The Bible-The extent to which this has impacted me will be determined on Judgement Day.
Philip Yancey-When the people who share my faith frustrate me, I usually turn to his writings.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller-This book made me want to become a writer.
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut-This book made me want to become a bad writer. 😉
Maybe the Bible didn't influence me as much as it should have. lookaround
The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
It made me start to question so many things about religion...
The Bible never had much of an impact on me since the whole time I was reading it, I was wondering how much of it was made up by a bunch of people who just wanted others to conform to their way of life (human nature rears its ugly head yet again).
"El Club Dumas" by Arturo Perez-Reverte
"The Dante Club" by Matthew Pearl
Both got me really into the world of book collecting and opened by eyes to a lot of author's I hadn't read taken the time to read before.
Plus, after reading El Club Dumas, I've gone on to read anything and everything I can get my hands on by Perez-Reverte. He quickly became one of my favorite authors. I also suggest his "The Flanders Panel". Oh and Pearl has a new one coming out next month about the mysterious death of Edgar Allen Poe.
Wow interesting question. When I think of the ending of the Bartiumus Triology it feels like theirs something missing inside of me. I am not just trying to sound poetic but I really do feel this way. When I read a series of books and the series ends it hurts because it's almost like I knew the charecters. And at the end of the trilogy one of the charecters I knew so well dies. I was left stunned and for a few hours I wondered why that happened. And now everytime I think about it, even though it doesn't hurt as bad, I feel as though their is a chunk missing out of me. A chunk larger than the other books I have read. It's almost as if I wanted to say goodbye to Nathaniel...
the book that had the most impact on me was Fever by... i'm not sure, but it was about when the yellow fever plague hit in like 1943 or something and it was really eyeopening.
other books have had an impact on me in a different way such as the harry potter books and the avalon books because their stories are set in different worlds that i can almost dissolve into when i read them, and it makes me think "wow, this is so good. what if these things are real??"