"This book, wow": 1984
Ironic that this is the QotD on the day that I start my literary journal.
Has there been a book that has changed your life? Maybe just a little bit?
I don't know, really; I'm way too indecisive for questions like this. It sounds like a college application essay question, man it.
But yeah. The first book that came to mind was 1984 by George Orwell. Read it this spring for AP Lang, and loved it, in that being - creeped - out - at - the - same - time sort of way. (I had to space it out so the text would align properly, haha.)
I was already a skeptic of the news (though not to the point of being a conspiracy theorist) and the book only opened my eyes wider to the reality of the media and the world. It's all about subliminal messaging in movie theatres.
Other than that, I'm sure there are books out there, maybe more influental than that, but I'm drawing a blank.
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I remember cringing through the entire ending of that book; the rats were just awful!
My favorite dystopian nove has got to be Fahrenheit 451, though. I've been on a real Bradbury kick lately; I'm trying to read everything I can get my hands on by him before I head out to a signing in late July.
I should get to picking up Fahrenheit another time; it was one of my summer reading books before freshman year, after which I promptly lost my copy. I've never read anything else by him--the signing sounds exciting, though! Never been to a book signing either.