Books/Films that have stayed with you

[Bodshi]

Do any of you have a book/film/tv program etc that made a big impact on you? Maybe it wasn't the best book/film you'd ever read/seen but something about it made you think/terrified you/changed the way you did things etc? Something that really gets inside your head and puts a different perspective on things?

Chosen by a Horse is one book that I think about a lot, so is Room by Emma Donaghue (both recommended to me by people on here, thank you!)

 

[Pigletsmum]

Veronika decides to die by Paulo Coelho is a book I really loved when I read it. I can't think of any films :frown: havnt watched any for ages.

 

[popularfurball]

Who do you see nurse ( the version by Amanda someone!) - I found it upsetting but it has made me much more patient with my nan who is ever increasingly dependant on others despite her Fierce independence

Mark rashid books horsey wise

 

[Jane&Ziggy]

Cormac McCarthy's The Road, unfortunately. I wish I had never read it. It is probably a brilliant book, but it is so unsparingly hideous I can't imagine why anyone would want to write it.

Every time now I go for a walk in the pine woods in winter my mind fills up with images from the book. I don't want it to, it just does.

 

[LBrider]

Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks made me weep, a stunning book. But I've read masses of novels so there are plenty of other that have affected me.

Film wise, 'Don't Look Now' with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie was a bit special, the visual motifs used in it were well thought out.

The film that made me cry the most was Cyrano de Bergerac - even though this was French with subtitles I sobbed my heart out. I don't usually get into foreign language films but Gerard Depardu's acting was obviously so good it didn't matter.

 

[Trewsers]

Ooh great thread!

Book wise - Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series - I know it is a teenagers book but I loved it and found the trilogy most thought provoking.
From The Corner Of His Eye - Dean Koontz takes some beating, funny, sad and thrilling plus it opens up another perspective on different worlds and time travel.

Film wise (not strictly a film) LIFE ON MARS. Well, what is not to love / make you think about?!! It changed the way I felt about a LOT of things and the follow on ASHES TO ASHES - what can I say?! Made me think long and hard about life after death and the in-between worlds.

Many of Dean Koontz's novels have had an effect on the way I think - he has so many tales to tell and so many characters to study.

 

[candyflosspot]

the lovely bones book..i have read it on several occasions and i still shed a tear whenever i read it. Heartbreakingly sad

 

[candyflosspot]

Cormac McCarthy's The Road, unfortunately. I wish I had never read it. It is probably a brilliant book, but it is so unsparingly hideous I can't imagine why anyone would want to write it.

I bought this amd read a chapter or so. It was so utterly dull i had to stop reading it. I then watched the film which was undoubtedly the gloomiest most despairing film i have ever seen. When i think of it now it makes me feel dead inside.

 

[Trewsers]

I bought this amd read a chapter or so. It was so utterly dull i had to stop reading it. I then watched the film which was undoubtedly the gloomiest most despairing film i have ever seen. When i think of it now it makes me feel dead inside.

Not jolly viewing then?! Think I will pass on that one...