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What book has had the most impact on your life?

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By *hocmanx OP   Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

For me it was The Alchemist by Paulo Cuelho. Brilliantly eye openning book and I highly recommend it for anyone.

A close second is The Richest Man in Babylon.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"For me it was The Alchemist by Paulo Cuelho. Brilliantly eye openning book and I highly recommend it for anyone.

A close second is The Richest Man in Babylon. "

You just took the words out my mouth!!! Awesome book and totally life changing xxx

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By *he_Raggedy_DoctorMan
over a year ago

Some where in West Sussex

Hitchhikers trilogy

Oh but that's more than one book lol

As that's the case 1984

Its spooky the amount of things that have come true even new speak when you think about it

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - fantastic story. The abridged version took me a month

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple
over a year ago

chingford

We're going on a bear hunt.

I used to read it to my kids every night

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"We're going on a bear hunt.

I used to read it to my kids every night"

Do you know The Sad Story of Veronica Who Played The Violin? (or why the streets are not full of happy, dancing people)?

It's by David McKee, who did Mr Benn.

It's remarkable.

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By *ilary and DonaldCouple
over a year ago

chingford


"We're going on a bear hunt.

I used to read it to my kids every night

Do you know The Sad Story of Veronica Who Played The Violin? (or why the streets are not full of happy, dancing people)?

It's by David McKee, who did Mr Benn.

It's remarkable. "

I do like David McKee. His books and the illustrations are wonderful.

Sometimes I think I got more joy from them than the children.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Like many of my generation I learned to read and write with the assistance of Janet and John ......

So without doubt they must be the most influential books I've read

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By *orum TrollWoman
over a year ago

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from charm to harm. by greg zaffuto.

omg my whole life made sense after reading that. it's all about sociopaths and narcissists and how their minds work.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"We're going on a bear hunt.

I used to read it to my kids every night

Do you know The Sad Story of Veronica Who Played The Violin? (or why the streets are not full of happy, dancing people)?

It's by David McKee, who did Mr Benn.

It's remarkable.

I do like David McKee. His books and the illustrations are wonderful.

Sometimes I think I got more joy from them than the children. "

The Sad Story of Veronica is remarkable because on every page there's someone crying - it's a book filled with misery - but it's hilarious

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"We're going on a bear hunt.

I used to read it to my kids every night

Do you know The Sad Story of Veronica Who Played The Violin? (or why the streets are not full of happy, dancing people)?

It's by David McKee, who did Mr Benn.

It's remarkable.

I do like David McKee. His books and the illustrations are wonderful.

Sometimes I think I got more joy from them than the children.

The Sad Story of Veronica is remarkable because on every page there's someone crying - it's a book filled with misery - but it's hilarious "

Anytime Tales - The Sad Story of Veronica Who Played the Violin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-DEqDfji1A

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Faraway Tree

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"The Faraway Tree

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Shouldn't you have The New Testament?

#justsayin'

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By *educedWoman
over a year ago

Birmingham

The Bible!

Years and years of being 'forced'to read it has had an impact on me (alongside church and Sunday school, the community and my Catholic father).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the Ladybird 'how to...' books..

without them I wouldn't know how to do so much..stuff

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can remember the name of it, I'm sure it was a heavy dictionary of some sort thrown at my head by my English teacher.... big impact

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have read some brilliant book's that have given me amazing insights into different scenarios. The book I am going to name is not one I enjoyed the most but definitely one that stayed with me the most, it's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

The ones I have enjoyed the most have been kite runner, life of pi, the red tent and the sound of one hand clapping. Too many to narrow it down

Madame B

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"I have read some brilliant book's that have given me amazing insights into different scenarios. The book I am going to name is not one I enjoyed the most but definitely one that stayed with me the most, it's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Madame B"

That is really good, ambiguous and you're still not quite sure how it ends. Enjoyed that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can't remember the title or author but it was an ancient encyclopedia about gardening given to me by my greatgrandfather when i was a small boy. It set me on the path to being a professional gardener.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The hungry caterpillar

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I have read some brilliant book's that have given me amazing insights into different scenarios. The book I am going to name is not one I enjoyed the most but definitely one that stayed with me the most, it's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Madame B

That is really good, ambiguous and you're still not quite sure how it ends. Enjoyed that "

Loved the ending...It was left up to each individual reader

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Flowers in the attic. Was a hard read but very interesting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

American Psycho

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 & 3/4

I read it when I was 10 and it was the first time I read a book that was lent dumbed down or didn't talk down to me as a child, it was a book for adults that I could enjoy too.

I read every single book in the range too and I'm gutted there won't be any more as the author has died

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By *andVBCouple
over a year ago

Wrexham

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. They taught me words were playful creatures, able to amuse and excite, to confuse and delight.

Those books set a fire deep inside, one constantly in need of feeding.

Fortunately my parents had a well stocked bookcase so through my preteen years I was accompanied by Poe and Wells, Tolkien and Adams.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. They taught me words were playful creatures, able to amuse and excite, to confuse and delight.

Those books set a fire deep inside, one constantly in need of feeding.

Fortunately my parents had a well stocked bookcase so through my preteen years I was accompanied by Poe and Wells, Tolkien and Adams."

A nicely written post in itself.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

I remember reading the Tales of the City books when I was, I dunno, 15 or 16.

Those were like WOW! at the time.

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

I am just about to start on the life-changing magic of tidying by Marie Kondo. It is supposed to be very good.

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