What is a book that made a big impression on you

Yeah, cool. What was it, a Sopwith Camel or a Spad or something?

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I was only a kid so not sure…both sound possible haha. It was a cool little kit and I was probably only about 10 or so…I loved the military stuff back then!

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My memory is bad too. I built several balsa wood bi-planes
but I can’t remember the names either!

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Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Really laid the foundation for my current nihilism.

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i have read many books but i dont remember most of them.

the one that comes to mind are the sidney sheldon novels

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The Lord of the Rings…I read voraciously as a child and soon moved up to bigger books. I remember reading the hobbit when young and soon moved to the LOTR. I was in grade 7 and had the whole single volume edition that I’d been reading since that summer. Read it all through to my 7th grade year and it was amazing. I still have a foundness for heroic fantasy and I’ve read an aweful lot trying to refind that first experiece with Tolkien.

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When I was a young teen, Jacqueline Wilson books covered quite serious topics.
Darren Shan - the demonata was my favourite and got me into spoopy writing,

These days I’m into crime thrillers haha.

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I really liked The Alchemist of Paulo Coelho.

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Schindler’s list.this one the first book that i read.second is the message from carl sagan.i think i read all of them when i was 14 years old.

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The bible has helped me alot.

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The Goosebumps books as a kid.

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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. I don’t know why anymore but i read it a couple of times…

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hmm…probably “the city in history” my favorite architectural history book…second, “a confederacy of dunces”, third, the dune books by frank herbert, “love in the time of cholera”, when I was a boy I read “the red badge of courage” and it affected me to not like war.

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Many books.
When i was a teenager, Antichrist of Nietzsche
shocked me

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Several books, but if I had to list one, it would be “Algorithmic Trading”.

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I got to meet R.L. Stine at a book signing. I love the Goosebumps series! He was such a down to earth and friendly dude qt the book signing.

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The one book that made the biggest, longest lasting impression on me was Gyn/Ecology, by Mary Daly, an academic, philosopher, and radical, lesbian feminist. I read this book when I was 20 and I was never the same again.

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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury.
And Black Boy by Richard Wright

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Biocentrism by Robert Lanza

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my daughter and me have read series. lots. just can’t seem to get enough. ha.

I could never say my favorites. where would I start. I’ve been reading my whole life.

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