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On the topic of "Get me!!!" and being assaulted by books, my gf and I are now discussing the difference between identifying powerfully with a work of literature or having that work actually influence your life.

I could fill a library with the former. I can't think of a single one that would fall into the latter category. She thinks that powerfully identifying is enough.

Maybe I don't understand the question.

Which doesn't bode well.

I read and enjoyed American Gods, but didn't find it life-altering, so I'm now very curious as to the experience you had with it. (This is, of course, very different from saying that I don't think it could be a life-altering read. After all, the only book that leaps to mind as being really personally profound to me is High Fidelity, and I'll be the first to admit that Proust, it ain't.)

I think I may enjoy books more after hearing how somebody else enjoyed it. It's like a guided tour through some aspects of the book that you might not have considered.

So tell tell tell!