[tdarko]

pshreck,

some may have read more ambitious books and books that are more meaningful in a broad sense but that may not mean that its going to affect each person the same way.

for instance, one of my books would be Watership Down- by Richard Adams, nothing special and the reason isn't even because the words within it changed my life but b/c it was the first book i ever read. my dad gave it to me when i was 8 and made me read it, difficult for the age but would talk to me about every chapter and made sure i understood all concepts and this was the book that introduced me into fiction and literature and my love for it.

if i were to just list the book you might think, "watership down? wtf?" but there are somtimes reasons some books affect others and sometimes time periods in which they were read in which they could be meaningful etc. a book can mean somthing to one person and somthing completely different to another, its something you shouldn't be pretentious about.

sincerely,

~td

p.s i am not sure what my second book would be, there are too many to choose from...my freshman year of college i didn't know there was an attendance policy and i have been missing class and just turning in the papers and attending the tests. i had an "A" avg., but the teacher was going to fail me. i told her i had a death in the family, not sure if she believed it...but she let me pick a book from a list and gave me 3 days to read it and write a 20 page paper on it. tough to do. i did it on Ralph Ellison's- Invisible Man, not only was it a great book but i wrote a great paper which allowed me to pass. so i guess that would be my second choice.