Apart from that, I enjoy history. I am reading about different lighthouses around the great lakes. Additionally Old Rail Fence Corners is a great book about life in the Frontier. Growing up, Call of the Wild, Tom Sawyer, and Dracula.
Wow, had just about forgotten about Jack London. White Fang and Call of the Wild were huge favorites growing up. Love those books ...
1. Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks (1991). I could not agree more with the reviews quoted below:
'This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it'
- Nigel Watts, Time Out
'I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit '
- Quentin Crewe, Daily Mail
I've had a turbulent relationship with this book. I studied it at school, and hated it with every fibre of my being. Encouraged by some friends at university, and having thoroughly enjoyed A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man, I picked it up again.
Needless to say, I loved it, and saw it for what it was: one of the greatest works of literature ever produced. I must have read it fifty times since then, and have a wonderfully dog-eared copy that has pride of place on my bookshelves.
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1. Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks (1991). I could not agree more with the reviews quoted below:
'This is literature at its very best: a book with the power to reveal the unimagined, so that one's life is set in a changed context. I urge you to read it'
- Nigel Watts, Time Out
'I have read it and re-read it and can think of no other novel for many, many years that has so moved me or stimulated in me so much reflection on the human spirit '
- Quentin Crewe, Daily Mail
I've had a turbulent relationship with this book. I studied it at school, and hated it with every fibre of my being. Encouraged by some friends at university, and having thoroughly enjoyed A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man, I picked it up again.
Needless to say, I loved it, and saw it for what it was: one of the greatest works of literature ever produced. I must have read it fifty times since then, and have a wonderfully dog-eared copy that has pride of place on my bookshelves.
Birdsong was amazing - had completely forgotten that book and now will go refind it and re-read - I recall it offering painful insight into the horror of WWI.
I could never make it through Ulysses - enjoyed Portrait of the Artist though ...
Well, I don't think these changed my life per se, but I loved reading these!
I read the Dragonlance books when I was in middle school - fell in love with fantasy.
I have always loved the Lois McMaster Bjold 'Barrayar' series - so awesome. I can read and reread these over and over again! The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis is great too.
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Well, I don't think these changed my life per se, but I loved reading these!
I read the Dragonlance books when I was in middle school - fell in love with fantasy.
I have always loved the Lois McMaster Bjold 'Barrayar' series - so awesome. I can read and reread these over and over again! The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis is great too.
Hey pickle
I reckon any book that made you fall in love with a particular genre, most certainly changed your life. :) Nice choices :approve:
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. after that, i spent years devouring books on philosophy of politics, especially the works of bakunin and a few others.
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