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  • Jerrypeoples
    Jerrypeoples Posts: 1,541 Member
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    the one that pops into my head is Watership Down by Richard Adams.. I was a kid and it was a HUGE book I didn't think I was ready for....that book sparked my love of reading...and to this day I reread it once a year or so..

    i will watch the DVD ever few months. it is that good.
  • Dino_bacon2112
    Dino_bacon2112 Posts: 341 Member
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    Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez

    That book gave me a terrible headache, but it was really good.

    Ghost Child still makes me shudder. I read it way too young...
  • Jgal8123
    Jgal8123 Posts: 1,378 Member
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    The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
    Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  • TheSlorax
    TheSlorax Posts: 2,401 Member
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    The Bell Jar

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Catcher in the Rye

    HP

    eta: forgot The Hidden Face of Eve, love Dr. Sadaawi
  • arghbowl
    arghbowl Posts: 1,179 Member
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    1.) Gentleman Practice - Buddy Wakefield
    2.) Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
    3.) Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • doug_pierce
    doug_pierce Posts: 255
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    On Liberty - J.S. Mill

    Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

    First You Have to Row a Little Boat - Richard Bode
  • kdb247
    kdb247 Posts: 326 Member
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    1. Psalms
    2. The Art of War
    3. Who Stole My Cheese
    4. He's Just Not That Into You:laugh:
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
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    Atlas Shrugged

    The Fountainhead

    1984

    The Rum Diary

    I could go on forever.
  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
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    Only 3?

    1) The Count of Monte Cristo
    2) Fahrenheit 451
    3) Celestine Prophecy

    I may have to read your number 3, seems as I agree to the other two


    Just read the first one, the other 2 in the series gets stupid and far fetched lol I've read everything by this guy, and Celestine Prophecy is the only one that I thought was profound.

    I would also like to add 1984 and a Brave New World. Super stoked that no one has put Twilight or Harry Potter books as life changing ;)
  • Candi_land
    Candi_land Posts: 1,311 Member
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    Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury

    The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath

    She's Come Undone-Wally Lamb

    Honorable Mention:

    Are you there God? It's me, Margaret-Judy Blume, Forever-Judy Blume, The Five People you meet in heaven-Mitch Albom, A Child called 'it"- Dave Pelzer The Outsiders-S.E Hinton
  • Docmahi
    Docmahi Posts: 1,603 Member
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    harry potter/game of thrones - minds blown
  • DaeNoMite
    DaeNoMite Posts: 30 Member
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    "Where the Red Fern Grows" - read in 2nd grade and fell in love with reading ever since
    "The Count of Monte Cristo" - read in 96, geniusly written historical fiction, realized how much of a nerd I am inbetween sports
    "Think Rich Grow Rich" - read in 03, feel in love with self improvement books, started my own business
  • bheathfit
    bheathfit Posts: 451 Member
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  • michelefrench
    michelefrench Posts: 814 Member
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    the one that pops into my head is Watership Down by Richard Adams.. I was a kid and it was a HUGE book I didn't think I was ready for....that book sparked my love of reading...and to this day I reread it once a year or so..

    i will watch the DVD ever few months. it is that good.

    I haven't watched it in years!! Thanks for the reminder! !:flowerforyou:
  • aprildaguilar
    aprildaguilar Posts: 1,926 Member
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    The Third Life of Grange Copeland - Alice Walker
    Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
    Kindred - Octacia Butler
    All Iceberg Slim Novels
  • Kearsed
    Kearsed Posts: 70 Member
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    Any book that teaches you about how to save your money.
  • asgard825
    asgard825 Posts: 1,516 Member
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    Body Fat Solution
    Changes
    Thor 176
  • PeanutButterLuver71
    PeanutButterLuver71 Posts: 220 Member
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    The Last Lecture
  • PaulaKro
    PaulaKro Posts: 5,693 Member
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    The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
    Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    Gonna have to read Albom since the other two hit so close to home.

    Me:

    The Iliad & the Odyssey (didn't end up being an archeologist, though)
    Anything by Andre Norton (read in high school)
    Ender's Game (ignore the author, loved the book)
  • Fit2Strip
    Fit2Strip Posts: 280 Member
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    Man's Search For Meaning
    On Equilibrium
    The Metamorphosis (short story, but really good)

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