What are...

[NotReady]

1. Bible
2. All of C.S. Lewis - not even close after the Bible.
3. Tolkien

[mackthefork]

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1. Bible
2. All of C.S. Lewis - not even close after the Bible.
3. Tolkien

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CS Lewis is fantastic, I guess he brings bible stories to the masses via furry talking animals, but no complaints here about that.

Mack

[VoraciousReader]

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CS Lewis is fantastic, I guess he brings bible stories to the masses via furry talking animals, but no complaints here about that.


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Darn it all, two of my three are taken.

Grapes of Wrath...Steinbeck: First book that genuinely took me out of my upper-middle class suburban upbringing.

Voyage of the Dawn Treader...C.S.Lewis: I read and loved and was influenced by all of the Chronicles, but that one especially spoke to me, with Reepicheep's pure faith and vision, Eustace's (correct name?) redemption and Aslan telling Lucy "No one is ever given to know what 'would have happened'". I'm probably butchering the quote.

The Crucible...Arthur Miller: Along with other events and history, instilled in me a mistrust of the hysteria of the masses, a concern for the rights of the accused, and a vigilance in monitoring those in power.

Edit: Honorable Mention: The Bible, Siddhartha, One (Richard Bach), A Course in Miracles, Aesop's Fables. These are in a slightly separate but relevant category.

[imported_CaseClosed326]

I am only a teenager so there is not much.
In no order:

Shawshank Redemption - "Get busy living or get busy dying"

1984 - Changed my outlook on government and the way things are.

Everclear - Father of mine - I can relate to that song alot and listened to it constantly when I was younger. Helped me out a great deal.

[RJT]

I think Bob Dylan said this first:

In his song“It’s Alright Ma, (I’m Only Bleeding)” Bob Dylan writes, “he not busy being born is busy dying.”

Which leads to another great work of art: the movie "Easy Rider" (the song is used in it).

p.s To another poster, it is hard to leave off Huck Finn, true.

[Georgia Avenue]

To the OP:
You asked about literature, not philosophy so:

1)Paradise Lost--Milton
2)Birds--Aristophanes
3)Changing Light at Sandover--James Merrill

And many more. The Bible and the Dialogues of Plato lie somewhere in between genres but it seems more like your question was: "Name some great novels you like," so here is an alternative answer...

Book of the New Sun--Gene Wolfe
Hard Times--Dickens
Light in August--Faulkner