Books that have heavily influenced you

[Screwtape]

The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell.

 

[DataBreach]

This book is what made me want to be a writer. I have a lot in common with the writer too. We both learned from our own unique experiences and then wrote about them. It's actually common in writers. John Grisham was a attorney who writes mainly about attorneys.

 

[ShackleMeNot]

 

[badascan]

The wide range of topic covered greatly expanded my consciousness and gave me many roads to travel in the persuit of knowledge.

 

[Fatchops]

 

[Pixelated Porn]

A lot of Stephen Kings stuff, because oftentimes the good guys don't win.

Which books? Outside of short stories, I remember the good guys winning. IT gets killed, the vampires in SL get defeated, even dick haloran does not die in the shining, and etc.

 

[GSP_37]

Martin Luther King biography as a kid.

 

[Mike]

Which books? Outside of short stories, I remember the good guys winning. IT gets killed, the vampires in SL get defeated, even dick haloran does not die in the shining, and etc.

In Cujo they survive the dog, but the kid still dies.

In the dark half the writer beats his evil twin, but it's implied he goes insane afterwards.

Roland survives in the dark tower, but almost everyone else dies horribly.

The guy wins in Salems lot, but the love of his life and most of his friends die.

The guy wins in the tommynockers, but he dies and the woman he loves dies.

They win in the stand, but god kills everyone that ventured to the devils city to stop him.

In pet cemetery the main character dies, his entire family dies, the cursed burial ground wins.

In desperation the kids group survives, but the kid still sees his entire family die. The little girl gets blasted by a shotgun. Most of the people involved die.


So a lot of pyrrhic victories, and as you mentioned the protagonists lose in a lot of short stories like the raft and the boogeyman

 

[HARRISON_3]

 

[fortheo]

As an adult, I was heavily influenced by these two works:

As a child, I was heavily influenced by these two books:

All of the above books helped mold my perception on how I think about socially accepted standards.

 

[ScriptReadsMe]

Thank you for your contributions, even if some are very dubious

Anyone know which book Rockhold was referring to when he said it had helped him a lot to get where he is right now?

 

[Losfer Words]

 

[no fat chicks]

To kill a mockingbird, brave new world, 1984 and animal farm

GOT lately as well

 

[Instigator5150]

Helped me to better understand the effects of screens (his argument is based on television, but I think it could be rightly extended to computers, cell phones, etc.) on the way that we collectively think, write, and speak.

 

[Beechwood]

I recently read Stanley Milgrams book "Obedience to Authority". It was eye opening for me. It can be seen here:

Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Perennial Classics)

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“The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences.” — Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

In the 1960s Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of experiments that forever changed our perceptions of morality and free will. The subjects—or “teachers”—were instructed to administer electroshocks to a human “learner,” with the shocks becoming progressively more powerful and painful. Controversial but now strongly vindicated by the scientific community, these experiments attempted to determine to what extent people will obey orders from authority figures regardless of consequences. “Milgram’s experiments on obedience have made us more aware of the dangers of uncritically accepting authority,” wrote Peter Singer in the New York Times Book Review. Featuring a new introduction from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, Obedience to Authority is Milgram’s fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation of his conclusions.

 

[Sampsonsimpson]

Fiction: the Bible

Non-fiction: If I did it

 

[Gene Tunney]

Man and His Symbols by Carl G. Jung and Co.

 

[Da Speeit]

I've molded my whole fucking life after this:

lol came to post this. I actually think it's a shit book but the themes are very interesting and polarizing.

 

[Da Speeit]

As an adult, I was heavily influenced by these two works:







As a child, I was heavily influenced by these two books:

All of the above books helped mold my perception on how I think about socially accepted standards.

don't think i've ever been so bummed out by a book

 

[fortheo]

don't think i've ever been so bummed out by a book

Which one? Devils arithmetic?