ShinyPurple   10 #13 Posted November 14, 2008 Birdsong by Sebastian Foulks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
xruthx   10 #14 Posted November 14, 2008 It would help if your read them rather than have them thrown at your head then      i have both read them and banged my head against them. so similar but so different. the mind boggles:confused: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Circa   10 #15 Posted November 14, 2008 The Hours by Michael Cunningham was a stunner. It made me want to write a book. I just managed a short story and the inspiration dried up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
boyfriday   21 #16 Posted November 14, 2008 Yes and "The magic Porridge Pot" is a wonderful yet often harrowing story into how one family's bereavement descends into a struggle against drug addiction. My kids will never be fooled by any little old lady stood outside their school gates offering them a little pot.   H E A V Y !! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
melthebell   863 #17 Posted November 14, 2008 yeah moby dick  errrrrrrrrrrm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
chinaski   10 #18 Posted November 14, 2008 There's so many books that effected me, especially when I was younger:  Reading the last few chapters of Kafka's "The Trial" at 4am. Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer Charles Bukowski: Screams from the Balcony DH Lawrence: Women in Love Celine: Journey to the End of the Night Primo Levi: If this is a Man Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Phanerothyme   12 #19 Posted November 14, 2008 I've not tried that one - have you read Quantum Psychology also be RAW?  In dribs and drabs of someone else's copy. It seems to build on Prometheus Rising though. Given the number of people on SF who claim that one thing is another (including myself), it should probably also be required reading.  Prometheus Rising was the book that had a profound effect on my life though. Described (accurately IMO) as an "owner's manual for the human brain" by the author, it really did open the door to my own greater understanding of people and forced me to revise quite a few of my preconceived notions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
suzyoo   11 #20 Posted November 14, 2008 Have you read anything that has affected you profoundly?  my halifax savings book:hihi: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hels1977 Â Â 10 #21 Posted November 14, 2008 The Little Prince and the Five People you meet in Heaven. Â http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_People_You_Meet_in_Heaven Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Suffragette1 Â Â 10 #22 Posted November 14, 2008 Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Brilliant, harrowing, terrifying and eminently plausible, more so now that when it was first written over 20 years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Merry_Legs   10 #23 Posted November 14, 2008 Non Fiction would be Barefoot Doctor's Urban Warrior. Fiction would be:  The Cross and The Switchblade at school for RE and thinking if all gang members found Jesus, we'd all be OK. and then i grew up..   Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski  The Outsiders/Rumblefish/That was then this is now by SE Hinton  Tess of the D'Urbavilles, Thomas Hardy (think you can identify with anyone when your 17)  Torrents of Spring (Ernest Hemmingway)  Dark Materials trilogy (Philip Pullman) makes you think about life, the universe and everything Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
callippo   10 #24 Posted November 14, 2008 Red Rackham's Treasure and The Prisoners of the Sun - Herge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...