What book has changed your life, and why?

Narcissus und Goldmund. By Hermann Hesse.

When I was 14. It showed me that I was gay. It´s printed deep in my heart the line when the priest Narcissus says to his pupil Goldmund:

- You walk in the sun, I walk by the light of the moon. You dream about girls and I dream about boys.

That´s it.

I know you maybe expecting a title of a book that can be referred to, but in my ‎case, what really did change my life was a dusty, thin and small pocket detective ‎story titled “The Lost Diamond”, one of a series of pocket publications by the ‎French detective story writer Maurice Lapland, the creator of the imaginary ‎character Arsine Lapin - an elegant thief whom you cannot but like - and I was 11 ‎years old. ‎

Ever since I read that small, simple and interesting book, I had developed a great ‎love for reading and became a book-worm. By the age of 20, I had read almost ‎every book I laid hand on, in all subjects, and, although I stopped reading ‎detective stories in a few years and developed interest in serious readings such as ‎philosophy and sciences as early as the age of 17, I can see by reflecting over the ‎track of my life why I became a man of literature by the age of 25: Reading that ‎book made a turn in my life - an early one that I was lucky to stick to.‎

Most recently: "The Stranger" by Albert Camus.

Also: "Candide" by Voltaire; "Heart of Darkness" by Conrad was boring, but pretty eye-opening when watched with the movie Apocalypse Now; Twain's "Letters from the Earth", um...there's a lot more.

And "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Twain was the book that made me love classics in the first place.

God`s own word the Bible. It is wonderful histroy and has never been proven wrong. Never! It is substanited by other written pieces of it`s time. Written by 40 different writers spread all over the world ,and they tell a consistant story. Yep, that`s the book for me.

The Bible... it's more or less a great big 'How To Run You Life' book... nothing could influence you more...

only girls can change your life......books can't.

"What 'they' don't want you to know" by Kevin Tredeau