I read alot of different genres of books and most don't really have much of an impact on me, honestly. There's really only a handful that I can truly say changed me. But one that stuck with me for as long as I can remember is The Missing Piece meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein. I fell in love with it as a kid. It's probably the best book out there & I think everyone should at least take a peek at it, once in awhile. Shel Silverstein always had this way of taking life's most distressing and heartbreaking situations and making it into a form that (almost) everyone, even small children, can relate to. For example, when you're reading this, you think it's just a silly little story about a wedge trying to fit in somewhere, but then you get deeper into it, and all of a sudden, a light switches on in your head and your going "Oh! Wow! I get it now. This sounds so familiar..." and you realize this silly little story isn't just a story you can throw away after your done. It's practically a carbon copy of reality. And in the end, you can't help but feel just a little bit better knowing that somebody out there understood how you felt. :)
I love Shel Silverstein. My parents used to read my siblings and me the poems in "The Sidewalk's End." I think I still have some of them memorized: "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out..."
ReplyDeleteGreat poet. Try comparing him to William Carlos Williams.