A book that changed your life - everyone wins SBI and 10 STEEM to the 1st!
Hello, dear Bananafish wanderers!
We keep growing at a fast pace through the selfless delegations from our members!
Nonetheless, the good news keeps flowing in the potassium rivers of the Realms. @bananafish now reached a considerable amount of 4.521 SP, being able to sustain every writer and poet till a max vote value of $ 0.13. From the point of view of what this amazing community can offer, let me announce briefly but joyously that starting April @calluna will move her renowned "Tell a Story to Me" contest within the Bananafish family!
Let's cut to the chase. I will probably write another post with all the amazing novelties that the core members are plotting with me, @f3nix, like a bunch of drunk Guy Fawkes! The reason for this post is a little literary survey. Here's the question for you all:
Tell us about a book that changed or influenced your life.
Prizes!
I'm so eager to learn about your favorite books. I hope that everyone will find inspiration and good reading ideas.
Also, for those of you that still didn't enter in the Bananafish Realms Discord Community, here's a special key to open the interdimensional portal! See you all there and enjoy this little bonus contest!
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Gulliver’s Travels.
It was in high school and I was writing for the newspaper and short plays; What I was writing got me trouble and sent to the principles office a few times as I was critiquing the teachers and local government. So after a few times my brother, who’s a teacher now but wasn’t then, bought me Gullivers Travels and explained that the writer Johnathon Swift wrote it at a time when pointing out royalty and government were stupid would get him arrested. So he wrote Gullivers Travels as a satire... a way to make fun of the government without them knowing. Turned into a best seller.
I view that now as a way to write because I still point out folly in what I write.
Thank you for your contribution! Indeed a fine allegory that of Jonathan Swift. I wish politics and society, in general, could still enjoy such irony and criticism. I see that you're a screenwriter! Here's a flash Finish the Story factoid: we had a screenwriter in the contest, Rich Wilkes. By the way, we would love to see you in our little community of writers. Cheers!
Gulliver's Travels is awesome! I also loved this book. Even more when I learned what it was about and why he wrote it.
I appreciate good satire. To me it takes talent and intelligence to pull off well. Never stop doing it!
P.S. Your stuff looks interesting. Will take a closer look at it when I get a chance.
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
I read this book in a college class. It was odd and stood out cause the class was on science fiction books. That was my normal go to for a book. This book really brought me into the world of fantasy books. That lead to me reading the LOTR, Wheel of Time, GOT, and a few other series. All these books have driven a large part of my leisure time and are a reason I thought it might be fun to start to write. A lot of these writers are pretty normal guys who just had a story to tell.
Damn @stever82 - I always knew Tales From Earthsea was inspired by books, and the author hadn't felt well represented in the film, as beautiful as it was, a great pick! Very much need to get myself a copy of this. @f3nix was right, this is just going to leave us with a reading list we can't wait to rip through!
Thank you for signaling this book, Steven! Did you also read the saga of Shannara by Terry Brooks? My experience is similar to yours. Having a good story to tell is definitely something to not be underestimated.
Oh I have not and I could use a new one I will look into it.
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Yes. The first trilogy of the shannara series is great. I got bored with the later ones, but still good.
Sometimes they were really dead in some storylines. I remember that I used to jump the chapters to follow the plot I liked the most.
If I had to pick, I'd say it was Tales of Known Space by Larry Niven. I actually forget which of his books I read first, but that one introduced me to the idea of writing a UNIVERSE, not just a story. I mean I knew about the star wars and star trek universes but they didn't seem as rich and varied as his did.
That was the beginning of my desire to not create a world, but a universe where many worlds live. That's still the heart of my desire but now I want to make it a universe where other people want to go too.
Stay tuned. 😁
A universe that attracts the reader like a black hole, a portal to another dimension. Fascinating concept, @ntowl, which resounds with my imaginary. Thanks for your contribution/Bananafish Paladin!
I love that ambition: a universe where other people want to go...
I have to say that I didn't expect it!
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Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
I read this novel during my adolescence, immediately I identified with Raskolnikov, an intelligent boy with a lot of potential that is not exploited, and ends up becoming a lazy man who will commit a stupid crime that will torment him until the end of the book.
At that time I was a rather misguided boy, I did not get into college and leisure consumed me, crime and punishment warned me that everything could end badly on the road I took and I began to get ahead by other means, leave behind my friends, I found a job and then things would take a different course little by little until today.
This is not my favorite book, but one that made me see things from another perspective at the right time.
Thank you for this witnessing. I believe that you perfectly interpretated the spirit of this contest initiative.
This is proving to be quite hard. There are so many titles, and different times and situations, to choose from.
So I will cheat a little, as I sometimes do, and nominate Test of the Twins, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. For the happy few who don't know, this is a Dragonlance book. This is the book that infected me with chuunibyou, like, several years before the term was first coined.
I'm sure you understand. As a young boy I was young, and also, a boy, and therefore somewhat impressionable. I had never heard of the term 'mary-sue' nor had any idea of the dangers I was exposing myself to.
For an indeterminate amount of time, I malfunctioned. I inhaled all YA fantasy series I could lay my hands on, I roleplayed silent-yet-charismatic magical gentlemen bastards, I scribbled hourglass eyes on the margins of my textbooks, and most importantly I tried to awaken the dark powers of raging destruction that so obviously lay dormant in my ancient soul (they'll start working any time now).
Social ruination had come, and come to stay!
It didn't though. Other and better reads pulled me out of that particular abyss, but that's a story for another occasion.
And this, my friends, is how you steal a SBI share. 😎
Bwahaha what a legendary ending! SBI stealing granted!
However, master Gwil, you're not and you weren't a chūnibyō. We all are aware of the hidden powers dormant within your cursed soul! (Ale giochi a lol con me? Ci vediamo a Modena?)
I always lose bad in PVP games, and I never tried league of legends. Should I start training? 😵 I'm guessing you're talking about Play, those will be three hectic days but of course we should find time for a meeting!
I don't know if you should for that bit of mental health that remains in you. I've to say that's fun and more fun would be to play in a team with a bananafishious friend!
Yes I meant the Play. Let's meet and eat together some tigelle! 😋
Here you go my potassium friends. :)
https://steemit.com/bananafish/@svemirac/a-book-that-changed-your-life-bananafish-contest-entry
A wild Svem in the house, yeah! Oh, what cool picks I see in that post 😍
Many books have shaped the way I live and think. Books on money, fantasy stories sci-fi, religion and many more. It all started with children's stories but I think The Book that made me read is: "THE BLACK ARROW BY Robert Louis Stevenson."
A medieval adventure which showed me how many of the days current writers of books and films had borrowed from this not so well known classic. The King- Richard Crookback, his cronies and well meaning supporters. Our hero - Dick Shelton - being drawn into the war for the throne of England. How he is made "alive" in the pages. Slowly we track his growth, rather feel his emotions and absorb his understanding. The heroin meets our Dick the first time riding in the guise of a man. The twists of this relationship and how they bond is another undercurrent to the story. The battle scenes are fantastic and I still read them when I need to create my own. Another item which RLS uses to a great effect is 'mystery' How Dick's father died? or Who is the Black Arrow? or Who is the spy?
For many this book may lack the 'seriousness' or 'philosophy' but what it did was introduce to me the joy of good writing- so there.
I don't care of pompousness in the contest's entries. Your choice is valid and interesting. I enjoyed seeing in your words genuine passion and that healthy attitude of someone being down on earth. Probably because you're a writer and you don't need haughty stuff for getting inspired.
Thanks for your support. Good to feel that I'm not the "odd one out"
Oh, you can imagine. The whole Bananafish is the odd one out and proud of being that 😉
That is one of my favorites as well.
Thanks for your support. Good to feel that I'm not the "odd one out"