Ten formative Books
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heres_luck by way of cesperanza
These are not the best books I ever read, just ones that had a huge influence on me.
1) 666 and 1000 by Salem Kirban. My true introduction to PreMillennialist thought. They shaped my world-view, my ideas of the future, my very life plans. It damaged my relationship with Gpd and left me with a legacy of fear that took almost 2 decades to purge.
2) Julian May's seven book alternate future, especially Jack the Bodiless and Diamond Mask. This gave me a vision beyond that of Kirban. One of a real future, where we were colonizing other planets, achieveing our psi potential, and living as we pleased. one in which religion was important to individuals but no longer crippling to society. It first introduced me to the idea of same-sex marriage.
3) The Ice Cream Cone Coot and other Rare Birds A lovely nonsense book that encouraged me to think beyond the boundaries of everyday life.
4) Stealing Jesus by Bruce Bower. My introduction to the radical idea that Christianity was not a "Fundamentalism or Nothing" type of religion. It gave me the idea that maybe God had given me a brain for a reason.
5) A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. So deeply ingrained in my psyche that when I read the headline "Scientists live on Martian Time" my first thought was "Cool! They have a clock with zodes, xats and tals." I keep expecting the Mars rover to bring up a picture of the yellow and scarlet towers of Helium. Much of my sense of honor was formed by the Martian fighting code, and I learned to use a knife because of it. I still call the moons Thuria and Cluros and can't remember which is Phobos and which is Deimos.
6) Told under the Magic Umbrella. I still won't spread butter or jam to the edge of my bread because of this book.
7) Magic by Daniel Cohen. Taught me everything I know about sympathetic and ritual magic. A most inappropriate book for an elementary library.
8) Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller. This is not, contrary to my 12 year old opinion, a sex manual. it should not be read as such. It will warp one's ideas of the interactions between men and women beyond repair if taken as such.
9) Man, Myth and Magic. A wildly inaccurate series of books by Time Life. Gorgeous, introduced me to a lot of concepts I no business knowing about in my teens, and fed a lot of fantasies.
10) My home-ec text in 7th grade. Taught me most of what I know about cooking, buying food, sewing, selecting fabric, embroidery and other domestic arts.
heres_luck by way of cesperanzaThese are not the best books I ever read, just ones that had a huge influence on me.
1) 666 and 1000 by Salem Kirban. My true introduction to PreMillennialist thought. They shaped my world-view, my ideas of the future, my very life plans. It damaged my relationship with Gpd and left me with a legacy of fear that took almost 2 decades to purge.
2) Julian May's seven book alternate future, especially Jack the Bodiless and Diamond Mask. This gave me a vision beyond that of Kirban. One of a real future, where we were colonizing other planets, achieveing our psi potential, and living as we pleased. one in which religion was important to individuals but no longer crippling to society. It first introduced me to the idea of same-sex marriage.
3) The Ice Cream Cone Coot and other Rare Birds A lovely nonsense book that encouraged me to think beyond the boundaries of everyday life.
4) Stealing Jesus by Bruce Bower. My introduction to the radical idea that Christianity was not a "Fundamentalism or Nothing" type of religion. It gave me the idea that maybe God had given me a brain for a reason.
5) A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. So deeply ingrained in my psyche that when I read the headline "Scientists live on Martian Time" my first thought was "Cool! They have a clock with zodes, xats and tals." I keep expecting the Mars rover to bring up a picture of the yellow and scarlet towers of Helium. Much of my sense of honor was formed by the Martian fighting code, and I learned to use a knife because of it. I still call the moons Thuria and Cluros and can't remember which is Phobos and which is Deimos.
6) Told under the Magic Umbrella. I still won't spread butter or jam to the edge of my bread because of this book.
7) Magic by Daniel Cohen. Taught me everything I know about sympathetic and ritual magic. A most inappropriate book for an elementary library.
8) Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller. This is not, contrary to my 12 year old opinion, a sex manual. it should not be read as such. It will warp one's ideas of the interactions between men and women beyond repair if taken as such.
9) Man, Myth and Magic. A wildly inaccurate series of books by Time Life. Gorgeous, introduced me to a lot of concepts I no business knowing about in my teens, and fed a lot of fantasies.
10) My home-ec text in 7th grade. Taught me most of what I know about cooking, buying food, sewing, selecting fabric, embroidery and other domestic arts.
