Thread: Books that have influenced your life?

Generations by Strauss and Howe

They prove that these trying times we are living have all been lived in before and there is a spring to be had just after the winter we are in.

ampaidang

Funnily, when I was a kid it was the Dune series (the 5 books by the first author). Yeah I'm strange.
I don't believe I understood much of it however, because I tried to read it last year and gave up on the garbage.

I loved the first Dune, one of my favourite reading experiences growing up, but I found the subsequent novels went downhill in a hurry. Gets weirder and weirder and more incomprehensible. By the final one I was confused; there's all these clones and sex-slaves running around, and some kind of unknown evil force crossing the galaxy. The first one really is a classic though, can't get much more epic in terms of scale and imagination.

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells. I was supportive of medical animal experimentation before I read that book, now I am staunchly against it. Made me an animal lover ever since!