and the Odyssey by HOMER
Macbeth by SHAKESPEARE
Lord of the Flies by WILLIAM GOLDING

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I don't know if I've ever read a book that lives up to the lofty designation "changed your life". But here are a few that made me think and may have altered the way I think or act a little bit.

"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
"A Brief History Of Time" by Stephen Hawking
"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
"Making Movies" by Sidney Lumet
"Sex, Drugs And Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman
"On Food And Cooking" by Harold McGee
"Peanuts" by Charles Schulz (No, it's technically not a book. But I think it's literature.)

[Roger Mexico]

Gravity's Rainbow. Hard to explain what it did to me, but it triggered synaptic connections I'd never experienced before.

Although it was actually another Pynchon book, Vineland, that got me into my current line of thinking about the relationship between sexual and political proclivities.

[anii]

- The Courage to Create by Rollo May
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Cat's Eye, The Edible Woman, and Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
- The Ethical Slut