Name a book which you have never lent to anybody because the impact is so overwhelming?

Question

- that you wanted to be the only person , you know to have read it

Answer 1

The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway. My best friend has been dying to read it since he finished college, but I won't lend him mine. And it could be that I don't want to give up my copy, but it would be a great book for him to read. He just has to get his own!

Answer 2

Mists of Avalon because that is the book where my now husband wrote in it that he loved me.

Answer 3

"2666" by Roberto Bolano. Not only because it's too overwhelming, but also because it hasn't been released yet, lol.

Galley proofs are awesome.

Answer 4

Before I got some common sense, it was Twilight. Yes, I used to be a Twi-Freak. Guilty.

Now, it's got to be Emma by Jane Austen, which is pointless because none of my friends read Jane Austen... besides that, it's got to be White Oleander by Janet Fitch.

Answer 5

a child called it. it was wonderful. and also twilight. im a twihard.

Answer 6

A Man Could Get Killed That Way by Weldon Hill.  

Partially because it took me so long to find a copy of a book I read long ago that's been out of print for many years, and somewhat because I wouldn't want to risk losing it, but as you say, it became MY inspirational story, and I want to protect that feeling.