r/books • u/xrobotx • Dec 07 '14

What is the book that changed your life ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '14

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

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u/porn_free_account Dec 08 '14

This caused me to order the book. Seriously ordered the book then wrote this comment. Edit: letters

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u/rsjd Dec 08 '14

I mean wow. That's a great quote. Writing it down now.

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u/porn_free_account Dec 08 '14

To settle forth and not read on, is the opposite of evolving, continue, expand, grow.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '14

I loved Of Mice and Men, maybe I will, too.

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u/thereelsuperman Dec 08 '14

It's Steinbeck's magnum opus.

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u/PreSchoolGGW Dec 08 '14

Enjoy. It is a mammoth read, and it is worth every second of time spent reading. Grapes Of Wrath might get all the attention, but East Of Eden is far superior.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '14

I just read the book in a day, I wouldn't call it a mammoth.

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u/Nap4 Dec 08 '14

And now that you have bought the book, you can comment

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '14

That comment makes me want to read it. I already got it on my Kindle though!

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u/BadSoles Dec 30 '14

Your comment about east of Eden convinced me to add it to my reading list, was it worth it?

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u/porn_free_account Dec 30 '14

Hasn't arrived yet. I'm in a real small town so everything takes for ever in the mail.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '14

It sucked. Nothing happens.

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u/kkool1827 Dec 07 '14

This would make a nice senior quote