Books that changed your life?
Changed may not be the right word. Influenced is probably more appropriate. They probably, in one way or another, influenced my writing style, my views about life, how I treat streetcats.
Here's my list of 'influential books'
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
The Secret Garden - Frances Burnett
Henry and June- Anais Nin
The Bell Jar and Ariel- Sylvia Plath
The Robber Bride and The Blind Assasin - Margaret Atwood
Hard Times- Charles Dickens
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neal Hurston
The Darling and Other Short Stories- Anton Chechov
Franny and Zooey- JD Salinger
Crime and Punishment and Notes from the Underground- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Einstein's Dreams- Alan Lightman
White Teeth- Zadie Smith
The Trial and The Metamorphosis- Kafka
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
Animal Farm- George Orwell
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Letters To A Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Story of an Hour and Other Stories- Kate Chopin
Books you have read more than once?
Some of the books I've read more than once:
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Possession, A. S. Byatt
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
Persuasion, Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Blind Assassin, Atwood
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Stranger and A Brave New World, Albert Camus
The Solitaire Mystery, Jostein Gaarder
The Lord of the Flies,
Henry and June, Anais Nin
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
A Room With a View, EM Forster
Far From The Madding Crowd,Thomas Hardy
So far from God, Ana Castillo
White Oleander, Janet Fitch
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos
Books you would want on a desert island?
The Bible, in case I turn over to the other side. You'll never know, really.
Books that made you laugh?
She's Come Undone, most PG Wodehouse books, books by Irving
One book that made you cry?
The Great Gatsby, for some unknown reason.
One book you wish you had written?
The Blind Assassin, The Blind Assassin,The Blind Assassin. Did I mention The Blind Assassin?
One book you wish had never been written?
There are a lot, really. Any Coelho book, The Horse Whisperer, and A Walk to Remember.Ugh. Is there any way that I can ask these authors to just... stop... writing?
One book you are currently reading?
A complete compilation of Edgar Allan Poe's works
One book you have been meaning to read?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. They say it's supposed to be good.
1 comment:
Since you said you have read Sons and Lovers more than twice, may I have your comments on anything you gained from this work? Well, it seems that it's not very influential to you as per your informtion.
I love this ficton very much and have compared some translations with the original to derive their sameness, similarity and differences. It's interesting.
I have also read some of the books on your list, like Lolita, To the Lighthouse, The Trial, etc. The Trial is one of my favourites.
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