#7books — Public Fediverse posts
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Here is my #GetToKnowMe list for #7books. These items are my favorites because they were entertaining, I connected with them emotionally, and/or they helped me to better know myself.
— The Phantom Tollbooth #NortonJuster
— The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy #DouglasAdams
— The Gods of Jade And Shadow #SylviaMorenoGarcia
— Pattern Recognition #WilliamGibson
— Neverwhere #NeilGaiman
— Some Men Are Lookers #EthanMorden
— Bloom County Babylon #BerkeBreathed -
Looks like we're doing #7Books that made us who we are. I don't know if they *made* me, but:
The Illuminatus Trilogy, #RobertAntonWilson & #RobertShea
Cannery Row, #JohnSteinbeck
Dharma Bums, #JackKerouac
Pattern Recognition, #WiliamGibson
Pentimento, #LillianHellman
The Big Sleep, #RaymondChandler
A Prayer for Owen Meany, #JohnIrving
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#7books that made a difference to me in no particular order.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by #DouglasAdams
Future Shock by #AlvinToffler
Understanding Media by #MarshallMcLuhan
Understanding Comics by #ScottMcCloud
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by #LewisCarroll
The World Book Encyclopedia (some early 1970s edition) by various
Webcomics by #SeanKleefeld (for obviously very different reasons than anything else!)