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Books that have affected me that come to mind this moment in time...
1. How to win friends and Influence People - read as a 10 year old....took me 20 years to start talking about myself...
2. A Separate Peace - I just connected to this book as a kid, relating to the characters within.
3. Hardy Boys books - taught me the love of reading for escapism
4. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged - got me thinking about life differently
5. Ed Emberley's Make A World (any of his books really) taught me to love creating, well, worlds.
6. Sophie's World - sparked an interest in understanding and learning about different faiths and ways of thinking
7. Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy and Cornish Trilogies
8. Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series - an interest and new understanding of how the world works - this is the guy who wrote The Jungle - the book that got the FDA started in the US.
9. Ian Flemming's James Bond series - quality writing that stands head an shoulders above so much of the American thriller/adventure/spy genre, even today, that taught me to look at originals when I can, and not look to Americanized remakes (books, movies, tv, etc...) before I've seen the originals - this goes for source material in research as well...but these books were where I started thinking about it as a kid
God, there are so many....
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