What books influenced you?

[Strider]

So,I'm curious to know what people here would say are the most influential books in shaping their personal worldview.Here are mine that I can think of off the top of my head:

Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand
The Road to Serfdom-Friedrich Hayek
Reflections on a Ravaged Century-Robert Conquest
The Ethics of Liberty-Murray Rothbard
Any Milton Friedman

 

[EvlJester]

Well i like to to read Stephen King and Anne Rice.

 

[Strider]

I've always been a big fan of Kings.Especially the Dark Tower series.

 

[Fastwalker]

"Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati" by Robert Anton Wilson

"The Walls Came Tumbling Down" also by Robert Anton Wilson

"Behold The Spirit" by Alan Watts

"Tao: The Watercourse Way" by Alan Watts

"Journey To Ixtlan" by Carlos Castaneda

"The Vision" by Tom Brown Jr.

"Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell's translation)

and last but not least, The Bible

I gotta go to work now and make that stuff called money.

 

[maniactickler]

For me it was, the avengers, spider man, the hulk and the fantastic four. hey, i learned alot from comic books. :O

 

[DEV]

The Bible, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Small Gods.

 

[milagros317]

"We the Living" by Ayn Rand
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer
the "Foundation" series of novels by Isaac Asimov

 

[The Sean Man]

"Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy"

The Sean Man

 

[General Zod]

Animal Farm by George Orwell

 

[the_Baron]

mein kampf

the communist manifesto

the lotus sutra

the Koran

the Bible

 

[desdemona]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Ugly American (I forget the author...)
Profiles in Courage by JFK

 

[paul]

stanger in a strange land

 

[Shem the Penman]

Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy. And the Tom Swift Jr. books I had as a kid.

 

[naveltkltr1350]

i like tom clancys work. hes got a tickling reference at the end of one of his book..patriot games maybe..hmm i think so.

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

I have lots of books that I've thoroughly enjoyed. But, as for any that truly INFLUENCED me...(top 3)

the Holy Bible
The Gift Nobody Wants
The Desciple and the Master

Ann

 

[Lazarus]

Comic books were a HUGE part of my growing up, and aslo helped- and is helping- my kids to learn to read....

Also, Steven King, and Kennith Davis "Things you didn't know about the Bible"

 

[crydun]

The Bible

Joshua by Joseph Cirzone

If You Love the Lord by Keith Green

No Compromise: The autobiography of Keith Green

The Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter

 

[TummyDragon]

Not really single books for me...

rather authors and collections of their book have had an accumulative influence...

Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, Robert Asprin, Carl Sagan, Homer, Shakespeare, and I'd have to say the Bible, Apochrapha, Vulgate, every single textbook I ever had in school/college (I was one of those nuts who read textbooks and encyclopedias for enjoyment).

 

[jugner]

The Bible
Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien
Animal Farm- George Orwell
Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court- Mark Twain(Just read, WONDERFUL)
Forever- Judy Blume (HAHAHAHA, soooooooooo kidding)