What is the most influential book you've read?

[Rand al'Thor]

The Prince of Thorns & its sequel 'The King of Thorns'.
Lawrence's language pulled me in.

awesome series..damn the protagonist so badass...xd

 

[guiltybird]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, and Anthem by Ayn Rand.

 

[l Forgotten l]

Island of the blue dolphins

 

[Keyblade Master Roxas]

Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut. It's a strange book but amazing.

 

[Shadow light]

DIGITAL FORTRESS by Dan brown its an intriguing book

 

[Hawk of Darkness]

Friedrich Nietzsche's "Thus spoke Zarathustra", especially the following lines:

"The strong spirit demands to carry much, but finds that what it is given to carry is not enough, it demands only the most difficult. This spirit piles on whatever it can, becoming a Camel. This camel bears the weight of his task, but eventually finds his work meaningless and illusory, he finds himself, in a spiritual desert.

This Camel no longer finds meaning in the values subscribed to him; he is a spirit too strong to take on this task, he no longer wishes to bear the weight of values that do not come from his own. The Camel becomes a Lion, the spirit that fights against these false values in order to find his own place, his own freedom. The Lion is the no-saying spirit, but his role is not only to deny, but to make room for new yeas.

This Lion becomes a Child. What is this child? He is a new beginning. This requires first a forgetting of the old, and then, the start of a new game. He is the beginning of a new wheel, his piece the center of a motion that picks up new pieces along its path, creating a new world along its way."

Indeed, Nietzsche was more of a mystic than a philosopher. I value the spirit of the lion highly.

 

[Eternal Solitude]

Paradise Lost!

Satan thought me a lot :leaf:

Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream
Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

 

[xLucyx]

I think Harry Potter a little bit...but when I was younger, Jip en Janneke I think. Books don't influence my life that much I gues

 

[Baka Sennin]

We for me (1984 was inspired from it I think). 1984 and animal farm as well, amazing books and its unbelievable how telling their message is today

 

[Virwield]

Oliver Twist, 1984, Animal farm, Harry Potter series, Perks of being a wallflower

 

[Felix]

Twain's autobiography, Fahrenheit 451, The Invisible Man, Around the World in Eighty Days, War and Peace, 1984, and for sure i forgot something.

 

[Tenasa Uchiha]

Green eggs and ham yall

 

[Callypigia]

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I don't mean this book in particular, but Little Golden Books. This book is just a good example of how those books influenced so many children in America. I don't know if kids still read those.

 

[MuerteMiAmigo]

not my favorite book........actually i hate this ****ing book. Catcher in the rye. but what i took out of it was, 'dont tell people good luck, because it implies that they need luck and are otherwise incapable of doing what they are trying to do'.....so yea

 

[Princess Kaguya]

Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy.

 

[Scooby Doo]

The Miserables is one.

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Junkie Existentialism that actually speaks to me more than any religion or science could.

 

[Yüme1]

I forget the actual name, but it was about a thieving rat poor kid in the slums of China, who was guided on the path to becoming a Monk by a man.