Duff Ostrich Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I read this article days after 9/11. I was thirteen years old. Though my worldview was formed by this time, the best philosophical pieces I've managed to read remain John Locke's Second Treatise of Government and Emmanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redturtle806 Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Ridiculous. Book sales have been increasing in recent years, not decreasing. E-books might change that, but there will always be some demand for real books, and reading is never going to disappear. I'm guessing he means more toward the rampant consumerism and the growing ignorance that people have toward the government these days. Also I know a lot of people who haven't read a non-school book ever. The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath were books that influenced me a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizenberg Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 battle royale a brilliant book to read when you're 14 years old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrhesia Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Catch-22 and Das Boot. The latter was physically painful to read, and finishing it was the most dismally rewarding thing I've ever done. Read. Both. All of you. This is an order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M. Gei Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 oh there's also To Kill a Mockingbird, and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings during high school for me. Both were pretty amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Banzai Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Catch-22 and Das Boot. The latter was physically painful to read, and finishing it was the most dismally rewarding thing I've ever done. Read. Both. All of you. This is an order. I concur, at least for Catch-22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLovin Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Catch-22 and Das Boot. The latter was physically painful to read, and finishing it was the most dismally rewarding thing I've ever done. Read. Both. All of you. This is an order. :awesome:Saw the movies when I was a kid. Don't remember them too well. Also, I'd say the shitton of old books I've read have influenced me. Including the old series books and pulp fiction and dime novels. Yes Dime Novels. Come at me Bros. Also, I remember reading good old series books like (Ask your resident senior citizens about the following series's Tom Swift(Early 20th century) Boy Allies(WW1 era stories) (Misc other series too numerous to name) Also, I guess I tried to follow the really old fashioned way of morals when I was a kid, didn't work so well at times though.. Due to some feminist teacher at the private school I went to (for several years) sending me to the front office for stupid shit like pulling out chairs for girls and stuff then.(I was 12, give me a break). Anyways, I think those books influenced me to act with a sort of habit to call Women "Miss" and "M'am" and all. And, I got to enjoy reading series after fucking series, god, I've even got some old browned out Spanish-American War era books that are very brittle and I still enjoy reading them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Catch-22 and Das Boot. The latter was physically painful to read, and finishing it was the most dismally rewarding thing I've ever done. Read. Both. All of you. This is an order. The Das Boot book? Ya I do want to read this some time. If you like sci-fi, you might want to try Glen Cook's A Passage at Arms. Is Das Boot in Space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ein Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Oh yeah. I also forgot about Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Never again. It's just... so bad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Banzai Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Oh yeah. I also forgot about Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Never again. It's just... so bad... You mean so good right? "Humbert Humbert came humming along..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helios Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 I really liked Invisible Man and 1984. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Wright Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 I really need to read more non-fiction books relating to my interests. I'm sure those would influence me quite a bit (Hawking, Kaku, Tyson). It's not really the tale or the argument from a fictional book that influences me, it's the discussion about it. I don't read much fiction, regrettably, but I love the discussions that I have while in class, like with The Great Gatsby, as an example. Discussions bring about ideas that one doesn't usually think of on their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBM Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 oh there's also To Kill a Mockingbird, and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings during high school for me. Both were pretty amazing. I just read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The circumstances she went through were pretty horrific. It really strikes home for you what the situation in those times was. Sadly, it doesn't actually make you like Maya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celice Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 I really need to read more non-fiction books relating to my interests. I'm sure those would influence me quite a bit (Hawking, Kaku, Tyson). It's not really the tale or the argument from a fictional book that influences me, it's the discussion about it. I don't read much fiction, regrettably, but I love the discussions that I have while in class, like with The Great Gatsby, as an example. Discussions bring about ideas that one doesn't usually think of on their own. Sounds like it's time to arrange skype discussion hour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artemis Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 (edited) Twilight by Stephanie Meyer has influenced me on how not write. It also has taught me how to tell if someone has a good taste in books or not. Edited May 13, 2012 by Artemis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defeatist Elitist Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 There's a number, but two that haven't been mentioned at all here are Welcome to the NHK (the novel, not the shitty, barely similar manga or anime adaptions, read the actual book, which is incredible), and of course Nineteen-Eighty-Four. I also was fairly influenced by The Old Man and the Sea and Lord of the Flies, but that may be because I first read them when I was 11, and then again when I was 16, which gives you a really really good idea of the big points when you change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Lion Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 I have three books that I can say have definitely influenced me; Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman. So technically that's five. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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