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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:44 am Post subject: What books have influenced you in life? | |
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some books that have had a huge influence on me, and i go back and re-read many of these at various intervals:
Camus: The Stranger, The Rebel pretty much all of Ayn Rand's books Sartre: Nausea Orwell: Animal Farm and 1984 Upton Sinclair: The Jungle Dostoyevsky: White Nights Kafka: Metamorphosis, the Trial & The Castle Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hemmingway: Sun Also Rises, Old Man & The Sea, Farewell to Arms Fitzgerald: Great Gatsby, collected short stories Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale Brett Easton Ellis: Less than Zero, Rules of Attraction HG Wells: Time Machine Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac Karel Capek: Rossums Universal Robots Heller: Catch 22 Golding: Lord of the Flies Huxley: Brave New World Bradbury: farenheit 451 |
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As a child: Roots
As a teen: The Selfish Gene As an adult: More of O'Reilly's catalog than I care to remember paying for. |
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O'Reilly - interesting site
i shall have to explore that in depth Last Chance: thats QUITE a list! you should be working for NASA. |
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God In the Dock - C.S. Lewis
Meditations on the First Philosophy - Renee Descartes 1984 - George Orwell Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:37 am Post subject: Re: What books have influenced you in life? | |
| The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises are great books too, but probably not as influential as the first batch. | |
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"Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond"
thats a new one on me - i just checked out the website for that...i'll look for it on PBS http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/index.html |
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Books that influenced me as a kid:
Esther Averill's The Fire Cat (first book I read cover to cover by myself) Anything penned by Beverly Cleary Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Books that influenced me as a teenager: William Golding's The Lord of the Flies Ellie Weisel's Night Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Books that influenced me as an adult: Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey 
/this is a partial list - I'm sure I could come up with more |
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Too numerous to put here
A few that pop up immediately? 1984 George Orwell Fahrenheit 451 Ray Baradbury The Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov Almost anything by Robert Heinlein |
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i LOVE the foundation trilogy ... Asimov did a list of his 'robots' timeline - starting with I Robot
http://www.sikander.org/foundation.php i keep meaning to re-read the entire list in the order he provided... to follow the entire lifetime of R Daneel Olivaw and this: The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey is probably my single favorite book of all time. 
entire book online: http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/stage/7535/gorey.html |
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I've got to start preparing for my tri-annual re-read of Asimov, probably starting with the Foundation series. I'm not disciplined enough to follow the timeline though. He did a couple of later foundations stories with Gentry Lee too so the trilogy is now whatever a five story set would be called.
I re-read most of his epic him every three or four years. Same with Clarke and Heinlein. |
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such an exceptional writer Asimov was
his influence on my life and thought processes really can not be exaggerated. |
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