Alive.

[wolven7]

What books have changed your life? You see, I like to think of myself as the kind of person who hears or reads something about someone else, and thinks, "What does that say about them? Who are they that they would be so deeply affected by this?"

I would also like to think that people thought that, about me.

I'm alive. I have cable and intarwubs, and the new place is mostly clear of boxes. Woot.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, American Gods, Threshold, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council, House of Leaves, A Wren, and many others.

Off to read your posts.

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[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

Catch-22, "Waiting for Godot," the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges and H.P. Lovecraft, the poetry of William Blake, "Leaves of Grass," Moby-Dick, Sandman, Neverwhere, The Holy Bible.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

"Waiting for Godot," The Bible, Sandman, Books of Magic, Catcher in the Rye.

Thanks for the reminders.

[sadistic-apollo.livejournal.com]

To kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Armor

there are doubtless a few others, but those spring to mind most readily.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Nice.

[momentai.livejournal.com]

I do wonder that about people, but only people I care about and usually, only if I didn't get anything from the material or I hadn't heard of it before.

The Westing Game-reminded me that children's literature isn't just for kids

Harry Potter series-reminded me of what it's like to have fun

Down and Out in PAris London-made me realize Life is more realtive than I previously beleived and gave me guidelines to know when I would be ready to die

A Day in The Life of Ivan Denosovich-gave me a cleare picture of what it means to be a man and what cruelty and ignorance really mean

American Psycho-a near perfect demonstration of what narrative sructure is and a proof there is a such thing as non gratuitous violence

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Thanks for the input.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

The Autobiography of Mother Jones
The Cosmic Serpent - Jeremy Narby
You Just Don't Understand - Deborah Tannen
Deathbird Stories - Harlan Ellison
Jonathon Livingston Seagull
The Little Prince
The Missing Piece - Shel Silverstein
Spoon River Anthology - Thomas Masters
A Death in the Family - James Agee
The Castle - Franz Kafka
The Devils (or The Possessed) - Fyoder Dostoevski
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
Nausea - JP Sartre
Autobiography of a Face - Lucy Grealy
"The word for world is forest" - Ursula Leguin
"Time Heals" - Gary A Braunbeck

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

oh yeah,
The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You - Dorothy Bryant
Herworld - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

I guess I should stop there

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

Gosh, you know, looking over the list, a lot of those books are about making personal sacrifices for the betterment of society. Huh.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

okay absolutely last one:

The Concious Person's Guide to Relationships

Seriously, that was probably the very FIRST book I read to completely alter my mind.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

but it's out of print. it's by Ken Keyes, Jr

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yup. :)

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

whoops

The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

[wolven.livejournal.com]

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld - Patricia McKillip

This was the first fantasy novel I ever read. I was 6.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

it was my first too! I was 12

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I forgot: The Prince and Crime and Punishment

[nausved.livejournal.com]

The two most influential novels in my life have been The Poisonwood Bible and The Education of Little Tree.

The two most influential books were probably the various biology, chemistry, and ecology textbooks I've studied in my life. They've each completely changed the way I see the world.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Physics texts, too. Oh yes.

[salrushdy.livejournal.com]

Anything by Julio Cortazar

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'll have to look those up, as I've never heard that name.

[salrushdy.livejournal.com]

only metaphysicist from the heart(not from the mind)can appreciate it
he is anti pod to Piercing or Kant,
theirs books can be understood on intellectual level
it doesn't work with this argentinian genius

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I'll definately look into him, then. Thankss.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! he's awesome! (great pick!)

Try Blow-Up and other stories or We Love Glenda So Much

[salrushdy.livejournal.com]

"Hopscotch" is bible of metaphysics
though it is personally

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

American Gods
poetry of W.B. Yeats
His Dark Materials
Tamsin
Small Gods
Handmaid's Tale
Twelfth Night
Kindred
Tao Te Ching
My Year of Meats

But you knew most of those :3

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

Oh, and The Talking Earth, of course

Listless

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

The Ethical Slut
I'm Not Really Here (yes, Tim Allen)
The Televisionary Oracle
The Autobiography of Malcom X
An Introduction to Islam
The Screwtape Letters
Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting
Superman: Peace on Earth
Dragons of a Vanished Moon

[paosparti.livejournal.com]

Everything by Pratchett
The Bible ... it talked me OUT of Christianity
Flowers for Algernon... although it made me so sad that I have never finished it.
2001 Space Odyssey- Arthur C. Clark
Eaters of the Dead- Micheal Chrighton
The Oval portrait- By Edger Alan Poe
Illusions- Richard Bach