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Related: About this forumWhat novel influenced your life the most?
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, which I read as a young teenager turned me into a beatnik for the rest of my life.
http://www.shmoop.com/on-the-road/
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What novel influenced your life the most? (Original Post)
zippythepinhead
Dec 2016
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hermetic
(8,308 posts)1. Tom Wolfe's
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test which turned me into a hippie for the rest of my life.
zippythepinhead
(374 posts)3. funny
made me laugh!
Leith
(7,809 posts)2. Michener's Hawaii
It's one of the books I need to reread every 5 years or so. I love not only the sweeping tale of how the islands came into being, but how people came, lived together, and added to the rich culture already there.
resistance2016
(86 posts)4. Atlas Shrugged
But while a lot of teenagers read it and become libertarians or worse, it had the exact opposite effect on me. I'd kill myself before I say anything positive about the writer of that book.