What books do you define yourself by?

What books do you define yourself by?

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09/20/09 12:44 AM
FusedGhost member Joined: 02/09/09 Posts: 1,196	Fight Club (surprise, surprise) Catcher in the Rye (surprise again) The Accidental - Ali Smith 1984 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (particularly for the irony of it all)
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09/21/09 6:37 AM
seeingred member Joined: 08/25/09 Posts: 259	god bless you, mr rosewater all glass family books by salinger a confederacy of dunces fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72 our band could be your life
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09/21/09 12:20 PM
heresy002 member Joined: 05/07/08 Posts: 346	I don't define myself by the books I read I read them wheneveer I want Whenever I'm In the mood to No Definition for me
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09/22/09 9:27 PM
jlblank001 member Joined: 09/15/09 Location: virginia beach%2C va Posts: 26	identity is illusion there is choices, deeds, and results
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09/28/09 11:52 PM
Synthetic member I Joined: 11/28/07 Location: Naboo%2C NC Posts: 311	Hmmm I don't think I'd say my book choices define as much as they help me make sense of the things around me when I feel chaotic and unfocused. But my choices would be: The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasure of Mathematics - Robert & Ellen Kaplan The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero - Robert & Ellen Kaplan Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl The Art of War - Sun Tzu High Fidelity - Nick Hornby A New Kind of Science - Dr. Stephen Wolfram
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09/29/09 9:34 AM
heatherette333 member It's Barbie, bitch Joined: 03/10/09 Location: ROC city Posts: 7,370	My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler. (kidding)
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10/09/09 4:51 PM
nieke1975 member You no take candle ! Joined: 12/02/08 Location: Belgium Posts: 23	Wuthering heights. I have a 'thing' with this book. I must've read it over 50 times by now ...
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12/14/09 1:07 AM
epilepticgodzilla member Joined: 09/04/08 Location: San Fransisco Posts: 36	Rant by Chuck Palhanuik (and stranger than fiction to a lesser extent.) Iron Council by China Mieville (political allegory and amazing steampunk? count me in!)
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12/14/09 9:35 AM
b4k4n3k0 member Joined: 03/17/09 Location: SLO county CA Posts: 137	Survivor Stranger in a Strange Land Childhood's End
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12/15/09 6:28 AM
Spettro member sweat and perry ellis. Joined: 12/14/09 Location: a warm dark place Posts: 78	Atlas Shrugged - everything else pales in comparison Chameleon To Kill A Mockingbird Hannibal (because there's something in the mood of this book that touches me)
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12/15/09 8:13 AM
jpeck member Joined: 12/10/09 Location: South Posts: 584	The Great and Secret Show -- Clive Barker Dark Tower--King Generation X -- ?
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01/10/10 5:57 PM
AdrianBunn member Joined: 11/27/07 Location: Australia Posts: 32	Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
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01/17/10 5:36 AM
romeisburning member NO THIS IS PATRICK Joined: 11/27/07 Location: New Jersey Posts: 68	Slaughterhouse-Five, Goethe's Faust, The Stranger, Atlas Shrugged.
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01/31/10 2:10 PM
jeffreyzed member Joined: 09/04/08 Location: London Ontario Canada Posts: 122	hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. i am totally stranded in some interstellar mission and working in an alien kitchen on a ship to get me to my next place.
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05/13/10 9:44 AM
9Inch9Nails9 member Joined: 01/28/09 Location: Clearwater%2C Flordia Posts: 758	Clive Barker - The Hellbound Heart Stephen King- Needful Things
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05/16/10 10:18 AM
EachWishRezigned member Joined: 06/25/09 Location: the heart of the matter Posts: 190	Atlas Shrugged The Bell Jar Red Dragon
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06/14/10 2:06 AM
Amandus member Joined: 06/14/10 Location: Mobile%2C Alabama Posts: 12	I don't (or, rather, cannot) define myself with books. I've read many religious texts but none of them were defining for me.
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09/20/10 11:02 PM
FusedGhost member Joined: 02/09/09 Posts: 1,196	The Places in Between - Rory Stewart; non-fiction I'm majoring in anthropology and this book is my absolute favorite. It's about this British man who walks across Afghanistan from the west side to Kabul in the east side of the country. Along the way he meets all different kinds of people, tribes, some hostile with weapons and some with the gift of welcoming him as a friend.
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09/21/10 5:56 PM
ningamer member Joined: 08/16/08 Posts: 8,046	I seem to take a lot from The Neverending Story. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2011 12:59AM by ningamer.
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03/11/11 10:20 AM
vampirebunnypersonaljesus member Joined: 11/27/07 Posts: 2,836	It's hard to pick books to define me... but a couple that I've mentioned here in the forum would do it. Intensity by Dean Koontz and Night by Elie Wiesel.
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05/07/11 12:36 PM
Averus_32 member Joined: 09/05/08 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 298	Nineteen Eighty Four ...and the last chaper of A Clockwork Orange.
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05/07/11 2:15 PM
DistantStorm member Joined: 04/30/08 Location: New York City Posts: 598	Steppenwolf- Herman Hesse Tao Te Ching- Lao Tsu Winesburg, Ohio- Sherwood Anderson
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06/29/11 3:25 PM
thedownwardslip member Joined: 10/18/08 Location: dublin kingswood ireland Posts: 504	[faiipdeoaid.blogspot.com]
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10/09/11 10:12 PM
survivalistwoman member nothing can stop me now Joined: 10/20/08 Location: somewhere Posts: 139	The Stranger by Albert Camus. It exactly portrays the kind of attitude I'd like to have at life.
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10/09/11 10:12 PM
survivalistwoman member nothing can stop me now Joined: 10/20/08 Location: somewhere Posts: 139	Synthetic posted: Hmmm I don't think I'd say my book choices define as much as they help me make sense of the things around me when I feel chaotic and unfocused. But my choices would be: The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasure of Mathematics - Robert & Ellen Kaplan The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero - Robert & Ellen Kaplan Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl The Art of War - Sun Tzu High Fidelity - Nick Hornby A New Kind of Science - Dr. Stephen Wolfram Ohh how could I forget the Art of War!! Amazing book!!!
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10/11/11 12:59 PM
helenbedd2 member Joined: 09/10/09 Posts: 3	I wouldn't say that I define myself by any particular book, but am inspired by these books: Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon (all of his books are great) The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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10/12/11 9:51 AM
Mutleyonacid member Joined: 04/20/09 Location: Sunny Stoke-on-Trent%2C U Posts: 85	Again, I don't define myself by the books I read but here are a few favourites: I, Claudius by Robert Graves Goodbye To All That by ditto The Worst Journey In The World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (people who moan about the weather should read this!) Spike Milligan's war memoirs Most of Joseph Conrad's stuff too.
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10/13/11 11:32 AM
HurtNoMore member Anduril Joined: 09/17/08 Location: MA Posts: 1,039	1984 Moby Dick Mother Night Cat's Cradle
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