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>> No. 4819 Anonymous
16th October 2012
Tuesday 11:56 pm
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Hey there, /lit/. Do you remember any books which inspired you as a child? I'm very interested to see what you were all reading when you were all young'ins, doubly so if those books gave you an interest in science and space.
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>> No. 4820 Anonymous
17th October 2012
Wednesday 12:11 am
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>> No. 4821 Anonymous
17th October 2012
Wednesday 12:29 am
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Never really into science and that, first proper book I read as a kid, after catching a little bit of the TV series and liking the cover.
>> No. 4822 Anonymous
17th October 2012
Wednesday 1:48 am
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Sometimes I used to have nightmares. I never told anyone because I thought my mum would stop me from reading the series. Such a shame I outgrew the horror genre.
>> No. 4823 Anonymous
17th October 2012
Wednesday 12:06 pm
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When I think of science fiction books I read as a child, I think of The Warlord of the Air, The Time Machine, HHGTTG, The Silkie, Slan and The Voyage of the Space Beagle. I read most of the other books their authors wrote too, but those stood out in particular.
I read them before I ever came across Goosebumps or Animorphs. Harry Potter hadn't even been written yet. A bit of an odd childhood.
>> No. 4824 Anonymous
17th October 2012
Wednesday 12:23 pm
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One of the books in this series, despite being American, helped to further my interest in medicine and the human body that eventually lead to my study in later life.

Horrible Histories were pretty boss too.
>> No. 4825 Anonymous
24th October 2012
Wednesday 7:43 pm
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This book has stayed with me. Partially because it's the first book (to memory) that I had a say in the buying of, partially because there was a good deal of alter-egoism going on with the main character.
>> No. 4826 Anonymous
31st October 2012
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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I read The Wasp Factory when quite young and regretted it
>> No. 4827 Anonymous
2nd November 2012
Friday 10:10 pm
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>>4819

This book really is one of a kind.
>> No. 4828 Anonymous
3rd November 2012
Saturday 12:31 am
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This was my favourite book growing up:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/True-Stories-Horror-Monster-Ghost/dp/0590199862

It has loads of short stories (I was never into novels) that are based on historical cases like Lizzie Borden, Amytyville Horror (which is written in the form of diary entries) and others. What was really great was that after each story, it had a section on how the appropriate supernatural lore can be seen to fit that specific case, some facts about the real cases (since the stories were written to be scary more than anything), and some other interesting facts.

For example, the story about the assassination of Lincoln has a factoid after it that lists all the strange coincidences and similarities it has to the JFK assassination. The Lizzie Borden factoid lists the alternative theories about how it might have happened rather than the one presented in the story.

It was a really all-round great book. I don't know if it gave me an interest in science, but I definitely have that now, and I would still like to get this book again. It fueled my imagination without telling me what to think or providing conclusive answers. It covers different explanations, but at no point says 'ghosts and ghouls don't exist', which I think is a bad thing to tell a child anyway. It's the only time they can be reasonably expected to get scared and enjoy magic in their lives.
>> No. 4832 Anonymous
5th November 2012
Monday 10:25 pm
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This has to be one of the biggest influences on me for most of my early life. It was one of the few truly interesting books in my year 3 portacabin classroom's meagre selection. I was always best at science and it was my favourite subject all the way through school, probably going back to this book.

When I was about 15 I found a book about Salvador Dali in my high school's library, though, and I think it affected me rather fundamentally. I think the parents are still disappointed in my change of direction.
>> No. 4872 Anonymous
8th December 2012
Saturday 6:17 pm
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>When I was about 15 I found a book about Salvador Dali in my high school's library, though, and I think it affected me rather fundamentally. I think the parents are still disappointed in my change of direction.
A vaguely similar tale to yours, I suppose; I know I'm inviting scorn, but I was 14 or 15 when I read this and it had a profound, lasting impact. I simply had no idea that it was possible to write in this manner. I found it electrifying, utterly absorbing. I haven't read it in many years now and I'm not sure I ought to again, it's a young man's book really.

(Irvine Welsh followed, naturally.)
>> No. 4913 Anonymous
7th January 2013
Monday 2:00 pm
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I think when I was 13 or so and read Rainbow Six, I started working out a bit which lasted a couple of years, that was cool. 8 years later, and so probably for the rest of my life, whenever I get to a pain barrier or injure myself during a task, I think of Eddie Price doing some SAS stuff with a broken rib, and I power on through.
It's strange. I'm much more into philosophy but all other books I've read have just given me ideas, Rainbow Six (as silly as it sounds) is the only book to have driven me to things I wouldn't have otherwise accomplished.
>> No. 4915 Anonymous
7th January 2013
Monday 5:00 pm
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This started my passion for Science, it was a rainy Sunday and with nothing else to do I just started reading it.
>> No. 4916 Anonymous
7th January 2013
Monday 5:16 pm
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When I was about five I spent all my time looking at atlases. Even today I still know the capitals and flags and shapes and neighbours and rough populations and relative GDPs of a million countries.
>> No. 4917 Anonymous
7th January 2013
Monday 7:32 pm
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>>4872
Have you read "If you liked school you've love work?"
>> No. 4918 Anonymous
7th January 2013
Monday 9:18 pm
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Yes, and the rest, except the most recent one which I only just learned about just now. Might toddle off to Amazon and get it.

Of all his books, Filth left the most lasting mark, being utterly vile. I've read other books that are way off the weird and over-the-top end of disgusting - Naked Lunch being the obvious choice, also pretty much anything published by Savoy (Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of Oz, yes that is a book) - but nothing else has made me feel physically dirty after reading it to the extent that Filth did. Crime was the least rewarding, being a ham-fisted retelling of Nabokov's finest (the previous one was a take on Dorian Gray and was ok).
>> No. 4935 Anonymous
18th January 2013
Friday 9:31 am
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The Great Big Book of Space is my earliest book memory. I remember looking at a picture of the Horse Head nebula in it. I remember feeling literally dizzy. And then I read that what I was looking at was a photograph.

I also loved the "how things work" books and the giant cutaway books. Basically anything that featured intricate technical illustrations was something I loved as a kid, and still do. Definitely got me interested in engineering in general, though it's not the path I've taken career wise, I'm the only person in my peer group that could rewire a house. I also take apart pretty much everything I buy.

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