Books

[steve from staten island]

Any books you've read ( besides the Bible) that have made a impact or affected you in any way. Not necessarily a great book but rather one that made a impact.
A book i recently read was written by a catholic priest, Father Patrick Desbois, entitled The Holocaust by bullets: A priests journey to uncover
When i tell you this book cause me unrest and grief I'm not overstating this. So much to the point id caution people wanting to read it. A very difficult read.
How about you?

 

[coronet68mx]

I don't know if you people know the work of Gabriel García Márquez but I really like his books under the gender of magic realism, specially one hundred years of loneliness and love In times of cholera.

 

[Aeronet]

The Gulag Archipeligo by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Cancer Ward is also good.
Agatha Christie.
Dostoyevsky.
The Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich (a book for a younger man).
S.E. Hinton.

 

[BigCountryMopar]

I read a series of books while in middle school by Dave Pelzer. The first one was titled ‘A Boy Called It’. To this day those books haunt me. It was a tough read. But once I had read the first one, I had to read them all. Apparently I was the only student to have ever checked them out ( I had read most everything else) and once I returned them the librarian decided to give them a read. She was so disturbed she removed them from our list of available books. It’s been a long time and I don’t recall a lot of specifics, but I remember how reading those books made me feel. It was a lot to take in at 12.

 

[Dibbons]

"The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright really got me thinking. Tries to explain why our love lives are always so screwed up.

 

[polywideblock]

Raymond E Feist from " magician" all the way to "magician's end " 29 books including "faerie tale"

 

[polywideblock]

Robin Hobb
from "assassin's apprentice " to "assassin's fate" 19 books in all

 

[Photon440]

I read a series of books while in middle school by Dave Pelzer. The first one was titled ‘A Boy Called It’. To this day those books haunt me. It was a tough read. But once I had read the first one, I had to read them all. Apparently I was the only student to have ever checked them out ( I had read most everything else) and once I returned them the librarian decided to give them a read. She was so disturbed she removed them from our list of available books. It’s been a long time and I don’t recall a lot of specifics, but I remember how reading those books made me feel. It was a lot to take in at 12.

I think the book you remember was called "A Child Called "It"'. But quite the story of abuse.

 

[Bb70charger500]

50 shade's of gray changed my life !!!!
My wife read that and raped me quiet often! Ripped my pants off in strange places too!
Buy it for your wife/girl friend ! Your little marine will thank you!!!!

 

[Big Bad Dad]

I am currently reading, and just about finished, "The Deep State". It is by former Congressman Jason Chaffetz, who was a Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. It is highly informative and deeply disturbing. Explains how the entrenched beauracrats and mid level employees of federal agencies hold on to power and obstruct any attempt to root them out. These are the long term "civil servants" that stay on at agencies even while the high level appointees or elected officials come and go every few years. They are very deeply rooted and just plain defy Congress and/or the President. And the amount of our Taxpayer dollars they suck up is astounding!

Pick up the book on Amazon for abut $18......

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[BigCountryMopar]

I think the book you remember was called "A Child Called "It"'. But quite the story of abuse.

Yes sir you are correct. It’s been a while since I’ve read them. It is certainly quite the story.

 

[odcics2]

"Pagenine."

"That's page nine, you fool!"

 

[NJRR]

When I was in my teens I was heavily into science fiction books. One of my favorite's is " Time Enough For Love" by Robert Heinlein. The main character is Lazarus Long, who was the oldest human alive, 2000 years old. He was an expert at everything having lived so long and was my idol.
I still fantasize about how my life would be if I live that long !!!

 

[FrnkNsteen]

I was really impacted at a young age by a graphic novel series called CarToons!

 

[Budnicks]

1968 Plymouth Factory Service Manual

 

[Photon440]

Decades ago, I picked up Frank Herbert's 'Dune' to read, but found it hard to fathom. I tried again, and after slogging through the first hundred pages, everything clicked and made perfect sense. I ended up buying every book in the series, including the ones written by Herbert's son Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

Speaking of service manuals, Dune was first published by Chilton.

 

[NJRR]

Decades ago, I picked up Frank Herbert's 'Dune' to read, but found it hard to fathom. I tried again, and after slogging through the first hundred pages, everything clicked and made perfect sense. I ended up buying every book in the series, including the ones written by Herbert's son Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

Speaking of service manuals, Dune was first published by Chilton.

Dune was another great series. I wasn't thrilled with the ones his son wrote, never as good as the original. They are coming out with a new Dune movie in a year or two. Hope it's better than the first one which was pretty cheesy.

 

[DeltaV]

 

[66 Sat]

No one's mentioned Christine. Read it as a young teen, must have read it another ten times over the years, great book about cars, girls, high school.