SLIDESHOW: The 5 Most Influential Books in Daniel Radcliffe's Life
For its "You Are What You Read" campaign, Scholastic has just released Daniel Radcliffe's "bookprint" -- the five most influential books in his life. Number 5 is an easy guess: "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," by J.K. Rowling. "I think it's fair to say that if we're talking about the five books that have most influenced my life, I think it would be pretty churlish of me not to say 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' for giving me everything that I have and everything that I will have," Radcliffe says.
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1) "The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway
"I think 'The Old Man and Sea' was probably the first book by a really classic author that I ever read, and it was then that I realized that things were classics for a reason, and they weren’t all just really, really, really hard work," Radcliffe says.
2) "Germinal," by Emile Zola
Radcliffe says it "was the first sort of longer and more European novel that I ever read, and I remember reading it in like five days. It’s a long book, and I’m a slow reader, but I just did nothing else."
3) "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," by Hunter S. Thompson
"It was given to me on my 15th birthday by a friend, and I just thought it was the funniest thing I ever read and kind of amazing and captured the period of time brilliantly," Radcliffe reflects.
4) "The Master and Margarita," by Mikhail Bulgakov
The "Harry Potter" star calls this book "the greatest exploration of the human imagination, and it’s about forgiveness and life and history, and it’s just the most incredible book that I’ve ever read; I read it once and then I read it almost immediately again."
