Have you ever read a book that just blew your mind? (character, poets)
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Alive by Piers Paul Read Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
Anything by Terry Pratchett - I cannot figure out how that man's mind works! Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
My favorite all time books are Don Quixote and Confederacy of Dunces.
Was assigned Don Quixote as a college freshman. Divided the pages by the number of days and dutifully set out my first Friday to read my allotted number of pages. Got caught up in the story and spent the rest of the week with Don Quixote and Dulcinea. Loved the story. Could not believe no one had ever told me about it.
Confederacy of Dunces is a hoot. Such imagery and humor.
LOVE Confederacy of Dunces! I read it a couple years ago when I needed a good distraction and ended up really enjoying it. I thought it got a little slow in the middle but the end of the book made it amazing! I got a hoot out of the lack of "theology and geometry."
I'm surprised no one mentioned Night by Elie Wiesel. It was one of the most memorable, heart touching book I have ever read. I can't imagine anyone being able to survive such horrible events.
I love books that have to do with war. And I really enjoyed Catch-22, it's just a roller coaster of emotions. I don't even know if I should laugh or cry.
Back when I was a freshman in Highschool (we're talking 1990), My mind was blown reading The Lord of the Flies.
As a contemporary choice, without a doubt, I'd say The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
Such a poignant, heartbreaking historical fiction piece. Set in Germany
during WWII, it's a coming of age story narrated by Death: the not so grim reaper. I typically do not reread books. However, this one I've read TWICE and lent it to twice as many friends!
I'm surprised no one mentioned Night by Elie Wiesel. It was one of the most memorable, heart touching book I have ever read. I can't imagine anyone being able to survive such horrible events.
Night is definitely one that has always stuck with me. It's so horrible that it's kind of hard to believe it's true.
I just read the Alchemist and it was great! What a way to live your life - believing that you're being guided and helped all the time.
Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich changed my life when I was young but I think The Hidden Secret in Think and Grow Rich by Brian Kim annihilated my mind. I felt like Neo seeing the code of the Matrix after that. I used to be a self help junkie, trapped by that matrix but now I am FREE!
For the person who mentioned "Ishi, the last stone-age man," ( or was it "last of his tribe?") the author was Theodora Kroeber. She and her husband were the anthropologists who took Ishi from the jail where he'd been taken and realized that he was the last of his linguistic group. They took him to the museum at UC Berkeley and studied him. He lived there, gave demonstrations of his survival skills, worked as a janitor at the museum. I believed he died of TB around 1918 (was "found" in 1911).
Of interest, the Kroebers were the parents of the author Ursula LeGuin. She writes science fiction/fantasy (a clumsy description) with, uh, a sort of fourth-dimension sense of reality. I know that sounds clunky, but I do believe her parents' invovlement in a genuine Native American worldview had a lot of influence on her writing.
When i was an early teenager, i remmeber being blowned away by 1984 by George Orwell.
When i was around 18 I remember going crazy about "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoievski.
Around 20-21 i remember loving french existencialism like "La naúsea" from Sartre and "The stranger" from Camus. And at the same time i went crazy about Proust "In search of Lost time".
But the last book that TOTALLY blew my mind and its probably the best book i ever read is definetely written by Roberto Bolaño and its called "The savage detectives" and its absolutely wonderful and unforgettable.
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