Books that changed my mind

[glenatron]

I don't join in a lot with memes, but this is something I've been thinking about today so I thought I'd share and it would be interesting for me if anyone else reading this felt like paying it forward

Comments

[gemmabowles]

this is useful, i have ideas for future reads now!

[stu_the_elder]

You'd better have read the Chronicles earlier than in the last five years, my lad. Them's essentials!

- Crumpwright ;)

[glenatron]

Yes, closer to 20 years in that case, I'd guess...

[z111]

Could not cope with True Horsemanship through Feel or Slaughterhouse 5. :-(

I esp feel bad about the latter

[z111]

The talky, down home thing of THtF bugged the crap out of me. I wanted to shake him.

Slaughterhouse 5...I dunno. I feel like a total luser but I just couldn't get into it. I read about 50pp and gave up. :-(

[glenatron]

I think that's because he basically dictated it and it's transcribed word for word from what he said. It took me a long time to get into his mode of talking but as soon as I did I began to really appreciate his way of describing stuff. He was in his nineties when the book was written and still one of the greatest horsemen in the world, so I think he had earned the right to have the book written that way...