A neighbor gave it to me when I was about nine years old. I haven't been right since.
Posted on 05/01/2018 3:18:41 PM PDT by Simon Green
Here's one that definitely influenced me: "Red Planet" by Robert A. Heinlein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Planet_(novel)
It's the first novel I can recall reading, around age 8 or so. It was the start of a lifelong love of speculative fiction, and Heinlein's Libertarian(ish) philosophy certainly put its imprint on me.
(The main chsracter's father discusses getting a pistol permit for his daughter. The grandfather chimes in:)
"That a free citizen should have to go before a committee, hat in hand, and pray for permission to bear arms - fantastic! Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats."
McLuhan - Understanding Media
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Thank you, FRiend.
Tatt
The Bible, without a doubt! And that’s saying something from one who was a smart mouth atheist who once tossed my teacher’s Bible, calling it just a book of myths. Her face turned ashen white, but she was still very nice to me.
“THE NAKED AND THE DEAD” by Norman Mailer. It was my first American novel after I started learning English. My second novel was “THE YOUNG LIONS” by Leon Uris.
I would agree.
We watched plenty of Billy’s crusades way back.
I, too, read "Red Planet" at an early age and it helped spark my lifelong love of SF (and probably sparked libertarian leanings as well). It wasn't the first SF book I read, though - that was "The Black Star Passes" by John W. Campbell.
“I’m just an old stump.”
Read this book in my late teens and touched me deeply. That wonderful, giving tree...faithfully unselfish to the end.
A neighbor gave it to me when I was about nine years old. I haven't been right since.
Well, the Bible, of course,
But also (not necessarily in order)
1984
Atlas Shrugged
Moby Dick
Ben Hur
Anything by Dostoyevsky
Dr. Zhivago
Jane Jetson.
Useless trivia of the day: Jane was only 17 years old when she gave birth to Judy Jetson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Jetsons_characters#Jane_Jetson
FORTRAN IV by Daniel McCraken.
Alcoholics Anonymous
I’m seriously thinking about making a homemade vacuum tube. I miss all of that old crap. I really hate digitally tuned radios. They don’t make the right sounds.
Oh, dear! I answered FORTRAN IV by McCraken.
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"None Dare Call It Treason"
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The Bible.
It shows how an agricultural southern people took on and industrialized northern foe.
You might not agree with the South but at least they fought for what they believed with unimaginable courage and bravery while we sit and watch the democrats/marxists indundate the country with Mexicans and foriegners to steal our country and our freedom from us Americans and us conservatives/Republicans.
The South had no factories to manufacture guns, cannon, war materials,no boats. The North blockaded all ports . Out of sheer hard work and courage they had to build up the factories for their guns and war materials from smuggled in drawings from England and a few smuggled in Englishman teachers.
Still they gave a superior economic and industrial age foe the north a fight for 5 years. fighting literally to the last man.
Stonewall Jackson defeated armies 3x the size again and and again with inferior equipment.
You might not agree with the South but at least they fought for what they believed with unimaginable courage and bravery while we sit and watch the democrats/marxists indundate the country with Mexicans and foriegners to steal our country and our freedom from us.
Bible
another good one - “who switched off my Brain?” dr caroline leaf
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