some of the books that did something to my brain

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Not favorites, because I don't understand the concept anymore.

Just a bunch of books.

Cement by Gladkov

Gorky's Autobiography

The Land of Schvambrania by Lev Kassil

Cyteen by C. J. CHerryh

Double Star by Heinlein

The Idiot by Dostoevsky

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Jakobowski and the Colonel by Franz Werfel

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol ("Charles Dodgson" was what came to mind first!)

a book which I have not been able to locate since about the Weaver's Darling which was probably an extended allegory but it haunted me because "Ninety-nine and Ninety" was one of my favorite songs

Everything by E. Nesbit

Once on a Time by A. A. Milne

the Willy Ley science books

The Poem Book of the Gael

The Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle

the Roger Lancelyn Green retellings of Robin Hood and KIng Arthur

He Went with Marco Polo

These oversize, garishly illustrated children's biographies -- The Quest of Isaac Newton and The Quest of Galileo which I think never mentioned Newton's religon or his madness

The White Pony collection of Chinese poems translated by Arthur Waley

A collection of Yegveni Yefremov's science fiction stories

How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher

Half Magic by Edward Eager

a collection of Federico Garcia Lorca poems given to me by my brother when I was twelve

Dangerous Thoughts, a collection of newspaper columns by Mike Quinn

-- and that's enough for now. Just a few of the books that did something to my brain. All but the Bronte and the Cherry I read before I was 18.

Comments

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

Double Star is my favorite Heinlein.

On sf that did stuff to my brain -- I'd have to list Reefs of Space.