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What is the most inspiring book you have read, and how did it impact your life?

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What is the most inspiring book you have read, and how did it impact your life?
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Box Car Children has always been my favorite, love the way these children found away of survival, and I think it has helped me with my survival through out life. Yes, it is a child's book, and it has always stood out in my mind through out all my growing up, and have encouraged my children to read it and to their children as well.
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one hundred years of solitude, author Gabriel garcia marques,
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A great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.. It is an awsome book. It inspired me to begin writing books of my own (well that and my lack of books at home... I read alot)
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One of the first books I ever read called "To Tame a Land" by Louis L'Amour. It was a western and the teacher showed a boy how to. shoot straight and fast and also told him to read. Plato 5 times. In the end he meets up with the. teacher in a shootout and wins because he says. I only read Plato 4 times.
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The best novel I have ever read is Middlemarch by George Eliot. It is absolutely amazing in every way.
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Check out this link. It is a survey of over 1500 people on which books inspired them the most.. . http://www.abacom.com/~topten/insp/index.shtml
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