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Books that influence you..
Have you ever read a book that really changed the way you look at things or that has inspired you to change your way of life?
What was the book? *Apart from religious books. |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X changed the way I look at a lot of things. It made me see the world in a more nitty gritty way and made me think about the strife people face when they are oppressed. Really makes you see the world in a different way.
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Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Material's" Trilogy.
This series gave me a new outlook on and made me an armchair physicist and renewed my falling interest in maths... "Endurance". My sister got this book for me as a birthday present. Its about the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's voyage to the South Pole and their ship got stranded....in 1914. Made me think a lot about survival when I finished reading it. Erm...of the couple hundreds of books I've read are novels...so they're mainly for entertainment.
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To Kill a Mockingbird.
"...You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it..." I fell in love with Atticus.
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Dan Brown Angels and Demons it made me more fasnicated about things that go on the underworld i guess...
Chinese cinderrela thou i cant member who its by.. true like story about a girl in the vietnaham war made you realize how lucky you are to live in 2days society then back then also ann franks diary thats not really infulanced but books i still member esp chinese cinderalla i read that when i was 12 or 13 or summin
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mines quite a weird one, you may all laugh but the most influential book for me was 2001 a space odyssey and a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. read the latter when i was quite young and it changed the way i saw a lot of things. i think a lot of my imagination and creativity is there because of that book!
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Chinese Cinderella and Fasting, Feasting were probably the two books that have made me into the doormat that I am. They made me think that I was lucky to have a family like mine, and I shouldn't complain.
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