ITT: Books that had a profound effect at the age you read them

[Anonymous No.9687375]

[Anonymous No.9687387]

>>9687375
How did this book profoundly effect you. Did you become a serial killer or Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions?

[Anonymous No.9687388]

>I was 11-12 years old

[Anonymous No.9687404]

>>9687387
It was the first book I read with a real clever and effective use of an unreliable narrator.

[Anonymous No.9687484]

>>9687375
It was a hot book during high school, people who read it back then were metalesque girls/guys who are now pretty normal people.

I still blame Bukowski for making me think being a loser was a cool thing to do.

[Anonymous No.9688728]

Read The stranger in a strange land as a teen. Accidentally reviewed one of it's chapters on sparknotes. Realised how deep it was and kept thinking about it.

[Anonymous No.9688734]

my...

[Anonymous No.9688742]

Probably Dune. Made drugs, politics, and environmentalism seem cool.

[Anonymous No.9688923]

Demian
got me out of my 'if I'm going to be a poet I have to be a drunken doped up degenerate like Rimbaud' phase.

[Anonymous No.9689005]

>T H White - The Once And Future King - 11 years old
Not only the best introduction to Le Mort d'Arthur and Malory, but it was my first introduction to philosophy and ethics.

[Anonymous No.9689184]

these 2, especially end of the road though, related to the protagonist and the discursiveness I think, read it 3 or 4 times in a row back in high school. Was also like I was getting to know my dad because he was the one who told me to read them. Good times in retrospect.

[Anonymous No.9689190]

I read The Callahan Chronicles when I was too young to even understand lots of it, but it really took me