Books that have influenced your life

[Paddington Bear]

American authors are great. and many of them compare well to English writers (if not better at times).

John Steinbeck wrote the Grapes Of Wrath (great book. You should get it if have a chance). He also wrote Of Mice And Men, I think (another great short story).

Harper Lee wrote: To Kill A Mocking Bird (great story about race and parenthood).

Edgar Allan Poe was the godfather of crime stories (Try to find the story called The Pit And The Pendulum or The Fall Of The House of Usher).

Mark Twain (no need to say what he's done).

Then there is Ernest Hemingway..someone once dared him to write the shortest story possible..he wrote: For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never been used.

[Basra-]

PB.... No dear, i insist- american authors are not 'deep' enough. I am not saying they are useless. I am sure there is a market for them. People like u and twisted will enjoy them.

The american authors u have mentioned--r all mediocre to me. Although i might give "John Steinbeck wrote the Grapes Of Wrath" aa chance--purely because of the title of his book. It sounds intelligent.

But the rest...

Disgusting. First of all, lets not even bring up Mark Twain and his charles dicken type of story telling. He is a less melodramatic version of dickens. A ruff edge one with a touch of american frontier hilly billy. This is the man who despised my Jane Austen so much as he is quoted saying..He wished he could dig her out her grave and beat her up with her collar shine bone. Thats mean and crude. At another time he visted a friend and the first thing he asked when shown to the library- he asked whether it contained any JA books. HE was told, no. This was his answer...

""Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." (Mark Twain)"


Soo......PB u can understand my detest for this man.


As to hemingway--well he was a sad little alcoholic godless creature who apparently had friends who knew his work to well ...(that it was toooo borriiing)...as to cleverly suggest to him or to 'dare him to write a short story' in hopes they will be spared from over yawning or read the whole damn thing in agony! A good writer makes a long long long book seem like it is too short! ITs all in the story telling abilities.


To kill a mocking bird is a depressive tale or therapy for the depressed and sexually abused souls.

As to Edgar -no comment. I dont like anything to do with manly issues like godfather type crimes!

[Paddington Bear]

I insist you read them all first then make your comments. The Grapes of Wrath is one of the greatest books ever written. The ending of hte book is the best I've ever seen.

You want 'deep' yet you keep getting lots in JA's books of silly girls and silly suiters? (not that I don't think they're good..but..err..I'm having a go at you here..look down and act guilty or something...)...

[Basra-]

PB@lol

U see thats the problem with u and others! U dismiss JA's books with silly romantic books! Believe she was one of the pioneer therapists i think. She knows the human condition so much that it startles me to think a young woman of low education, country living could be so intelligent as to know the insight of human psychic and brain. And at the same time entertain us with trivial mandane social interraction. Thats the problem with reading jA_-your brain gets open up so well that u seek either superior material or nothing at all.! I will read the The Grapes of Wrath nevertheless, i will let u know how it is. I will have to do a google research before reading of course! I will analyze it before i read it!

[Paddington Bear]

What was that, STOP? I'm not sure I quite got what book influenced your life. Tell us again please.

[Basra-]

Stop is jealous!

[zulaika]

i would say about 90% of the books i've read in all of my life were the venture of tasks(because i had to)...and not something i personally wanted to do out of leisure, therefore books yield little to no influence in my life...people on the other hand... now that is my forte..the study of people in plain site as best taught by the eye have proven most influential in my life.

[STOP!]

What was that, STOP? I'm not sure I quite got what book influenced your life. Tell us again please.

HAVE YOU EVER READ THAT BOOK?....LET ME TELL YOU THIS.....IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE IF YOU READ IT....BUT IF IT DOESN'T BOOOOOOOOOY YOU LOST IN THE HEREAFTER

[Basra-]

[quote="zulaika"]the study of people in plain site as best taught by the eye have proven most influential in my life. [/quote]


Ameen! Aint that the truth!

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[Paddington Bear]

What was that, STOP? I'm not sure I quite got what book influenced your life. Tell us again please.

HAVE YOU EVER READ THAT BOOK?....LET ME TELL YOU THIS.....IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE IF YOU READ IT....BUT IF IT DOESN'T BOOOOOOOOOY YOU LOST IN THE HEREAFTER

The one you posted? Only the once. But I read the one in Arabic millions of times.

Zulaika,
A student that only reads because she has to and prefers instead to watch what other people do? How dull!

[STOP!]

What was that, STOP? I'm not sure I quite got what book influenced your life. Tell us again please.

HAVE YOU EVER READ THAT BOOK?....LET ME TELL YOU THIS.....IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE IF YOU READ IT....BUT IF IT DOESN'T BOOOOOOOOOY YOU LOST IN THE HEREAFTER

The one you posted? Only the once. But I read the one in Arabic millions of times.

MILLIONS OF TIMES, AND YOUR TELLIN ME YOU FINISHED THAT ARABIC ONE .....NOW DNT BS ME!

[AbdiWahab252]

[zulaika]

Zulaika,
A student that only reads because she has to and prefers instead to watch what other people do? How dull!

of course....and you read what is written of people based on that very observation.....who's the student u or me??