What soundtrack/book/movie had the greatest impact on your life?

[catabryna]

For me it was Charlotte's Web. My formative years.

[taterguy]

1. Risky Business

[catabryna]

2. Great movie...

My favorite Tom Cruise movie is Far and Away. But, Risky Business is a great movie, as well.

[lunatica]

3. Stuart Little and later Charlotte's Web

Both were also in my formative years. Later the book that made the deepest impression was Jack London's White Fang. To this day it remains one of my favorite books. I made sure to read it to my son long after he could read himself. He loved it too. It's one of those books that has to be read at an appropriate age because of the beginning where the wolves are stalking the hunters and eventually kill them. It also had a great deal of cruelty towards dogs in it. One of the strengths of that book is that it's told entirely from the point of view of White Fang.

[catabryna]

4. Too cool...

My favorite Jack London book is White Fang.

Imagine that my former employer was named "Jack London".

He is a great lawyer, but a struggling author.

:)

[7wo7rees]

5. "How To Win Friends" by Dale Carnegie

No joke.
I learned to smile more, listen more, learn more from elders.
I learned that it is not important who came up with the best plan, only that the best plan was adopted.
It has shaped me more than any other book.

[catabryna]

7. I'm going to bookmark this thread...

I've never read this book. Thanks. :)

[emilyg]

12. I certainly learned to

listen more. Re-read it every so often.

[lunatica]

6. Have Space Suit Will Travel by Robert Heinlein

was my first science fiction book when I was a teenager. It made me a scifi fan for life. It's about a teenager who gets a used space suit and he cleans it up and makes it usable. He gets kidnapped by bad guy aliens he calls 'worm face' because they have wiggly worm like things around their mouths, and he ends up saving an alien he calls 'mother thing' on Pluto and carries her inside his space suit when he's walking on the surface of the Moon to get her to safety and save her life which nearly kills both of them. In the end he's put on trial in lieu of all of humanity by the Galactic Federation because Man is such a dick and a potential danger to the universe. But because he's fought the bad guys and saved the good guys and sacrificed himself to do so they decide not to convict or execute him and they decide to give humanity another chance. When he returns to the earth he can't tell anyone about it though.

It was also age perfect. I didn't read it to my son, but I gave it to him and he loved it too. He too is a scifi fan to this day.

[hobbit709]

8. Long time Heinlein fan here.

I discovered his books when I was about 10.

[handmade34]

15. Stranger In A Strange Land

my favorite

[catabryna]

9. Second chances...

we all deserve them. :hippie:

[Bennyboy]

10. The Electric Kool Aid AcidTtest...

Read it in jail after stealing 57 cents worth of bologna and sentenced to 10 days in the Tahoe jail.

Love it and I must have read it at least 50 times since.

[catabryna]

11. I'm not sure I could relate...

but, ya never know. :evilgrin:

[Initech]

13. Frank Zappa's music

[catabryna]

14. Mother of Invention?

Or something else?

[Broken_Hero]

16. .....

Soundtrack-none really, although my favorite soundtrack is Last of the Mohicans.

Book-Memnoch the Devil

Movie-Superman The Movie

[AllenVanAllen]

17. Frankenstein 1931

I saw it the first time when I was 5, and was never the same again.

[CBGLuthier]

18. Phobos And Deimos Go To Mars - Synergy

Sidetracked me into the universe of electronic music where I mostly remain to this day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnwfKSFCcyE

[BrendaBrick]

19. Soundtrack = George Benson's "Breezin"

From high school. Especially the track: This Masquerade.

Book: Aesop's Fables in elementary school. In fact, I (naively) walked up to the librarian and said with eyes as big as saucers and pointing to it and proclaiming.....THIS is a REALLY GOOD BOOK!!!! (She just smiled.) In fact, I contend that I would just love to replace all the bibles in hotel rooms with a copy of Aesop's Fables instead...I mean...who can argue with the antics and lessons of fictitious animals?

Movie: Hands down: Shawshank Redemption if nothing more than for that incredible scene of the Tim Robbins character muddling (and gagging) his way through the sewer pipes in order to escape and finally come out the end and rip off his shirt and let the fresh rain cleanse him!