What's your favourite story of all time?

Adamantium

Or the one that that felt like you left a little bit of your soul with it or felt a little changed after it/informed your personality/resonated with you?

The one that you consider as close to perfect or felt like it was made for you specifically.

Why made it very special in your eyes?

TV, books, movies, whatever!

Lost in Translation or Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) for me.

Uriel.

Lolita

wazky

Toy Story.

The Velveteen Rabbit.

'Love makes you real'

dark crystal

The Long Walk by Stephen King and The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.

brian67

the old man and the sea

Shakespeare's Sister

dark crystal wrote: »

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.

Was just about to post it. So beautiful - can't recommend it enough. People, please read it!

beano345

the running man by Stephen king I can identify with the main character a lot

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There was a Girl from Madrid
Who claimed she'd never been Rid
Along came an Italian
With Balls like a Stallion
And Rode her Like Billy The Kid !

HazDanz

Two girls, one cup. A modern day classic of love and friendship between two people who are struggling with the reality of the harsh world we live in.

everlast75

dark crystal wrote: »

The Long Walk by Stephen King and The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.

Quitters Inc. was class too

Alf. A. Male

Huckleberry Finn. There is so much in that story. It helped me grow up reading it and now it takes me back reading it again.

Alf. A. Male

HazDanz wrote: »

Two girls, one cup. A modern day classic of love and friendship between two people who are struggling with the reality of the harsh world we live in.

I love how for a while you don't know which way the story will go, but in the end they get their sh1t together.

Karl Stein

Escape into Darkness.

A true story about a young Jewish girl's incredible experiences evading the concentration camps in Nazi occupied Poland and Germany.

A vivid and gripping wartime saga from a real-life heroine who impersonated an Aryan Christian and fought the Nazis by smuggling weapons to the underground during World War II. From the smoldering streets to the blackened battlefields of several countries, Games lived a fugitive's life--often a whim away from instant death.

http://books.google.ie/books/about/Escape_Into_Darkness.html?id=9Ya0sOSpbjoC&redir_esc=y

What a survivor.

Zed Bank

Paradise lost.

beks101

To Kill a Mockingbird. First read it when I was twelve and it opened up the world for me a little.

The Backwards Man

beks101 wrote: »

To Kill a Mockingbird. First read it when I was twelve and it opened up the world for me a little.

I had an English teacher insisted on pronouncing 'Boo' as 'Beau'.:mad: Ruined it for me for many years.

Greyfox

Game of thrones is having a very strong effect on me at the moment, HP and the Goblet of fire, the first half of the Stand and the first book I read the Elfstones of shannara had an effect on me

With films Braveheart, Terminator 2 and Shawshank have had a lasting effect on me

My favourite story ever belongs to a game called Final Fantasy 7, the main bad guy Sephiroth is built up to be the greatest soldier who ever lived, your character travels the whole world and everywhere you go its "Sephiroth done this", "a man with a dark clock was here" etc making you dying to finally catch up with this guy that you've idolised for so long...and then theirs the amazing love story that the game is deservedly famous for...

Banjo String

40 shades of grey.


The wife was on heeeat.

Smidge

Banjo String wrote: »

40 shades of grey.


The wife was on heeeat.

She must have been!!
What did she do with the other 10?? :eek:

Adamantium

Greyfox wrote: »

My favourite story ever belongs to a game called Final Fantasy 7, the main bad guy Sephiroth is built up to be the greatest soldier who ever lived, your character travels the whole world and everywhere you go its "Sephiroth done this", "a man with a dark clock was here" etc making you dying to finally catch up with this guy that you've idolised for so long...and then theirs the amazing love story that the game is deservedly famous for...

You'll like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_PGUa69aE

Gunslinger99

dark crystal wrote: »

The Long Walk by Stephen King and The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.

The Long Walk is fantastic and such a compelling read if anybody i know slates King i challenge them to read this and then tell me he isnt a genius

Aidric

'American Beauty' was the first film that left me speechless after leaving the cinema.

'Kafka on the Shore' by Murakami had a similar effect on me on first reading.

macplato

“A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.

All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.

Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.
The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked.

“That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbor. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth—we’re chickens.” So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.”

Anthony De Mello "Song of the Bird"

Supergurrier

Wheel of time

yes there

Greyfox wrote: »

Game of thrones is having a very strong effect on me at the moment, HP and the Goblet of fire, the first half of the Stand and the first book I read the Elfstones of shannara had an effect on me

With films Braveheart, Terminator 2 and Shawshank have had a lasting effect on me

My favourite story ever belongs to a game called Final Fantasy 7, the main bad guy Sephiroth is built up to be the greatest soldier who ever lived, your character travels the whole world and everywhere you go its "Sephiroth done this", "a man with a dark clock was here" etc making you dying to finally catch up with this guy that you've idolised for so long...and then theirs the amazing love story that the game is deservedly
famous for...

Loved the storyline in that game, I never finished it but years later I checked it up online what happened. The game itself was not that impressive. Zoff was a idiot and squall was the hero.

Reiketsu

'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck.

Links234

I'll go with final fantasy 7 also, it left an incredible impression

wp_rathead

Love the old Fables growing up

Ye prob know The Dog and Its Reflection, The Fox and The Crow etc.

My Fav is The Scorpion and the Frog

A scorpion asks a frog to carry him over a river. The frog is afraid of being stung during the trip, but the scorpion argues that if it stung the frog, the frog would sink and the scorpion would drown. The frog agrees and begins carrying the scorpion, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When asked why, the scorpion points out that this is its nature.

Basically its moral is "some people are just DICKS"

Pawn

Neverending story.

Rory Gallagher

Ulysses.

LizzieJones

The Giving Tree. It made an impression on me as a young child.