Black Stallion books I guess. I thought I wanted to be a jockey before I wanted to be the next Feynman due to seeing him on TV and reading physics books.
Tolkien, I mean I memorized some poetry and read some of the posthumous works.
I think I'd only read the third book until college but the Damiano series had! my! names!
I dunno, I read a bunch of series -- Pern, Narnia, Prydain, Earthsea, Foundation, Star Trek novels, Dune, etc -- but mostly I don't think of them as changed/shaped my life. Though the attitude of the luck guy in Taran Wanderer may have left an impression for later.
L. Neil Smith's Tom Paine Maru steered me toward 15 years of libertarianism, I guess that's a pretty big impact.
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on 2018-12-19 06:37 pm (UTC)Tolkien, I mean I memorized some poetry and read some of the posthumous works.
I think I'd only read the third book until college but the Damiano series had! my! names!
I dunno, I read a bunch of series -- Pern, Narnia, Prydain, Earthsea, Foundation, Star Trek novels, Dune, etc -- but mostly I don't think of them as changed/shaped my life. Though the attitude of the luck guy in Taran Wanderer may have left an impression for later.
L. Neil Smith's Tom Paine Maru steered me toward 15 years of libertarianism, I guess that's a pretty big impact.