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I always enjoyed reading, but I was more into nonfiction science-type books. I did enjoy reading fiction and literature but I wasn't exactly crazy about it. I would read the occassional Stephen King book and the ones that were required of us in school, but I couldn't find a place for fiction that mattered.
Then, in my Junior year in high school, our literature teacher had us read Albert Camus' The Stranger. There was something about his style and what he had to say that spoke to me in ways I could not describe. I was a teenager with loads of issues (as if I were the only one), and this book spoke to many of the things I was feeling - apathy brought on by a lack of direction and inability to find meaning in anything. I read it in one evening and promptly read it again the next day. I have made it a habit to read one of his works at least once a year. There isn't much and I've re-read many of his books many times and each time I do, I am renewed again.
I credit that book for opening me up to all the literature I've read since then.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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