Which book(s) left a lasting impression on you?
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Ender's Game is the first book that I ever read and then immediately re-read. And told people about how awesome it was. My librarian in middle school actually bought the book for me at a book fair. She saw that I was reading fantasy books to "fit in" but noticed that I seemed way more interested in Sci-Fi.
And Fight Club.
I read Ender's Game more or less in one sitting. What a page turner.
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Anna Karenina. There's no better pshychological character study of upper class Russian culture (but at the same time, about people in general).
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Hatchet.
It taight me that you never have to give up. Even when all looks completely lost, keeping your head on a swivel and keeping yourself goal oriented, you can get yourself through almost anything.
Is that the one where the boy just up and decides to go live in a tree up in the Caskills and ends up with a pet falcon, or is that the one where the kid is stranded in the woods in a plane crash? I read those two books around the same time in later middle school and I think they ran together in my brain.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Tells you everything you need to know about war. First book which made me cry. Everybody should read it.
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I read Ender's Game more or less in one sitting. What a page turner.
Same, honestly. I think it was from the moment I got it in the afternoon at school all the way til past bed time.
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How to solve it by Polya.
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The Scar, China Meiville - It's an epic journey and the clear best, in my opinion, of the Bas Lag novels. It has such weight and magic to the journey. Mystery too. It's a book that leaves you feeling like you want to feel more.
The Wild Girls, Ursula K Le Guin - a tale so emotional that I was broken for two days after reading it. Couldn't bring myself to read, or really do much except think about what I'd read.
Its about a slaving raid on a village near a city state, family, love, and gender. -
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By cory Doctorow.Great author love all of his books. Love his its free to read any of his books on craphound. But i ended up buying physical copys because i just needed to own them.
The book talks about how things were with betamax and VHS. And how modern day tech is crap and how to fix it!
Its diffently the most influential books ive read.
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Same, honestly. I think it was from the moment I got it in the afternoon at school all the way til past bed time.
I know Orson Scott Card is persona non grata these days, but his sci-fi is still some of the best for my money. His short story collections, the Maps in a Mirror series, are great stuff and would be a goldmine for screenplay writers.
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So much impact for so short a story. Great pick!
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Is that the one where the boy just up and decides to go live in a tree up in the Caskills and ends up with a pet falcon, or is that the one where the kid is stranded in the woods in a plane crash? I read those two books around the same time in later middle school and I think they ran together in my brain.
Plane crash
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Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Gave me fresh perspective on the state of America
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Learning Perl, 2nd edition
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Can I say the entire Discworld series? Sure they're funny fantasy stories, but I reckon Pterry's view on humanity formed a lot of how I think about the world.
Also Dark Money by Jane Mayer.
Going to add Dark Money to my reading list. Thanks!
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Tells you everything you need to know about war. First book which made me cry. Everybody should read it.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]That book is partly why I oppose all war. The film Netflix produced of it a few years ago is pretty amazing too. The cinematography is almost too beautiful given the subject matter.
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Definitely not the bible. That shit is unreadable.
Also kind of annoying how God keeps doing awful things but is never cast as the bad guy.
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Witness.
(Not the book name, but if you've read the book, good on you).
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Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson.
The main character’s reflection on his past and continuation of growth really resonates with me.
I flew through all the Mistborn novels recently, and I started The Stormlight Archive a little while back. I'm on the second book now and loving it. Really looking forward to all the rest!
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Fear of Small Numbers, by Arjun Appadurai
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Learning Perl, 2nd edition
There's therapy for that.
