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What books have influenced your life?
« on: 2004-03-08 22:52:41 »
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Interesting to see which books are most important to the lives of others (admitedly a pretty biased sample over at Kuro5hin):

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/4/3157/15548
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Re:What books have influenced your life?
« Reply #1 on: 2004-05-05 22:51:09 »
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Why I am not a Christian, Bertrand Russell
The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell
Critiques of God: Making the case against the belief in God, Peter A. Angeles
Art of War, Sun Tzu translated by: Ralph D. Sawyer
In the Beggining: Science Faces God in The Book of Genesis, Isaac Asimov
How We Believe, Michael Shermer

These are the first books that came to my mind when I thought of books that influenced my life.  I hope you find them interesting or helpful to your own development.  I'm sure I have more books to add to this list, and I may add them later.

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"Mission Box" by Aris Alexandrou
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Conciousness Explained by Dennet
Opened my mind a few years ago to a whole new world

The Red Queen by Ridley
Some of the explanations were so overwhelming I am ordering 2 trivers books
Genomic Imprinting and Kinship, Natural Selection and Social Theory
I have had an interest in genetics and it's great to finally dive into the field

The Blank Slate by Pinker
Many of his thoughts were my own at the time i read it. But he writes in such a way as that I think, That's exactly what I thought I just couldn't organize it in my mind until now. 

Invariances by Nozwick
Nozwick always challenges me and he has change the way i think about things.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Dennet
I don't think anyone could explain as clearly and percise as he does. Refreashing and Invigorating.




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« Reply #5 on: 2004-05-28 01:07:10 »
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This list is hardly all-inclusive, but the following are the best of the best of the books that have influenced me most profoundly:

    Richard Dawkins:
          The Selfish Gene, New Edition
          The Extended Phenotype
          River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

    Susan Blackmore:
          The Meme Machine

    Daniel Dennett:
          Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

    Richard Wright:
          The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are:
          The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

    Matt Ridley:
          Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:
          Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

    Walter Kaufmann:
          Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, 4th ed.

    And everything Nietzsche himself wrote . . . at least from
    The Gay Science onward.
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"When God was a Woman" by Merlin Stone

"Buddhism: Plain and Simple" by Steven Hagen

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« Reply #7 on: 2004-12-07 18:06:50 »
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Interesting to think about this.
The books that influenced my life have always been speculative fiction.  The stuff that makes me want to be more than I am now.  In the main, it makes me want to stretch my mind and vocabulary; it always made me want to be a writer, and last week I finished writing my first novel and I'm intensely happy with how it turned out.  I wrote the book I would love to read.

Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club.  Makes me re-evaluate my priorities every time I read/watch it.  Of course it's not the 'watch Rocky and do push-ups' syndrome, but it refreshes the urge to be truer to my heart.

William Golding - Lord of the Flies.  Confirmed from a very young age everything I suspected about the potential of human nature, even in children.

Hard to pinpoint any major influences though; more like I get little influences (either positive or negative) from every book I read.


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Quote from: Joe Blood on 2004-12-07 18:06:50   

Interesting to think about this.
The books that influenced my life have always been speculative fiction.  The stuff that makes me want to be more than I am now.  In the main, it makes me want to stretch my mind and vocabulary; it always made me want to be a writer, and last week I finished writing my first novel and I'm intensely happy with how it turned out.  I wrote the book I would love to read.

Please tell us more about your book.
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« Reply #9 on: 2004-12-08 17:04:45 »
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Okay, in a nutshell, it's about three dead men who sell the weather, become massive celebrities and end up accidentally becoming terrorists after destroying the houses of Parliament, Downing Street and sinking the QEII during a meeting of diplomats from the member states of the E.U.

It's very fast paced, dry humour and dark comedy told in the first-person, present tense narrative, and chock full of justified pain/blood (in the name of art), smart-ass witticisms, mockery of society and general fun.

I'm just in the process of last bits of cleaning up and trying to find an agent to represent it.  Will let you know more as & when.
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