I hate the book that changed my life. Because it changed my life.Heh, heh. Not to sound melodramatic. It got me out of a comfortable sphere of familiar existance and in short, turned my life upside down. . It was the fountainhead, by Ayn Rand. I do NOT recommend it to aybody who wants to live a normal life. It's too full of what Oscar Wilde would call, "strange, poisonous ideas".