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Fiction

zippythepinhead

(374 posts) Fri Dec 16, 2016, 01:31 PM Dec 2016

What novel influenced your life the most?

"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, which I read as a young teenager turned me into a beatnik for the rest of my life.

http://www.shmoop.com/on-the-road/

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What novel influenced your life the most? (Original Post) zippythepinhead Dec 2016 OP

Tom Wolfe's hermetic Dec 2016 #1

funny zippythepinhead Dec 2016 #3

Michener's Hawaii Leith Dec 2016 #2

Atlas Shrugged resistance2016 Dec 2016 #4

hermetic

(8,965 posts)

1. Tom Wolfe's

Reply to zippythepinhead (Original post)

Fri Dec 16, 2016, 03:05 PM

Dec 2016

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test which turned me into a hippie for the rest of my life.

zippythepinhead

(374 posts)

3. funny

Reply to hermetic (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 16, 2016, 09:01 PM

Dec 2016

made me laugh!

Leith

(7,862 posts)

2. Michener's Hawaii

Reply to zippythepinhead (Original post)

Fri Dec 16, 2016, 05:59 PM

Dec 2016

It's one of the books I need to reread every 5 years or so. I love not only the sweeping tale of how the islands came into being, but how people came, lived together, and added to the rich culture already there.

resistance2016

(86 posts)

4. Atlas Shrugged

Reply to zippythepinhead (Original post)

Fri Dec 16, 2016, 09:34 PM

Dec 2016

But while a lot of teenagers read it and become libertarians or worse, it had the exact opposite effect on me. I'd kill myself before I say anything positive about the writer of that book.

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