Books that changed you
- Thread starter Melmoth
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Asterix and Obleix - Gosciny and Uderzo : Oh, those anti-Imperialist attitudes and 'magic potions' suited me to a tee as a 6 year-old learning how to read!
Tintin - Herge : Kids being James Bonds was cool. and all those foreign exotic destinations - even the moon!
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton : I wanted to live there!
Tom Sawyer / Huckleberry Finn - I just loved how there was some sort of new drama in each chapter, kinda like cliff-hnager serial.
Dead Zone - Stephen King : great depressing psychic conspiarcy theroy.
many others as I got older Phillp K Dick, JG Ballard, Harry Crews, KW Jeter, LAberto Moravia, Lester Bangs.
Tintin - Herge : Kids being James Bonds was cool. and all those foreign exotic destinations - even the moon!
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton : I wanted to live there!
Tom Sawyer / Huckleberry Finn - I just loved how there was some sort of new drama in each chapter, kinda like cliff-hnager serial.
Dead Zone - Stephen King : great depressing psychic conspiarcy theroy.
many others as I got older Phillp K Dick, JG Ballard, Harry Crews, KW Jeter, LAberto Moravia, Lester Bangs.
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Doubt anyone would be surprised to learn it's Gravity's Rainbow that looms largest for me. It didn't make itself felt at first, I finished it and just went about my business then a few years later ended up spending the better part of a year reading mountains of papers, articles, blog posts and whatever else I could get my hands on. Since then it's just continued to reverberate, like a bomb went off in my head and the shockwave's still going.