What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you?
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@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein was assigned to me in a first year college seminar. It broke my brain in the best way. My lifelong struggle is with meaning, expectations, "shoulds." This book length prose poem is "abstract writing" or dada or deeply symbolic. Or all or none of that. I can understand that some may hate (be disappointed in) abstract art. To me it's life affirming. Time spent playing with thoughts is valuable. Art for art's sake.
I love it so much I made a fedi bot that posts it @tender_buttons
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@ShaulaEvans @afewbugs I know you said “book” and I’ve already answered with a series, but my real answer is “the library.”
I even wrote a bloody song about it. https://youtu.be/PsYB4tyTCEQ
@pdcawley @ShaulaEvans @afewbugs
That's beautiful.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon Hmmmm. No one book, but a lifetime of reading has set me down a path that brings me to who I am at present.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon Teach Yourself the Slide Rule by Saffold and Smalley.
Random find in local public library as a late teenager. Without acquiring the knowhow I wouldn't have survived first year physics at university (new subject for me) in the last year calculators were still banned. The failure rate was 50%. I scraped an honours, avoided repeats, spent the summer in NYC.
Still have that slide rule.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon George Orwell’s Animal Farm. I first read it in high school, and it made me deeply suspicious of “liberators”. It should be mandatory reading in #SouthAfrican schools.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon New Mutants #45
The story is about a kid who commits suicide after years of being bullied. His eulogy is performed by a girl he met once because none of his actual classmates ever bothered to get to know him. She uses the platform to excoriate hate just because someone applies a simplistic label like "geek" or "mutant" or "Jew" to someone else.I first read it in high school; I was maybe 15. I was in a very homogenous area where ANYTHING perceived as different (like myself) was mocked and bullied, and the story really resonated with me, making me really understand and appreciate how insanely stupid labels like that are. I judge people on who they are as an individual, not on some broad categorization.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon As a kid, my desire to understand every word (English is not my first laanguage) in this book was the beginning of a fulfilling path for me.
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@satsuma @alicemcalicepants I used to know people in historical swordsmanship circles! I wonder if you've ever come across Brad Waller?
@ShaulaEvans @alicemcalicepants I’m in the UK but I think we might have a connection via Prof Mark Donnelly who started the group I was involved with before moving back stateside
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@satsuma @ShaulaEvans @bookstodon @alicemcalicepants
Gödel, Escher, Bach "switched my mind on" when i was 15 years old; i did not understand all in the book, but my mind was altered, and in a positive way. since then i check and double-check everything i read or see (or think).@davidramirer @ShaulaEvans @bookstodon @alicemcalicepants I got started with an online lecture series from MIT that introduced some of the ideas
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
I feel like the books that I most treasure are the ones that slotted perfectly into voids within me. They didn't change my shape so much as they gave me substance.
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@Printdevil @kgjengedal @ShaulaEvans @bookstodon where do I get this? I have to have it 🤣🥰
https://www.barbaraheller.org - at any bookseller really.
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@las_lallero @floreana indubbiamente molto limitata. che sia dannosa, più della media della letteratura per ragazzi della fine degli anni 90, mi pare che sia prendere dei dettagli e farli esplodere per cercare di dimostrare che l'autrice fosse una pessima persona già ai tempi (come lo è, indubbiamente, adesso)
solo che nel frattempo si insinua che siano cattive persone che non si sono accorte degli *evidenti* problemi anche tutti quei ragazzi-di-allora¹ che invece hanno letto una storia in cui un ragazzo sfigato con gli occhiali picchiato dai non-genitori e una ragazza secchiona (e quell'altro. sì, c'era anche quell'altro, l'irlandese cattolico con troppi fratelli) affrontano una società adulta messa in pericolo dal razzismo e vincono, che invece mi risulta per l'epoca sia effettivamente stata a) una ventata di aria fresca b) importante per un sacco di persone in situazioni non privilegiate che trovavano rappresentatività (no, non ne ho conosciute di persona, le ho incontrate nei commenti delle fanfiction, quindi abbastanza di sfuggita, ma mi pare che non fossero poche).
¹ per chiarezza: io non ne faccio parte, sono di qualche anno troppo vecchia, la mia letteratura formativa è stata peggio ancora :D
