Ten Books that Affected You

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Originally Posted by docicu3

Do you think kids read less or more these days because of the development of the internet Del? I'm voting for less because nothing is read cover to cover...

Books That Changed My Life....

1) Tale of Two Cities
2) World According to Garp...
3) Cats Cradle and all the KV similar works
4) Cried The Beloved Country
5) Animal Farm
6) Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas
7) Les Miserables
8) Even Cowgirls Get The Blues......Thumbs Up!!
9) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
10) Deadzone

First of all, I love The Dead Zone. First Stephen King I read that made me cry.

Second, I think kids are reading today, just we're more out of the loop on what they read. Unless it's a big thing, like the Harry Potter novels were. My nieces are voracious readers; they spend holiday visits with the family curled up with their Nooks. I just don't know what they're reading, although their mom keeps a pretty close eye on them, so I suspect it's parent-approved material. As opposed to when I grew up, and my grandparents' attic contained every pulp bestseller from about 1935 to 1975, or so it seemed, and the less the grownups saw us, the happier they were. I think I got most of my sex education from Jacqueline Susann.