Posts
Challenges
Portals
Authors
Books
beta
Sign Up
Challenge
Tell us about THE book, story, or poem that changed your life. The one that brought you to love words.
The love of reading, or the love of words is something writers share. Tell us about THE book, story, or poem that changed your life. Give us a synopsis of the piece, with the author and title. If you want to, tell us why we should read it if we already haven't. Only one rule: You can only pick ONE piece. Don't over think it -- pick the one piece that has stayed with you more than the others. We all have reads that we couldn't put down, and some we forged through even though it was painful. So tell us about the piece of literature that stays with you, that sparked your imagination, that made you want to put pen to paper and tell your stories, your words, your poetry. Fellow Prosers- Read through these posts as they (hopefully) come in. Is there a book you've read? Let us know in the comments. One you need to read? Let us know that, too. Let's interact and get a feel for what inspires us to give our words to the world.

The Phantom Tollbooth

I was 12, I know this because it says so inside the cover, and I must have read it a million times, I know this because I can still remember the names of the places Milo visits.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Finally, despite his protestations, I am now reading it to my 10 year old. I am beside myself. The 10 year old isn't beside himself, he's putting up with me because he's kind enough to let me get it out of my system. Every few months I dust it off and waft it about in his general direction, he's done fighting it now, this is something he needs to just push on through.

The best bit so far, for my son, is working out that I first read this book 36 years ago. How freaking hilarious is that? Very, when you're 10. Not at all, when you're 46.

3
1
0