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The 5 works of fiction you have read......
That you feel have had the most profound impact on YOUR path through YOUR life to date?
And BTW......
There's nothing magic or even remotely important about my arbitrary choice of FIVE.
Fewer or more matters not.
Anyone care to consider my query and play?
Cheers and good night.
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said...... But I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I'll have to think about this one for a bit.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and the complete works of Bill Watterson come to mind.
Last edited by Abominable Gorilla; 02-03-2010 at 06:06 PM.
Sorry. I can't think of any works of fiction that have had any impact on my life.
Originally Posted by Spinoza
The 5 works of fiction you have read......
That you feel have had the most profound impact on YOUR path through YOUR life to date?
And BTW......
There's nothing magic or even remotely important about my arbitrary choice of FIVE.
Fewer or more matters not.
Anyone care to consider my query and play?
Cheers and good night.
Go ahead and start it off with your five.
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
To Kill A Mockingbird
I'm an asshole! What's your excuse?
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Great Divorce
I'm having to think too much to get to 5, so it must not have had that great of an impact.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
Gone With the Wind
A Christmas Carol
Lonesome Dove
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Screwtape Letters
East of Eden
The Pokey Little Puppy
The Brothers Karamazov
Maybe. I think there should probably be more "children's books" on a list that impacted my life. The Jungle Books maybe. Possibly Arabian Nights or some Jack London. I could maybe make a case for The Sun Also Rises or The Life of Pi.
The trilogy of the Rings
Michael Strogoff Courier of the Csar
anything by Lois Lamour
Number 1 is very, very easy. Les Miserables. It had a most profound impact. Literally, it changed me permanently. I will never look at religion, convicts, or the poor the same again.
The next would be Gone With the Wind. Les Mis was first read as an adult. Gone with the Wind as a teenager. I would say that the impact that book had was that I learned the lesson that in the short term, it may pay to be disloyal to yourself, your people and your convictions, but in the long term, when you sell your soul, there is a profound price to pay.
Saving the Queen by Bill Buckley would be next. The book was found on a park bench in New Orleans and given to me. I read it while I was still working offshore. I became a Bill Buckley fan after that, and have read just about every thing that prolific writer wrote before he died. You could say it was the birth of a conservative.
Hamlet I know, it is a play. However, I've never seen it. I've just read the play a zillion times. Hamlet was a brilliant character. Only Falstaff may surpass. Brilliance without wisdom is indeed a tragedy.
I have to name one new one, "just because." The Kite Runner. I literally hated that book, but it changed completely the way I saw Afganistan.
ok, off the top of my head:
The Drifters
The Source
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 parts of the trilogy)
everything by O'Henry together
?
Barrack Obama's 1st and 2nd Autobiographies.
Heh, heh, heh.
1. The Bible, King James Version.
2. Atlas Shrugged (but I prefer her non-fiction).
3. Animal Farm.
4 & 5 ??
Jordan Mills on choosing Tech:
“It’s a great experience seeing them play. It was a good atmosphere. The fans stood up the whole game and never sat down. They have a great fan base.”
Okay, you are officially on my prayer list. Can anybody let me know his real name?
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