I don't really have an 'influential book.'
For a series, the Animorph series would probably be what got me into reading. I was off and on with books until the 6th grade when I started reading Animorphs and I read practically all of them and couldn't stop.
From that, probably another influential book for me was Great Expectations. It wasn't really anything philosophical that influenced me, just that it was the first realy fucking hard book I had to read.
I guess mentally and emotionally influential - The Great Gatsby. I've got my Daisy. The last paragraph of that book makes it without doubt my favorite book of all time.
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
Emo Philips
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