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However...umh, probably the books which have influenced me the most are the works of Nietzsche, Feuerbach and Russell. Yep, I'd say so.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen

help how do you get that off of there?

Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack, a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

~ Leonard Cohen ~

Umh..it's gone ^^'

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? --Woody Allen

Kafka. He touches me, shatters me to tears and stays on my mind.

when are they going to stop making me mean more than I say? - Beckett

well...franny and zooey maybe. And kerouack´s works, when I was younger,-) And, of course Utrpení knížete Šternenhocha by L. Klíma - suppose it´s never been translated in English, hasn´t it?

I say people who wish to die after becoming immortal are weird.

Les Miserables had the most impact on me.

"At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out; they fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines - or you can live your life crossing them. But, there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross."

Personally I try not to get influenced by books. As for my writing, I'd say old Stephen King, Richard Laymon, James Herbert. But maybe that's just wishful thinking

My life - my mind - my words - my opinion.

Hello,

It is impossible to choose a book that has "influenced me the most". Many books have influenced me a lot in the past few years. Some of them dont have that "power" anymore, whereas some of them are still vivid in my mind.

Hermann Hesse's Glasperlenspiel is a complex and intelligent work of art written by one of the most impressive writers of the twentieth century on the difficult topic of human nature (as it is for most of his books). A must read. Twice.

Aldus Huxley's The Island is also on the top of my list. Many of our human problems would vanish if we had a society like that of The Island. Too bad the book ended like that ...

Γεια σας! Δανιήλ

PS: Aldus Huxley's The Island has NOTHING to do with a silly movie about cloning with the same name that was released a few years ago. Remembering I wasted my time watching that stuff still gives me the creeps...

Curta a vida pois a vida é curta.

Some books have changed my attitude in life one way or another. It was Salinger when I was in my teens, lately I've been very influenced by "Two serious ladies" by Jane Bowles, and as I grow up I look more and more as a Dostoievsky character ;P

Hi,

Good point.
I think we all look more and more like a Dostoievsky's character as we grow older.

He was a truly brilliant writer when it came to picture the human soul.

Δανιήλ

Curta a vida pois a vida é curta.

I don't think books have had much influence on me at any time. I read a lot, and the current one of the time seem very important, so perhaps I read too much....

I find the lyrics of songs have deeper meaning, and often lead to inspiration in my own writing.

I am the Cat which battled heroically on the night when the enemies of the Setting Sun were overwhelmed. And who is this Cat? This Cat is the Sun-God Ra himself... Book of the Dead

Most influential? I'm a little embarrassed. Well.... I see Kafka and Dickens and other classically great authors, but I have to go with Elizabeth Hayden's Rhapsody. It really showed me the importance of the power that words can have. You'll just have to read it to understand.

Listen.......smell something?

I think that would be Greil Marcus - Lipstick Traces... bit of a weird choice perhaps..

“We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.” - Hugo Ball
“The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.” - Tristan Tzara

I think everything I've ever read has had an impact to me, in a way or another. But I once read a book about Zen. That made changes to my way of thinking...

Who censors the censor, can I do that myself?

Mainly I read a lot of books that are written by American/Chinese authors and I have probably read about 30 of them. I guess it has to be Empress Orchid by Anchee min and the joy luck club by Amy Tan.

For me it's Anna Politkovskaja's about "A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya".

Non cum perfectis hominibus vivitur!

for me andrea bocelli "music of silence" very inspirational book

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, one of the truly original books in English (don't know enough other languages to comment!)

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I was in a Printing house in Hell & saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
In the first chamber was a Dragon-Man, clearing away the rubbish from a cave's mouth; within, a number of Dragons were hollowing the cave.
In the second chamber was a Viper folding round the rock & the cave, and others adorning it with gold silver and precious stones.
In the third chamber was an Eagle with wings and feathers of air: he caused the inside of the cave to be infinite, around were numbers of Eagle like men, who built palaces in the immense cliffs.
In the fourth chamber were Lions of flaming fire raging around & melting the metals into living fluids.
In the fifth chamber were Unnam'd forms, which cast the metals into the expanse.
There they were reciev'd by Men who occupied the sixth chamber, and took the forms of books & were arranged in libraries.

I would not say it that influenced, but the Henry Sienkiewicz's novel, the Quo Vadis was with very big effect onto me. I believe that the author deserved that, though not for this novel, got a literary Nobel Prize.

These are the words which influenced me most:

Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.
Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;
But yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.

The literary character that formed my own personality most is - I must admit - Margaret Mitchell's Scarlett O'Hara. The second one is Henry James' Isabel Archer.

I think the book that influenced me the most till today must be a book about Hitler by Ian Kershaw.

Homo homini lupus ~ the human is a human, a wolf

it was a book of some unknown psychologist which really explained what psychology was...but it was more a practical influence.
Many books impressed and influenced me, but Dostoyevski's were somehow the deepest.

Interesting choice! Kershaw is certainly one of the most influential historians (for me anyway) but I'm suprised if he's influenced your life in a more general way

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood; made me realise that to truly love a story, there doesn't always have to be a tangible or clear ending.

The Bible also taught me not to take everything as gospel (excuse the pun!)

"They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time" Brian Fantana on Sex Panther

"cynical, sarcastic, black as fuck" firewalkwithme on himself, MF 2007

Patrick Süskind ~ das parfum / perfume

tiene la melancholia en la cara ..

Belgariad The Sorcerer by David Eddings .......i never knew that i could by so effected by a fantasy book

blarg!

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

People in Quandaries -Wendell Johnson

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others" ~ Groucho Marx

Some might dislike this answer but "Oh Well", The Bible pretty much does it for me, yes I read other books and I enjoy reading, If you knew me 10 years ago compared to how I am now, you might form a different opinion. Truly for me the bible provides guidelines for me, if I have a problem, if I am in a particular situation, this book covers everything. To ask for wisdom is to gain knowledge/to ask for knowledge is to gain wisdom.

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE WITHOUT PRAYER IS LIKE COMPUTER HARDWARE WITHOUT THE SOFTWARE!!!!!

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea'