Have you ever read a book that just blew your mind? (fiction, story)
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It Will Never Happen to Me by Claudia Black. It's about children of alcoholics and it may have saved my life. I read it in the summer of 1983 and it got me on the road to therapy and what I think has been a pretty good life.
Redemption; The Myth of Pet Overpopulation by Nathan Winograd. Like many in the world of rescue I had believed that "we can't save them all" because there are just too many of them. Winograd shows what would need to happen for the 3 million or so healthy, adoptable dogs and cats to find good homes. Each year individuals and families add about 18 million new pets to their homes but only a fraction of them come from shelters and rescues. It's estimated that about half a million come from puppy mills and smaller back yard breeders. Many come from Oops! litters where people didn't bother to get a pet fixed soon enough.
It got me more involved in rescue and education about the issue.
I am a HUGE dog lover & this book had me in tears all the way though it. I've lost several animals & it touched me to wonder if they think like Enzo does!
Have you ever read a book that blew your mind? It doesn't have to be the best book you've ever read, or your most favorite, just a book that really made you say "wow" or maybe made you look at things in a new way.
For example, I've read two in the last six months that really blew me away: Brave New World and All Quiet on the Western Front. They got me for different reasons, Brave New World because I felt that Huxley was on to something, and All Quiet on the Western Front because it really made the emotions of the fight come to me. Wow. And thanks!
Really, in some way *every* book that I read blows my mind because it is offering me new thoughts, new perspectives and ideas. Even though I do not read fiction, I find that this is true of non-fiction also. One of my favorite books in the world is Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. Every time I read it, I am completely blown away.
2666 by Bolano--this is a lengthy, discursive, and excessive meditation on violence, gender, art, and fate. It subverts several different fiction genres to build its sprawling landscape.
1491 by Mann--nonfiction; a journalist surveys the last century of scholarship on the Americas before Columbus and explains that everything I was taught in school about the Americas was wrong.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Didion--nonfiction; a memoir of sorts that uses techniques of fiction to tell a story of grief and mourning.
Against the Wind: Memoirs of a Radical Christian by Solle--nonfiction; a liberation theologian describes her formative years and criticizes the role of Protestantism in the rise of German fascism.
Invisible Man by Ellison--I've never read another author who reached the nature of race in America so adroitly. Also an excellent example of late modern prose.
The Trial by Kafka--suberb modernism, forces the reader to ask big questions.
Superstition by David Ambrose Parapsychologist Sam Towne believes that ghosts come from the human mind, not from "beyond". To prove his theory, he invites eight volunteers, including skeptical reporter Joanna Cross, to take part in an experiment. In a series of seances they invent "Adam Wyatt," a tragic Revolutionary War hero, and are thrilled when he starts rapping on tables and spelling out messages.
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