Folks Online List 30 Books That Blew Their Minds And Changed Their Lives

It's interesting that people in these comments mention how awful religious people are. I love the Bible and am a Christian. According to some comments in this section, that would make me mentally disturbed, guilty of not reading it honestly but cherry picking, and being narrow-minded. You can disagree with my religious beliefs and that's okay. I still respect you as a person and wish all the best for you. I know some Christians can be obnoxious but so can some people who don't like Christianity. I guess what I'm saying is maybe treating others the way we'd want to be treated isn't too bad an idea.

Me, too. I studied many religious texts to try to change my mind at one point. I was wondering why I was not seeing what others see.

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Me too. It was written by men with vivid imaginations

Nice. I mean, the opposite happened with me reading the bible, but good that you've thought through these issues!

Visiting other places of worship with my church youth group in hs made me an atheist...how could we all be right...so I knew none of us were right.

fantastic book, original swedish movies were amazing too!

The meticulous and painstaking research described in the book was oddly fascinating,

I looooove this book!

My all time favorite female character. Brilliant, strong, fearless everything on her terms

I had this book memorized as a kid, I can still recite a lot of it... My dad's an English professor and it probably pains him that I consider this the best literature to have ever come out of England!

What's wrong with being drunk? Ask a glass of water.

Learning to read for pleasure is a hell of a valuable lesson, especially books with good stories and dialogue. One of a friends two boys was not a reader, save for the minimum necessary for school I dug out a couple of my favourite light reads from when I was younger and added a couple of similar. Intended just to leave them laid around, but my friend hadn't read them either. When he heard my friend laughing her ass off at one, he picked it up and gave it a go,

A book that changed my life was another sci-fi -- Cinder by Marissa Meyer. I rarely read sci-fi but since it is a fairytale retelling I gave it a shot. I got through the audiobook in a matter of days and read through the rest of the series as fast as I could. I was going through a particularly painful time in my life with my parent's divorce and some serious undiagnosed mental health issues. I felt like I was losing everything, even things unrelated to the divorce since depression made me lose interest in all my hobbies. I didn't want to read and that broke my heart because kid me basically lived off of books. So I decided to try an audiobook from the library just to see if a different format would make any difference. And it did. I still took quite a while to get back into reading as much as I do now, but it's because of Cinder that I didn't give up hope that I could reclaim a passion I thought I had lost. And by the way, this was years ago and I am in a much happier place now. :)

This is Fun Sci-fi.

It's not fiction now

This was a must read when I was in the 7th grade. I was so scared for 1984 to come.

Unpopular opinion but I hate this book. I feel the only reason it's so hyped is because it's among the first works of fiction to discuss the dangers of a surveillance state. I personally found the book gross. Who wants to read about torture in such vivid detail. It's not even part of the plot, it's pretty much the whole thing. So depressing and weird and not as thought provoking as I expected. I think it's also because I'm a 2000's kid so the themes dicussed weren't that new, we literally live in a surveillances dystopia to some degree. I found animal farm to be a much better read.

Yeah, I'm just waiting for the GOP to change their symbol from an elephant to a face being stomped on by a boot...it will be double-plus good! /s

While I do highly respect Orwell and have gained heaps from studying it in class last year, I think it's important to remember Orwell is only a human. I've seen people regard the book as a holy one, but like all of us, he doesn't get everything correct

I had that book .... many years ago

This is my 2nd favorite book I had as a child! (My favorite will always be "Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree!")

It was the first time something broke the "4th wall" for me. I loved the illustrations. The way you physically progressed the story by turning the pages. The way the stuff from failed attempts accumulated at the bottom of the pages. It all made you a part of the book. That feeling comes back every time I read it then again reading it to my kids

I loved the irony of the book long before I knew what irony was.

I cannot believe that the best book in the world (and it's the original!) made it on to this list! I enjoyed it as a child and bought it for my daughter.

I'm an avid reader and was wracking my brains to pick out one book..... I was going to go with Mort by T Pratchett as it was the 1st book of his I read after picking a copy up on a holiday to Portugal when I was 16 and I really couldn't put it down after starting it. That was until I saw this post about the Hobbit. There was a Hobbit graphic adventure game for the ZX spectrum that came bundled with the copy of the book. If it hadn't been for the game I probably wouldn't have read the book, and if I'd not read that book there are so m any others from the same sort of genre I'd probably never have later read too.

I HARED THIS BOOK untill I was 11 and then I found out too it was just too hard to understand.

yes!! Love it

I went to three different elementary schools, one junior high, and threw different high schools (life circumstances). Some schools' required reading was great, but some wasn't. Luck of the draw.

its not my cup of tea.