RE: Your Three Most Influential Books
June 14, 2015 at 5:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2015 at 5:45 am by Cyberman.)
I don't know as I can say there have been any individual books that have shaped the me that I am today. I've always been a rapacious reader ever since I learned the art, well before I started school; though the internet has somewhat spoiled my attention span for proper books - hey look, a cat falling over.
So there have been plenty of books that have resonated with what I already pieced together as me. I've read from Marx through to Hitchens, from Wells to Stephen King (not exactly my favourite author, that one).
The only works I can think of to answer the question even loosely would be the various astronomy books by the irreplaceable Sir Patrick Moore, which opened my imagination to the scale of the Universe; and - please don't laugh - the set of Rupert The Bear books with which my parents taught me to read in the first place. Apart from the almost certain fortune they might be worth in a collectible sense (and we still have them), they gave me my love of books and writing, without which I can't begin to imagine what my life would have been like.
So there have been plenty of books that have resonated with what I already pieced together as me. I've read from Marx through to Hitchens, from Wells to Stephen King (not exactly my favourite author, that one).
The only works I can think of to answer the question even loosely would be the various astronomy books by the irreplaceable Sir Patrick Moore, which opened my imagination to the scale of the Universe; and - please don't laugh - the set of Rupert The Bear books with which my parents taught me to read in the first place. Apart from the almost certain fortune they might be worth in a collectible sense (and we still have them), they gave me my love of books and writing, without which I can't begin to imagine what my life would have been like.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
