A book that changed your life.

[ste d' indica]

Argh, @tim gabbott beat me to it!

 

[Tipp blue]

Herman Melville's Moby Dick

 

[Tipp blue]

Herman Melville's Moby [Poor language removed]

Forgot that moby's surname was a poor language removed issue.... Please Mods don't ban me not this week please please no.

 

[Billysgingham.]

School books The pearl, and of mice and men.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

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This one for me as a kid - it’s just so beautifully written and just hooked me from start to finish.

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This one as a teenager - it’s still one of my all time favourite books.

Incredibly dark, brutal and with an ending like no other.

Shaped my future reading as an adult.

My yr 10 English teacher loaned me The Wasp Factory, i was blown away, but The Crow Road was the one from Banks that got to me more... I like a realistic setup where you can relate to most of the characters.

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

Easy Way To Stop Smoking by Allen Carr.

 

[Tipp blue]

School books The pearl, and of mice and men.

I did to kill a mockingbird, awesome book

 

[Billysgingham.]

I did to kill a mockingbird, awesome book

Never read the book but I've seen the film.

 

[COYBL25]

My yr 10 English teacher loaned me The Wasp Factory, i was blown away, but The Crow Road was the one from Banks that got to me more... I like a realistic setup where you can relate to most of the characters.

I love the Crow Road too, but the Wasp Factory does it for me.

It’s just so vivid and the ending is just stunning / horrendous in equal measure.

Considering it was his debut book, it was just mind blowing.

 

[Tipp blue]

Never read the book but I've seen the film.

One of the better film adaptions of a book there is. Gregory peck was great as Atticus

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

I love the Crow Road too, but the Wasp Factory does it for me.

It’s just so vivid and the ending is just stunning / horrendous in equal measure.

Considering it was his debut book, it was just mind blowing.

It is mind blowing, but I'm a sucker for sentimentality... so Crow Road is my favourite Banks book. I love The Bridge also.

 

[obc]

 

[SAF1878]

Circa 1965, Florence Melly Junior school in Walton.

We read this as a class, the first book that absolutely gripped me.

It engendered a lifelong love of books and reading, as well as an ongoing love affair with Berlin.

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I remember reading this book to my Nan when she was ill in bed, really weird that my memory has been triggered.
I need to buy it online, many thanks for sharing.

 

[Gwlacticos]

The Naked Island by Russell Braddon. An Aussie soldier who was caught up in the fall of Singapore in WW2. Ended up on the infamous Railway. I read it while I was stationed in Singapore, less than 10 years from the end of the war.

On holiday at the moment, and book I’m reading is The Forgotten Highlander. Alistair Urquhart, with the Gordon Highlanders. Taken prisoner in Singapore and sent to work on the railway and bridge on the Kwai. Utterly horrific.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

At a low point in my life I read the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I found it emotionally inspiring and incredibly uplifting.

A story that you can really relate to in this material world. It digs deep into our primal need and continuous search for wealth and riches, when all along the greatest treasure there is, is the journey of life itself and the people you meet on that journey and the experiences you have.

if you haven't read it yet then you're missing something in your life.