Writer's Block: Desert island
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1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder. Through this book I came to look at history not as a series of events, but the people and actions that led to those events. World War II started when Adolf Hitler couldn't get into art school in Vienna. I often look around at crowds in a mall or at traffic at a stop light and think "and what paths brought all of you to be here, now?"
2. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Half ripping yarn and half treatise on the ethics and philosophy of the military. Reading World War II histories made me want to be a soldier. Reading Starship Troopers made me understand why I should be one.
3. Traveller, Book 1: Characters and Combat, Book 2: Starships, Book 3: Worlds and Adventures by Marc Miller, et al. To say these books influenced and changed my life would be a gross understatement. :)
1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder. Through this book I came to look at history not as a series of events, but the people and actions that led to those events. World War II started when Adolf Hitler couldn't get into art school in Vienna. I often look around at crowds in a mall or at traffic at a stop light and think "and what paths brought all of you to be here, now?"
2. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Half ripping yarn and half treatise on the ethics and philosophy of the military. Reading World War II histories made me want to be a soldier. Reading Starship Troopers made me understand why I should be one.
3. Traveller, Book 1: Characters and Combat, Book 2: Starships, Book 3: Worlds and Adventures by Marc Miller, et al. To say these books influenced and changed my life would be a gross understatement. :)
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Date: 23 Sep 2011 15:09 (UTC)See, I knew I friended you for a reason.