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  1. @alexwelts2553

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    Bridge to terrabithia effed me up as a kid. It was so sad. I pretty much read books every night for hours because insomnia. My whole life, until my life became unmanageable in 2017, and my eyesight declined.. all the Steven King except i couldn't get into the dark tower ones and anything that came out after 2017. All the vc Andrews and anne Rice and Mario puzo and just stacks and stacks of library books, some good, some forgettable. I realized that not every book is a keeper and certainly not a rereader. One called good girls gone bad i forget by who, about a girl who was an actuary in NYC, always stayed in my mind. And a Mario puzo with a kid sneaking and screwing up these cheesecake prototype attempts until he invented a good one. Weird thing happened while i was reading anna Karenina, the same thing happened with my daughter's dads inability to hide the stupid microexpression when i asked him who's female genitals were the wallpaper on his phone screen, stupid smile and an I don't know. It's like the book consumed me and my life when i wasn't looking. And it's been escalated strangeness ever since. There's a lot more, i read like 6 hours a day for like 30 years. i just can't remember or whatever fragments i say are getting weirder and less articulate.

  3. @MossyMozart

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    "Tibetan Book of the Dead". If I ever decide to be religious, it will be as a Buddhist – you get infinite chances to get it right, unlike the Abrahamic faiths where it is one try and done, oops you fail.

    I tried Umberto Eco – I got through "The Name of the Rose" (the film was very wise to par it down so much), but I had to bail early on "Foucault's Pendulum". Maybe I am not smart enough nor have a viable attention span.

  4. @wideawake5630

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    At seven I was reading from the bestseller list, Freud and Nietsczhe at fourteen. As a writer I was heavily influenced by the Golden Age science fiction authors. Archeology, anthropology, physics. When I started raising kids I all but gave up novels in favor of short story anthologies so I could hide in the john and knock one out start to finish. The Bible in many translations. World religious texts too.
    Most of my life I reread Moby Dick and A Canticle For Leibowitz every five or ten years. Now vegan and about thirty years free from meat I can't stomach the whaling scenes anymore but still find Leibowitz timely, unfortunately. Stephen King for the fun of a good story, Rushdie for sublime wordcraft.

  5. @Murphycats

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    This takes me back. When I was in elementary school, I would start reading a certain genre (the first was Biographies) and then the librarian would not let me check any more out. I had to pick something new. And that is when I discovered Heinlein and Bradbury. I read everything my small library had and then was forced to move on to something else. And yes in later years I devoured John Irving and Hemingway. Books are the more incredible things. I've never read Dickens but I love Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment was so real I felt cold the whole time I read it. And don't forget short stories like The Piece of String and the Overcoat. I love to read!

  7. @supernautistaken

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    i've heard of maybe 1/4 of your literary history and read maybe 2 or 3 of those books. mine is a little less fond. While I had the privilege of reading tolkien, the other classics that occupied my time as a child were dickens, hubbard, homer, and a pharmacology textbook i din't pay enough attention to. Thinking about it now my formative literature was very narrow in scope and shallow in depth. It wasn't until much later in life that i read C.S. Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Green, George Martin, Alan Moore, and others. I have always had this fantasy that people can connect on broad sets of wavelengths by just naming an author and understanding that we both have the same knowledge having known them, but in reality that has as much meaning as " he, have you seen 'friends'? I'm having a hard time knowing i have 2 years worth of beans and a molotov cocktail but nothing to do with my life but drink myself to death in front of a hateful screen

  15. @nibiru6170

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    I am embarrassed to say I haven’t read any non school books in my life (not much of a reader )but am trying to change that, am 19 do you have a suggestion for me ……..

  24. @UBI_NOW

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    berliquet children book not necessarily exceptionally good but my childhood such an impact that still today I use as my password often Opps!

  28. @hatfieldrick

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    "Jerusalem" by Alan Moore, "Bridge of Birds" by Barry Hughart, "Till We Have Faces" by C.S.Lewis, anything by Iain Banks, Tim Powers or Tim Dorsey. And yes, always, Borges.

  31. @goodlife2322

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    Frank Herbert's Dune series. Great read (all of them). Read them in my teens and sparked my interest about human psychology, evolution, and development.
    In my community I'm considered crazy.

  32. @kaydars

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    Isaac Asimov; Red Dwarf; Erik van Lustbader (as lusty and man-pornly as his name sounds 😀 ); yup, Harry Potter; Josephus; Hugh Nibley!; D. Christian Markham's "There are Save 2 Churches Only"; Spike Milligan; oh, Neil Gaiman – he's an author to savour :D; H G Wells!; C S Lewis; Douglas Adams; Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo graphic novels; Lloyd Pie's "Everything You Know is Wrong"; Adam Shaddowchild!

  36. @digdug4397

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    Read Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes! He won the Noble Prize for Literature, if that sways you at all, and it's short, so not much of a time investment. (Yay for run-ons!)

    I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention Nabokov, as I imagine he'd be right up your alley, but maybe he just didn't make your short list. On the off chance that you haven't (which I find quite unlikely), I'd start with his first novel(la), Mary, or his very poetic autobiography, Speak Memory. Then I'd read Lolita, which showcases what an effeminate Russian aristocrat/literary genius/trilingual-before-the-age-of-ten can do when he really gets going. The amount of intertextual hints and references is staggering, but it's a breathtaking story even if you catch none of them. (The book's bad reputation comes entirely from people who've never read it, by the way.)

    P.S. Re: Lolita: Don't read the annotations the first time through (if you get the annotated version) as it ruins the entire narrative halfway through.

  37. @aubrey310

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    I was having a crappy night, getting ready to go to sleep. Just scrolling and scrolling through my suggested videos. Then I saw this video and got a jolt of excitement! 😊 Perfect title on just the right channel. Watching it made me believe (just like every other video) that you must be a genius and realise I might be addicted. Ty ☺

  38. @mickmickymick6927

    July 31, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    I remember reading 1984 when I was around 10 or 11, I read the machine gunners and swallows and amazons too which I later discovered were classics. I took a break until I decided I wanted to read the best books there were so got a list of the greatest ever books from the internet and started going through them.

    There was a lot of period romantic drama by Austen which weren't great by Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre were quite good, I also read and greatly enjoyed Captain Corelli's Mandolin. With many breaks I got through Ulysses which was interesting, some Steinbeck and probably some more before eventually stopping.

    In college I read some required and recommended reading which I don't remember much of but I probably learnt from and I think mostly enjoyed. Towards the end of college I turned off fiction and basically decided to only read non-fiction from here on out (though I did read The Importance of Being Earnest before that), I read The Game and Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell which were quite influential in how I see the world, though I later read that Gladwell made up some of the stories he told. I read Decisions by Jonah Lehrer which I remember some of too.

    After that I don't remember too well, a book on Byzantium and Bonnie Prince Charlie last year and I'm currently reading Freakonomics which is very interesting but doesn't really change my worldview or teach me a lot new. Oh yeah, I got through Willpower by Roy(I think) Baumeister which was a bit skant, it kind of blew its load in the first chapter. There was also Re-Wire your brain which wasn't especially practical and advertised itself generally but was actually quite specific.

    I remember reading Octavio Paz in college and thought it was utter shite, the same can be said of JJ Lee, who I read in college too. I read 'the History of Communism' or some similar title which was very USSR-focused and was more like 'the History of the USSR and a couple of other communist countries', I also read the Stalin book by Simon Sebag Montefiore which was took a long time too and probably not all of it sank in that deep.

    There was also a Political History of Italy, one of my favourite books, along with How Politics Change or something similar about why voters vote the way they do. Two great, scientific books examing something intelligently and accurately. I've listed a lot of books but I never thought of myself as being much of a reader throughout my life and I'd like to read more.

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