The Connection.org : Books that Changed My Life Series

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Any books that changed your life?

June 16, 2005 by Uncategorized 7

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  1. lislemck says:
    June 17, 2005 at 1:20 am

    Hard to say which
    So many books have changed my life! Do I start at age 4? That was Understood Betsy .

    I had a college writing professor tell me to stop reading for a few years. I figured he was just peeved because he couldn’t come up with any examples I hadn’t read. (BTW, I kept reading. Which may explain why I’m a librarian instead of a published poet. So thank you, great Beat poet.)

    In any case, lately I am finding it interesting to keep track of the books that didn’t change my life–particularly the ones I can’t finish. It’s sort of interesting. The list includes Harry Potters (ok–I read 1.5) and The World Is Flat. Unless “to be avoided”=changing my life.

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  2. Anonymous Patron says:
    June 17, 2005 at 1:22 am

    it’s cheesy…
    it’s horrible, but,
    it was _Jonathan Livingston Seagull_ by Richard Bach. I bought it from the Waldenbooks at the mall in small town Pennsylvania. And although my tastes have outstripped it and I have outgrown it, I will always love it.

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  3. Samantha says:
    June 17, 2005 at 1:39 am

    Also cheesy
    I guess I would say “Stranger in a Strange Land” by Heinlein. I *loved* that book all through my high school years and read it hundreds of times. I’m not sure I can specifically say how it changed my life but I’m sure it warped me somehow 🙂

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  4. Anonymous Patron says:
    June 17, 2005 at 2:29 am

    Water Brother!
    I want to know which book changed Greenspan’s life from a musician to an economic theorist….

    People can lose their lives in libraries.
    They ought to be warned.
    — Saul Bellow

    I’ve read so many things, I can’t point to anything in particular that’s changed me. Stranger was good. Atlas Shrugged was interesting (although I didn’t buy it then, and less so now). So many many many things, and often it was just little bits of them that made the lightbulbs go off….

    — Ender, Duke_of_URL

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  5. GregS* says:
    June 17, 2005 at 5:19 am

    seems like any good book…
    changes my outlook for at least a few days

    Anna Karenina made my a cynic and a romantic all at the same time, I think it made me a conservative too. I don’t know what The Razor’s Edge did to me but it did something.

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  6. Samantha says:
    June 18, 2005 at 12:36 am

    Another one!
    Perhaps even more influential upon me was “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” I read it at least once a year from sixth grade to high school graduation. I used to be able to quote large swaths of it from memory. That book taught me the importance of knowing where my towel is.

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  7. Anonymous Patron says:
    June 18, 2005 at 4:12 am

    Speaking of annual reads…
    My ex-roomie always reads LotR once a year…

    I’ve always had a good memory, so I rarely re-read things.

    A towel is a wonderful thing, especially if it contains food 🙂

    — Ender, Duke_of_URL

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