tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5916640680794365241.post7020924337924020863..comments2023-09-10T19:29:28.614+10:00Comments on Bait For Bookworms: The Books That Made Me (...and a Driving Lesson)The Bookwormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09438661852327001822noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5916640680794365241.post-69587379252662249302010-09-14T21:18:31.678+10:002010-09-14T21:18:31.678+10:00This is a very interesting read; I love hearing ab...This is a very interesting read; I love hearing about what books influenced people. Now I can't stop myself in my delusion of grandeur and must spontaneously type up my top ..uh...4:<br /><br />1. Stephen King - Carrie; not so much for its content but because this was the first "real" book I read (at 10 or 11 years old) after all those damn Enid Blyton books about them twins. It's what got me hooked on horror studies in the first place, and is pretty much to be blamed for many a thing I did later on, like my doctoral dissertation (but not the drunken destruction of a street lamp)<br />2. The Lord of the Flies, William Golding. I dunno, its just me and my fascination for abberrant behavior and crowd psychology. Wrote a paper on it in high school too.<br />3. In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka. Read it during my last year of high school, marvelled at it, and later used it for my master's thesis. Am still convinced the movie Cube is an indirect remake.<br />4. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, because it's just a beautiful novel.<br /><br />But.. this is all coming from the girl who put down "Infinite Jest" after 110 pages saying, "Bah, I don't get it."Janahttp://facebook.com/jana.toppenoreply@blogger.com