ITT: Books that had a profound effect at the age you read them

>>9687375
How did this book profoundly effect you. Did you become a serial killer or Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions?

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>I was 11-12 years old

>>9687387
It was the first book I read with a real clever and effective use of an unreliable narrator.

>>9687375
It was a hot book during high school, people who read it back then were metalesque girls/guys who are now pretty normal people.

I still blame Bukowski for making me think being a loser was a cool thing to do.

Read The stranger in a strange land as a teen. Accidentally reviewed one of it's chapters on sparknotes. Realised how deep it was and kept thinking about it.

my...

Probably Dune. Made drugs, politics, and environmentalism seem cool.

Demian
got me out of my 'if I'm going to be a poet I have to be a drunken doped up degenerate like Rimbaud' phase.

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>T H White - The Once And Future King - 11 years old
Not only the best introduction to Le Mort d'Arthur and Malory, but it was my first introduction to philosophy and ethics.

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these 2, especially end of the road though, related to the protagonist and the discursiveness I think, read it 3 or 4 times in a row back in high school. Was also like I was getting to know my dad because he was the one who told me to read them. Good times in retrospect.

I read The Callahan Chronicles when I was too young to even understand lots of it, but it really took me