What books blew your mind upon first reading?

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  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    brain of c wrote:
    the princess bride.......william goldman
    good one !
    I have to read it again...
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  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    chronicles of narnia - cs lewis

    anything by roald dahl :p
    wah
  • eobo
    eobo Posts: 102
    illegal_pants wrote:

    anything by roald dahl :p

    ah dahl, the undisputed master of the twist. i recently read all of his more adult books (got the boxed set for my birthday) and i was able to rekindle the love i had for his literature when i was a kid. anyone who hasn't read his adult books really really really has to!!
    heh, keep her lit.

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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Fathers & Sons by Ivan Turgenev blew my mind, not because it changed the way I thought or anything, it's just the most beautifully written book I've ever read.

    Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut blew my mind in a different way.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • chinobaeza
    chinobaeza Santiago Posts: 2,489
    not to deep, not a novel....but when I read "The Damange Done" (Warren Fellows) I was in Thailand...was the perfect book for the perfect trip
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    I'm gonna go quite mainstream and say into thin air... it's not well written and it's nowhere near the best of it's genre... but it's introduced me to a type of book which have ALL blown me away completely. I've read many of the books mentioned in this thread and they haven't really done anything for me... but these books are simply so inspirational and mindblowing that I can't imagine reading any other kinda book ever again... I've found my reading niche :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Most Marquez novels blow my mind. Love him.

    When I was quite young, I read 'The picture of Dorian Gray', Oscar Wilde. I read it at least once a year. There's just something about that book. Same with 'The Master and Margarita' by Bulgakov.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    This one, and most of his subsequent work, simply because I'd never bothered with the genre before and considered it laughable, then a friend had me read this and I couldn't put it down (and his sequels).
  • The Champ
    The Champ Posts: 4,063
    'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    When I read the last 2-3 paragraphs of The Grapes of Wrath it really did blow me away when rosashran breasts feeds that old man who is dying of starvation. That just hit me like a ton of bricks. It just showed the desperation so bluntly.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    PJ1973 wrote:
    Slaughterhouse-V. I reread this a few years ago and it blew me away again.

    One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

    To Kill A Mockingbird


    You got 3 of my top 10 on there and is 1973 your birth year. Mine too, if so.

    Also, everyone shoud read these:

    Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut
    Desert Solitaire & The Monkeywrench Gang - Edward Abbey
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  • sweet adeline
    sweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    "what uncle sam really wants" by noam chomsky.

    forever changed the way i think about u.s. foreign policy and our political system in general.
  • natureboy46
    natureboy46 Posts: 165
    The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
    In the land of the little kings
    Profit is the only thing
    And everywhere the little kings
    Are getting away with murder
    - Paul Kelly

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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    redrock wrote:
    Most Marquez novels blow my mind. Love him.

    When I was quite young, I read 'The picture of Dorian Gray', Oscar Wilde. I read it at least once a year. There's just something about that book. Same with 'The Master and Margarita' by Bulgakov.
    now THAT was weird!!
    (and when/if they make the film they need Pilate and Tremor Christ in the soundtrack ;))

    I've got Picture of Dorian Gray but haven't got around to read it yet..
  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    Slammerkin's my favourite book. I loved it when I first read it and I still love it now.

    For anybody that's not heard of it, I'm not gonna say anything about it because it's kind of depressing. :o
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Alright...there is really something wrong with me...I got turned on reading this thread. :p
    Between the books, the men, the books and the men.....
    le sigh.....


    Oh edited to say Fountainhead blew my mind too!!!! I haven't found many that enjoyed it the way I did.
    And obviously Catcher in the Rye.

    One that was not mentioned: The Kite Runner
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    Slaughterhouse-Five and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Collin wrote:
    Slaughterhouse-Five and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.


    I petty much figured that nobody knew who he was based on the responses I got to a lengthy post I submitted the day he died this last year. Anyway, he really does have some tremendous novels besides Slaughterhouse...

    In fact, I have an autographed copy of Mother Night. And yes, I would kill a man for even looking at it!
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Alright...there is really something wrong with me...I got turned on reading this thread. :p
    Between the books, the men, the books and the men.....
    le sigh.....

    Is it OK that I was turned on that YOU are turned on by men who like books? That's hottt.
    TrixieCat wrote:
    Oh edited to say Fountainhead blew my mind too!!!! I haven't found many that enjoyed it the way I did.
    And obviously Catcher in the Rye.

    One that was not mentioned: The Kite Runner

    I bought the Kite Runner but my dog chewed it up before I got to read it.
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    Tales of the fourth grade nothing, superfudge
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