I'm inviting everyone who reads my blog...if you have read this far...to list on their blogs 5 books that have changed their life...i hope this hasn't been done before (in the many corners of the intranet)
It was difficult to just pick 5 but here are mine in the order I read them.
1.The Collected Works of Dorothy Parker
2. Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
3 Silent Spring Rachel Carson
4. Fatu Hiva Thor Hyerdahl
5. The Life and Times of Michael K JM Coetzee
And why....
#1 My father gave me a volume of Dorothy Parker after my first heartbreak, I laughed and survived many more with it's help. She is one of only 2 poets I can recite with authority.
#2 War is hell This book turned me into a pacifist.
#3 We need to protect our planet This book turned me green
#4 This book made me question organized religion , missionaries and it was an amazing adventure story.
#5. I can't describe it, our connection to our spiritual self and nature, dignity
I read the first four books before I was 20 and the last one after I was 40. I read hundreds if not thousands more in between but those first 4 really shaped me into person I am today. Thanks Rachel for the mental exercise.
1 comment:
hooray! thanks so much for sharing your 5 books, i've read slaughterhouse 5, which is an all-time fav of mine...now i'll have to look into the others :)
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