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14 Jan 2007, 6:23 pm

Post the books that interest you or are life-changing.

I would have to say that "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" changed my life in a way.

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14 Jan 2007, 6:52 pm

Pretending to be Normal
Thinking in Pictures
Your Life is Not A Label
The Complete Guide to Asperger's

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14 Jan 2007, 7:34 pm

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

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14 Jan 2007, 8:01 pm

"Songs of the Gorilla Nation-My Journey Through Autism" by Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.

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14 Jan 2007, 8:09 pm

The big ones:

Catch-22.
Johnny the Homocidal Maniac.
Watchmen.
Tithe: A Modern Fairy Tale.
The Sandman series.

Harry Potter changed my life because when the film came out I finally started seeing movies again, and the books were what caused me to become a writer in the first place.

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15 Jan 2007, 11:20 am

The Magic Finger - Roald Dahl
Hairy Mclairy - Lynley Dodd
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Face - Benjamin Zephaniah
The Wind On Fire Trilogy - William Nicholson
Alice in Woderland - Lewis Carroll
Stardust, Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Blackwood Farm - Anne Rice

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15 Jan 2007, 11:32 am

Crime & Punishment - Dostoevsky; Not for the disturbed mind.
Asimov - Foundation Trilogy. Sci-fi will never be the same...
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

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15 Jan 2007, 11:50 am

Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried - This experimental novel is more a book on philosophy than a war novel. Which is why I like it so much.
Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor - Some of the rawest and most authentic emotions in literature. Palahniuk's direct, postmodern Hemingwayean style emphasizes the characters unlike anyone else.
Elizabeth Moon - The Speed of Dark - A Sci-fi book about autism which I was recommended by a psychologist. A very good philosophical musing about a hypothetical "curing" of autism, but slightly less human in its narration than The Curious Incident
Oliver Sacks - An Anthropologist On Mars - A great study on human behavior.

And of course, you can't forget Douglas Adams:
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - one of the few books I've bothered to read more than once.

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15 Jan 2007, 11:52 am

"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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15 Jan 2007, 12:11 pm

The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies - Michael W. Kauffman
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II - Iris Chang
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission - Hampton Sides
Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism - Kamran Nazeer
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation - Joseph Ellis
Agent 146: The True Story of a Nazi Spy in America - Erich Gimpel

Oh and I like any Clive Cussler books and Harlan Coben, not the Myron Bolitar mysteries

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