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I think I would have to say that I am somewhat like Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" when it comes to what books have affected me.
"At first the infant" - Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight. My mother read it to me when I was in kindergarten.
"And then the whining schoolboy" - Inferno by Dante Alighieri. I read it in 7th or 8th grade and it pops into my head all the time.
"And then the lover" - On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Read it in my 20's while living in NYC.
"Then a soldier" - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. One of the most beautiful books written in the last 50 years.
"And then the justice" - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Powerful.
I haven't gotten to the pantaloon or second childhood yet. Give me a few years,
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