The book that affected you the most?

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the only book ive ever cried over is a book called "Tommorow when the war began: The third day the Frost" by John Marsden where one of the main characters called Robyn was shot (which could of been Healed) and then pulled the pin of a grenade to kill an enemy blowing herself up and the enemy.

I cried the whole night and vowed never to read the book again only to start reading it again the next day pathetic arnt I?

Presently
Women from Another Planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism, Author: Jean Kearns Miller

I've cried tears of sadness and tears of joy reading this book, I'm a 37yrs old woman with Aspergers undiagnosed so this book has brought back so many memories about the struggles I have and still have in my life.
Sorry if this post sounds depressing.

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There are certain books which have caused me to stop and say, "Oh my...," or "Yes! That is so brilliant" That just happened the other day when I (finally) got around to reading Animal Farm by G. Orwell. One of the neat things I like is in a work of fiction is when I get a kick of of something that is really unimportant (same thing with TV/movie comedies). There is a scene in Animal Farm where it is mentioned what animals become literate in what respect and I couldn't get over how the dogs were portrayed.

I don't read enough fiction to get influenced by it too much. I really should read more of the classics novels.

The most specific works that I have been influenced, at least that I remember, are by the works of Thomas Sowell, Witness by Whittaker Chambers, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer, the first volume of Gulag Archipelago by Alexandre Solzhenitsyn and Think A Second Time by Dennis Prager.

Also must be counted are the first (big, not kids books) I remember reading. Getting me into baseball was the mammoth Phillies Encyclopedia, and my early political views were influenced by among others my father's old leftover P.J. Rourke humor works. The funniest novel I have read is Big Trouble by Dave Barry, although it isn't the best. The funniest overall was probably My Dumb Century by the Onion people.

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Without a doubt: Man search for meaning, by Viktor Frankl

I'd like to add: Momo by Michael Ende, such a beautiful book!


same as above

Ohh, and also a short book by Carlos Pacheco: El principio del placer
How I HATED how a story ended! Left me feeling bad


Yeah, while reading Find your Passion, by Arnie Warren, a self help book.
I read it at a moment in my life that helped me a lot to take a decision

1984 this book tells it how it is!!

Can you explain that one to me? It was an excellent book and, as far as I can see, full of true observations. He was quite clear on the importance of having meaning, but the one thing I couldn't find was a prescription on how to acquire meaning if one discovers it is lacking. (The place I find myself)

Hi Emettman, what I got from mr. Frankl is that life has the meaning that YOU want to give to it, and that that it's constantly changing. Life won't come to you and tell you "This is your meaning in life", YOU have to "find" it, but Meaning isn't the purpose, it's an effect, you can't grab it or pursue it. The path in your life is your meaning, it's what you choose.

I'm usually procrastinating, doing things at last minute, but this week I decided that I WON'T procrastinate, that all the stuff in my To do list will get done, and man, I'm feeling SOOO MUCH BETTER!

Life doesn't have to be an utterly complicated thing, if you made a person happy today, life got a meaning.


If you want to talk more about it I'm open, send me a PM or post it in here
see ya

Two quotes from him: