<curious>

[Slarti]

if you could think of one book, movie, play, piece of literature (redundancy i know), radio show, interview, quote, reality grid, world model, musical piece, or whatever else you can think of that would change my (me=16 year old naive suburban white boy) view of the world in the most drastic way, what would you choose?

[Bella]

To Kill A Mockingbird  by Harper Lee.

[Slarti]

very interesting choice, i've already read it twice though. i really liked it, which is strange because i didn't think schools were allowed to assign good books as required reason. why'd you pick that?

[BADGE OF HONOR]

"The Preacher" comic books by...some dude.  Blood and theology and vampires?  Sweet.

[Bella]

very interesting choice, i've already read it twice though. i really liked it, which is strange because i didn't think schools were allowed to assign good books as required reason. why'd you pick that?

It changed my point of view when I was your age. And I still reread it every couple of years.

[Slarti]

i liked it because it gave a nice look at a child forced to grow up too fast, having to grow up where issues like racism and all that were being thrown at her all the time.

[Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.)]

Preacher - Garth Ennis. Awesome.

[Slarti]

heh amazon gives that an interesting review,maybe i'll check it out.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Schindler's list, the movie.

It shows the best and the worst humans can be to each other.

edit: The Color Purple, the book

for the same reason.

[A Nonny Mouse]

If you really want to change your life, go visit Jamaica, not the tourist trap but the parts where people actually live.

Now picture the overwhelming majority of the world like that.

[Anonymous]

If you really want to change your life, go visit Jamaica, not the tourist trap but the parts where people actually live.

Now picture the overwhelming majority of the world like that.

or much worse

edit

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Titus, directed by Julie Taymor.  Anthony Hopkins' best performance, ever.  It'll blow the top off your head.

[Donkeyotay]

listen to Frank Zappa

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

listen to Frank Zappa

<Eric Cartman>
This movie has warped my fragile little mind
</Eric Cartman>
and that's what Zappa will do, so be sure to read his autobiography as well

[the other anonymous]

The Right to Feel Bad, by Lesley Hazleton, The Dial Press, 1984 (ISBN: 0-385-27684-2)

It's a book about depression -- pro-depression -- and was written before all of the politicized crap of the recent era yet after all of the wild musings of yester-year. (The hey-day of the early-to-mid eighties where psychologists were starting to get their act together, before the Liberals screwed everything up.) I'd have to say it changed my life inasmuch as [nightcourtquote]I'm feeling much better now[/nightcourtquote].