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Books That Changed Your Life! (so far)
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I know this is a little silly, because, well, none of us are over twenty, but so far, which books do you feel had the greatest effect on the trajectory of your life or your mindset?
I have three.
Third grade. Harry Potter. Obviously. I mean, to quote someone, it "changed the topography of my mind" - it sort of formed my life at the foundation, you know? I can't even trace the way it changed my life, because it formed it.
Fourth grade and onward, but particularly sixth grade - the Tiffany Aching subset of Discworld. This one's less well-known, undeservedly so, but the protagonist and I have so much in common, and when I was nine and she was nine she was a hero in the ways I wanted to be a hero, a hero in the way I believed I could be a hero someday! We thought in similar ways, we had all the same insecurities, and I sobbed over the entirety of The Shepherd's Crown. And I mean,
Finally - and this should come as no surprize to anyone who has been around me for .2 seconds - ninth grade (so last year), Les Miserables. (can't include the accent because computers.) I mean, I really don't go a single day without thinking me, and it sort of. Raised my levels of idealism? Not that I wasn't more-or-less an idealist before, but this book just made it really really important to me that belief in the goodness of humanity and the world's capacity for change is hard on a day-to-day basis, but it isn't naive or pointless - in fact, it's necessary. Because the world is changing, the world has changed, and how are we supposed to change the world if we don't believe we can do it?
Plus, it's got a sick digression on the history of the Parisian sewer system, except now my friends make sewer jokes at me just because I enjoyed it.
What about the rest of you?
submitted by Katia
(September 26, 2015 - 11:42 am)
(September 26, 2015 - 11:42 am)
Ok this is what I have.
Harry Potter (Duh! Some of the greatest books EVER!)
Little House Books (I love how simple these books are, and how they are so non-violent{Now I enjoy some adventure in books but sometimes you need a break!})
Percy Jackson/Heros of Olympus (I love these! Rick Riordan really needs to change the ending though...)
This is really all I can think of right now..
Coppie says dctd. Duck Tape?
(September 27, 2015 - 2:16 pm)
Oh, I loved the little house books in second grade! And I'm curious, why are you unhappy with the end to Heroes of Olympus?
(September 27, 2015 - 4:22 pm)
New note on HoO
This series is almost better than the first. I am a very fast reader, so I usually miss a few cool thing in each book. BUT, I only read The Lost Hero once (Its the only book in the series that I have as a paperback, and they tend to die after the first five readings) and now that I went through the seies yet again and started at the beginning, I find all this awesome stuff about Jason. And the tattoo. Always the tattoo. Like, I got permission from my mom to draw an SPQR tattoo on my arm. It looks really cool.
(November 17, 2015 - 8:46 am)
@Katia
Have you read the ending? I just don't want to spoil it for you if you haven't.
(September 28, 2015 - 11:54 am)
I don't know... The Lord of the Rings had a pretty big impact on me, and not just the books but the movies too! (Best book to movie adaption EVER!) It made me appreciate fantasy more as a genre and sprawling stories about epic quests that you don't seem to find in modern books.
(September 28, 2015 - 6:12 pm)
As usual Harry Potter- the books are very wonderfully written.
And Anne of Green Gables- They are just so descriptive and so refreshingly old fashioned. No profanity, talk about the world ending, unpleasant deathes or threats. It's really so pure and enjoyable.
(October 1, 2015 - 6:01 pm)
See? This is what I mean with the Little House Books! I finished The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel the other day, and like, ALL the peolpe in the battles died!
(October 1, 2015 - 9:18 pm)
Eragon and the Inheritance Cycle gave me a whole new way of looking at things.
(October 4, 2015 - 10:38 am)
Like Shadowdancer, Anne of GG. It improved my life greatly because Anne's positivity gave me new zeal for wiping away personal darkness. Her philosophies of life were inspiring.
The Giver was amazing. It taught me that we can never forget the importance of human life, or trade in human lives for a more 'harmonious' society. Once you reduce the importance of life, nothing is beautiful or worth fighting for. If life doesn't matter, everything about the world crumbles, which is why I fight for all life.
(October 10, 2015 - 7:49 am)
Books that changed my life:
1. Because of Mr .Terupt by Rob Buyea-
Made me really open my eyes and take a good look at what was going on around me. Dollar words are AWESOME! The sequel is realy good as well and he just came out with a third book called Saving Mr. Terupt.
2. Percy Jackson ( mainly the first series)-
Started an almost two year obsession about greek gods, book trivia, and whether or not I was a demigod. I was literally obsessed. I checked his web page often and even designed a shrine to the greek gods since I was also going through an architecture phase.
(October 11, 2015 - 4:39 pm)
Harry Potter. Always Harry Potter.
To Kill a Mockingbird. I think that how children and some of the more... inappropriate... stuff in this book was portrayed, it really made me think... about thinking.
Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, and An Abundance of Katherines. For making me, again, think about thinking and how we see life and other people.
The Subtle Knife. NOT because I liked it. I hated it, because it basically is about saying that my faith is a lie. But it helped me learn what really sucks about the world: people attacking your faith for no good reason at all.
Little House on the Prairie and Little Women and Little Men and Anne of Green Gables. For when it's so much nicer to think about an older way of life.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Because of the conflict between learning and doing good. And for a teenager of faith, I think that is extremely powerful.
(October 11, 2015 - 8:34 pm)
My three books are:
>Harry Potter series
>Olive's Ocean (by Kevin Henkes)
>Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series
(October 11, 2015 - 9:18 pm)
You know who I am. Kittens, rainbows, unicorns, and happines, right?? Heck, I just spent 30 dollars at a everything-is-bedazzled-and-we-are-mostly-for-little-kids store for a cute sparkly penguin stuffed animal with a little winter hat! So I'm not the kind of person who is into.... well.... violence, suffering, and starvation. And so I really thought I would hate the book A Long Walk to Water, and I wasn't excited when I was assigned to read it for Battle of the Books. But once I started reading it... I don't know what happened. I. Couldn't. Stop. When I finished it was like I couldn't breath in a good way. This was the best book I'd ever read.
(October 12, 2015 - 6:36 pm)
I read that book in school last year and it was awesome! I love how the guy takes his situation and helps other people!
(November 17, 2015 - 8:40 am)
Okay, so here are the books
Lord of the rings,
Artemis Fowl,
The Hardy Boys,
The most dangerous game,
and last but not least (drumroll please)
CRICKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(November 5, 2015 - 2:02 pm)