Wednesday, May 1, 2013

My Three Most Influential Books

This are some of the books that I read as a teen and as a kid that I would say very influential:


First, would be the Harry Potter Series. I started reading this a kid because I was amazed by wizardry and by the mythical creatures inside the book. Harry Potter is a seven book series written by J. K. Rowling. Its about the adventures of a young wizard, Harry Potter with his friends inside the mysterious Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardy and how he will overcome the dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, who wants become an immortal and rule the wizard world. The theme would be death but there are also many other themes including, prejudice and corruption. It was one of the best selling book series in the history. I think Harry Potter set the standard for contemporary children's literature because it's very entertaining for a kid's mind how the wizard word was set in this book. And it's still popular until now. 


The next one would be Go Ask Alice. Written by Beatrice Sparks (1971). Its a book about a the life of a troubled teenage girl. It's written in the form of a diary of an anonymous girl who got addicted to drugs. This book was really entertaining for me. I read this inside the class and got really into it. This is a very controversial book because it shows different kinds of drugs and actions that a teenage girl in high school shouldnt do in a very young age.


And lastly, is the Lord Of The Flies. Its a novel by Nobel Prize winning English author William Golding. Its about a group of british boys stuck in an island after a plane crash who tried to govern themselves with disastrous results. This is a really nice book. It has a cool story line where every characters changes. I read this book inside the class too, and we even watched the movie about it and it gave me more pictures to put in my mind while reading the book. 

3 comments:

  1. Funny, I read Go Ask Alice when it was relatively new in the mid-1970s.

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    1. I really liked it because it opened my mind to those kind of stuffs.

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  2. I still remember walking into my neighborhood's Barnes & Noble to get "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". "Goblet of Fire" is my favorite!

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