Reading a book that sounds like reading your own life...!

hi didi. honestly i cant cry and nothing can force me for tears. i dont know when i cried for last time. anyway once i read a novel in my language. the english term of that novel would be THE COUNTRY OF ANURADHA. anuradha is the name of a girl. i found some similarities there with my life and it influenced me to write my second novel of life. TOUCH OF LOVE...... the story of that novel was about love and sacrifice and i borrowed this motto for my love and i established the same theme in my novel with a separate story. thanks.

yes, there are several bookes strike a strong chord with me. As I don't have many experience, actually there are more books treasured by me, which lead me to a completely different life, but the feeling is so true that I felt ever experienced. The first book lead me to that feeling is "Gone with the Wind", secondly "the Thorn Bird". Probably, I will never have the chance to experience their life in the books, but I do have the chance to be in need of the guts, the passion, the attitude to face my life. yes, I believe, "Reading good books can elevate the mind". Unfortunately, I have spent few time on reading in recent years. Thanks Jaiho2009, your topic kind of wakes me up!

The only book I can remember now is "Autobiography of a Yogi". When I read that book, I could so well connect with the life of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda. Every word he spoke, every philosophy and every mystical experience, I felt as if it was happening with me. When I read through it, I felt I was reading my story, and the very nature of the mystic is none but me. But on the other side, there have been many books which I can't remember now certainly, which have been close to events of my life and I have been disturbed emotionally by it. Many sudden experiences through reading make me realize, "Oh my God, I had the same experience. So that's what it meant." After reading, I get a lot of answers to experiences which I haven't know why they occurred.

frankly no, i still haven`t come across any book that even faintly resembles my own life. The books that i read nowadays are mainly of a spiritual nature and which are uplifting for the soul. I have stopped reading novels, bestsellers etc since over 30 years ago and when i was reading that stuff it was mostly comics,cowboy Westerns and other books of different varieties.Now i have totally stopped reading such stuff.

That sounds like the plot of the movie The Number 23. The main character played by Jim Carey reads a book which he finds sounds eerily like his own life. the characters become obessed with the signifigance of the number 23 throughout both their lives.

i have this feeling that like reading my own life,sometimes i can be excited by actor's experience,especially when he met most difficluties in the life and could not deal with it and adhere to live in bad situation,this often excited me.sometimes it sounds reading my own life and see real myself like mirror.

Yes, I am a total bookworm, and I've read a couple books that really related to me. I think everyone can relate to literary characters in one way or another, because we're all human. w