RE: Your Three Most Influential Books
June 12, 2015 at 1:14 am
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2015 at 1:19 am by SteelCurtain.)
East of Eden opened my eyes to writing. Real, serious, figurative, incredible writing. Samuel Hamilton and Lee are so real you feel like you know them. I can still see the photo of Steinbeck on the back. He's almost serious, with a sick moustache, and a lit cigarette. I remember thinking, yassss motherfucker. You know you're the shit.
![[Image: Steinbeck.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=reading.cornell.edu%2FThe_Grapes_of_Wrath%2Fimages%2FSteinbeck.jpg)
There it is.
![[Image: Steinbeck.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=reading.cornell.edu%2FThe_Grapes_of_Wrath%2Fimages%2FSteinbeck.jpg)
There it is.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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