I'm like this. I prefer to finish a book, but I can usually live with not finishing. Although mostly I buy the books I want, so I am sure I will finish them some time. Honest...

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I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

i haven been reading pretty much non-stop lately. off the top of my head:

leslie feinberg; stone butch blues.
brent hartinger; geography club, the order of the poison oak.
nancy garden; annie on my mind.
julie anne peters; luna, keeping you a secret.
stephen chbosky; the perks of being a wallflower.

i don't necessarily consider them "life changing", but they were all highly affecting. more often than not i was a blubbering mess through parts of each.

and yes there's a pattern. but i highly recommend all of them.

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It's the teen faglit you were talking of?

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

I know exactly what you mean. I think if it were shown more often to a younger crowd, it would appeal more to them because of the content; the fact they were not only constantely on drugs, but that they're ideas in themselves were basically a rebellion against society. Rebellion appeals to teenagers. You also have to realize that Kerouac was on speed while writing the entire book.

To even be further more honest, I started getting into alot of true political activist ideals and 60's culture when I was about 12.

"and i don't want to live this life" by deborah spungen - i read it for two days straight as soon as i got it, without knowing much about nancy spungen, & i found it incredibly moving.

i actually wanted to talk to the author, because she went through so much & i felt like i owed it to her to tell her she did her best with nancy

<3

Memoirs of a geisha

well not all of it. stone butch blues deals with a woman all the way through mid-adulthood.

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Well. There is a book that I have not picked up in 4 months, and I have about 200 more pages to go. But I will finish it. I will.

*subscribes*

memoirs of a geisha. really 'connected' with it due to stuff going on in my love life at the time. i was sitting on a plane reading it and crying my eyes out. fun.
the blind assassin by margaret atwood.
the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. It must be the book that's touched me the most, as I read it every year and never fail to cry throughout each time. As I've grown up (I first read it at 11), it's not lost any of its power over me.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, too, stays with me. I read the book several times before watching the film, which I agree has it's own charms, but I find it more powerful.

and I know the characters in his books are so well-written that you feel as if you've known them forever, but Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland gave me the warmest fuzzy I've had since I was reading picture books about ducklings (mind you, that was last week).