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Everyone knows when they find a book that seems to understand you, that seems to be like your life story. For me these books were Eleanor & Park and Looking for Alaska. What are yours? Come on guys, bookworms know exactly what I mean. 

Ah, yet another warrior cats fan.......*tsk tsk*

Just kidding! (Even though you are -_-)

Hmm. Probably... The Bully, Freak The Mighty or Eragon.

What about Eragon spoke to you, Zag?

Ugh, I hated that book - couldn't read beyond the first chapter.

The audio book has the intensely questionable decision of having the male reader trying to do a gravelly female voice for Saphira. 

That sounds cringe worthy. The writing just annoyed the heck out of me - too loose and sloppy with excessive adjectives and adverbs.

To be honest I couldn't get through the first chapter either. Probably cause I'm lazy.

I think most ppl who like Eragon are comparatively new to fantasy literature.

There's a lot of books like that- if it's the first one of its kind you read, the genre cliches seem new and and exciting (there's a reason things become cliche, after all.) 

Reading the entire series when I was younger, I absolutely loved the series. It's definitely appealing to the younger audience, and I was a huge fan at one point. Looking back on it now, my love for it has waned somewhat, but I'll always remember Eragon as my first real "favorite" series.

I like how he was determined to help out his people.

Aren't most protagnoists?

Hm. I guess so. But I probably liked Eragon more because it was one of the first fantasy stories I read.

Never read it. Tried to read the story in Barnes & Nobles but I had to go to an appointment.

Ah, yes. I think we can all relate to being a gigantic retard who carries someone around on their shoulders.

Hmm.  Lots of books to choose from.

I'll say "Pale Fire," "Fangirl," and "The Last Unicorn."

The Last Unicorn is on my way-too-freaking-big reading list. Do you have anything to say about it that would bump it up on the list?

I don't wanna oversell it- you'll just be disappointed. Also, I've pretty much lost the ability to explain things coherently.

For me it's always going to be influenced by the fact that it was the first film I ever saw that didn't have a "happy ending."   You always invest memory with significance, but the way I remember it now was absolutely devastating, in a good way.  

Every time I re-read it, I identify with different characters.  I feel differently about the people and the story as my life experiences change, but I always feel like it's true. 

I guess that's what saying a book "speaks to me" means: When I read it, I feel like this writer understands something about what it's like to be me. 

Mine would probably have to be Promise of the wolves.

The Outsiders, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Steelheart (The Reckoners series) really grabbed and held my interest. But the best one that spoke to me the most is probably Racing in the Rain.

'A good man is hard to find' by Flannery O'Connor.

Srsly, turbo?  What about it?

Or maybe even, Of Mice and Men.

The advetnures of Alfred Kropp was a good James Patterson book. That book spoke to me the most.