This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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The Cyberiad and other talesThe Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem is one of the greatest SF books ever. Most of the stories are about two robot inventors named Trurl and Klapaucius, and the tales are a weird combination of fairy tales, information theory, philosophy, higher math, and occasionally quantum theory, with the result that you can read it at 10 and enjoy the fairy tale and again and again to learn more.
Bad Acts and Guilty minds by Leo Katz changed the way I thought about people. It looks at "conundrums of the criminal law" including real life-boat situations where people killed and ate a crewmate, and what happened to them when they were rescued.
Grammatical Man by Jeremy Campbell is incredible: reading it was a coup de foudre. It explains the underpinnings of information theory and how it applies to the universe in a way that most people fail to understand.
Against Method by Paul Feyerabend, which is a hilarious philosophical screed advocating "epistomelocial anarchy."
Also, Spike Milligan's war memoirs.
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So, the people on the boat...how did they choose who to eat, and what happened to them after?
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Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:38,
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