Basically what the title says: Is there any fiction book you’ve ever read that has emotionally or intellectually connected with you so much it changed the way you viewed the world, changed the way you viewed yourself or changed the way you viewed life (your own or in general)?
If so…
- What book was it?
- Why did it connect so well with you?
- How did it make you feel?
- And how did it change you?
Just to emphasize, I’m solely asking about works of fiction here. So nothing like reading just an academic book on philosophy or a self-help book or something.
Catch-22. Read it for the first time when I was about 10. Didn’t understand it all, of course, but found it very funny. Yossarrian reminded me of Bugs Bunny. Read it every year for the next decade or so and it became less funny each time.
Yossarrian lives in a world which doesn’t make sense, but people in authority want him to believe it does. They don’t know how to handle his refusal/inability to not point out the irrationality of everything. He reacts to the world that is, the satone other people know exists but want him to pretend doesn’t. This is exactly what Bugs Bunny does.