3 books of fiction that shaped your life

**capocannoniere** · 11-30-2022, 03:27 AM

Oh, I forgot to add Thoreau's Walden.

Nowadays most of that book feels like bullshit from a misanthrope. But at 14 y/o, "discovering" that money and status were not the most important things in the world and that technology is a disgrace was mind blowing.
Was Thoreau a pre-Incel?

**Richmondbread** · 11-30-2022, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by Colonel Frank Grimes

You read Catcher in the Rye in 5th grade? That's a book for teenagers. A ten year old wouldn't understand the book.

I understood the symbolism pretty well.

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**Richmondbread** · 11-30-2022, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by BakersfieldChimp

I know a lot of people take the Bible as fiction
I never imagined you would be one of them.

My mistake. I thought this thread was about all kinds of books

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**Richmondbread** · 11-30-2022, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Chron

A rare moment of Ritchie breaking character

I didn't realize the thread was fiction only.

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**BakersfieldChimp** · 11-30-2022, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by Richmondbread

I understood the symbolism pretty well.

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I have no doubt you actually believe this.

**BakersfieldChimp** · 11-30-2022, 04:01 PM

I didn't get to "catcher in the rye" until college. I probably would have gotten more out of it if I got to it earlier.
I have more of an affinity towards "Franny and Zooey" .

I had a teacher in the tenth grade who got me hooked on Kafka.

I was carrying around my Lovecraft and Clive Barker. She told me if I wanted to read something really scary, I should go for the short story "In the penal colony"...
she was right... One

**Hyena** · 12-01-2022, 12:28 AM

Originally Posted by Richmondbread

No one has mentioned the Bible , which is actually a collection of books. "The Catcher in the Rye" is pseudo intellectual non sense. I read it in the 5th grade and even then I felt it was drivel.

EDIT: I didn't notice the OP designated fiction only books. The Bible is historical text as well as divine word of God

I should think that, were you to read Catcher in the Rye again, you would relate to the underachiever Holden Caulfield.

**ZeDude** · 12-23-2022, 05:09 PM

Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was such a fun and interesting read as well.

Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa.

**Incal** · 12-23-2022, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by ZeDude

Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa.

If you got a romanian copy I'd be very surprised.

**Vandor** · 12-23-2022, 09:51 PM

I've read a huge amount of Russian and foreign literature, but now I feel books just like movies don't shape my life. I prefer documental books for years aswell.

When i was kid on the border of teen ages I loved Stephen King's horror fiction.