Books that have influenced your life

[Twisted_Logic]

Mine is definitely this



I hope Mr J D Salinger dies so we can read his posthumous novels

[Twisted_Logic]

quotes from the book

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 10

It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13


I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 26

[zingii]

Does reading news from the internet qualify me as a book reader?
If so i usually go to gedoweb and also check hiiraan.

[Twisted_Logic]

Does reading news from the internet qualify me as a book reader?
If so i usually go to gedoweb and also check hiiraan.

No. Reading Ghetto News makes you a country pumpkin

[zingii]

[Paddington Bear]

Great choice. But don’t they use it now as a teaching tool for Primary School kids?

Of course, with a title like that for your thread you are just dying for one of the various affected faithful to come and declare that the holy book changed their lives! Which is true (I suppose) but still comes across as fake and stating the obvious. So, there, I saved them the trouble.

No book changed my life but many enhanced it.

[Ka darag]

Great choice. But don’t they use it now as a teaching tool for Primary School kids?

Of course, with a title like that for your thread you are just dying for one of the various affected faithful to come and declare that the holy book changed their lives! Which is true (I suppose) but still comes across as fake and stating the obvious. So, there, I saved them the trouble.

No book changed my life but many enhanced it.

LOOOL THEY USE IT FOR GCSE ENGLISH!!!

[Ka darag]

IF ANYBODY SAID A BOOK(OTHER THAN THE QURAN) INFLUENCED THEIR LIFE, THEY ARE CHATTING SHIT!

[Paddington Bear]

^^ Oh you hopeless girl.

GCSE no less?
I maybe an old fogey but I seem to keep up with stuff. In what year do they do Macbeth?

[Ka darag]

^^ Oh you hopeless girl.

GCSE no less?
I maybe an old fogey but I seem to keep up with stuff. In what year do they do Macbeth?

YEAR 9
I AINT HOPELESS BUT I DNT BELIEVE A BOOK CAN INFLUENCE YOUR LIFE!

[Paddington Bear]

It can, Ka darag.

Here, come closer and hold my hand. I am going to tell you a story and it may be a bit upsetting or scary. When it gets too much for you, just squeeze my hand. Ok?

Picture a young woman who is contemplating suicide. Life has not been kind to her. She had a boyfriend who cheated on her with her own best friend. She had a pet rabbit that got slaughtered by the neighbour’s Alsatian. She broke a couple of her nails and the bellybutton piercing that she recently had and was very proud of, got infected and is letting out oodles of pus. The poor girl is depressed and wants to end it all. Her life is unbearable and she’s rotting from the inside. She can’t take it anymore!

She sits in her room, opens up a box of painkillers and swallows the whole lot in one go! She sits down and waits for the poison to take effect. But, while she waits, she decides to pick up a book and read it. It turns out to be a good book. She gets engrossed in the story. She keeps turning the pages. She cries at the sad parts and laughs at the funny parts. She starts feeling dizzy. She can feel death slowly creeping up on her. She hopes she can hold it back until she finishes this story. The room starts the spin, the words on the page start to blur and her mind starts to shut down. But she REALLY wants to finish this book! So, she gets up, goes to the toilet and sticks a finger down her throat. She vomits a river of orange muck. But she’s still not feeling too well. She phones for an ambulance. Ten minute later, they come and take her to hospital. Her stomach gets bumped. She LIVES!....and all because she just wanted to see how the book ended!

(Ok, you can let go of my hand now).

[Ka darag]

It can, Ka darag.

Here, come closer and hold my hand. I am going to tell you a story and it may be a bit upsetting or scary. When it gets too much for you, just squeeze my hand. Ok?

Picture a young woman who is contemplating suicide. Life has not been kind to her. She had a boyfriend who cheated on her with her own best friend. She had a pet rabbit that got slaughtered by the neighbour’s Alsatian. She broke a couple of her nails and the bellybutton piercing that she recently had and was very proud of, got infected and is letting out oodles of pus. The poor girl is depressed and wants to end it all. Her life is unbearable and she’s rotting from the inside. She can’t take it anymore!

She sits in her room, opens up a box of painkillers and swallows the whole lot in one go! She sits down and waits for the poison to take effect. But, while she waits, she decides to pick up a book and read it. It turns out to be a good book. She gets engrossed in the story. She keeps turning the pages. She cries at the sad parts and laughs at the funny parts. She starts feeling dizzy. She can feel death slowly creeping up on her. She hopes she can hold it back until she finishes this story. The room starts the spin, the words on the page start to blur and her mind starts to shut down. But she REALLY wants to finish this book! So, she gets up, goes to the toilet and sticks a finger down her throat. She vomits a river of orange muck. But she’s still not feeling too well. She phones for an ambulance. Ten minute later, they come and take her to hospital. Her stomach gets bumped. She LIVES!....and all because she just wanted to see how the book ended!

(Ok, you can let go of my hand now).

[Basra-]

Salinger is retarded. He talks and sounds like a sex horned loner.I think he is one of the geeky, awkward nerd types who never got a decent sex life in his life. Why will you be talking about girls all around?? Besides Twisted-- how twisted of u to pray for your favorite authors death? Will his unpublished work posthumously be any more interesting? Thats just twisted. But i like it.

[Paddington Bear]

Have you read the book, Basra? It is supposed to be told by a fifteen year old kid who has mental problems and hates school and everything else. It's 50( or was it 60s) America. The author got the story and feel perfectly.

[Basra-]

[quote="Paddington Bear"]Have you read the book, Basra? It is supposed to be told by a fifteen year old kid who has mental problems and hates school and everything else. It's 50( or was it 60s) America. The author got the story and feel perfectly. [/quote]


PB

No i have not read it. I dont liking reading American novelists.They are intellectually bereft. The only american authors i read are Biographers, which doesnt require that much of intellect but reportage ability. English Authors are the best, they are competent in every capacity.

So Salinger was a loner because of his mental issues. I see, i guessed or thought it was his nerdiness.