Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was hugely influential on me when I was younger because of the lessons it has to teach about self and identity.
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Godel, Escher and Bach by Douglas Hofstadter is one of the most deeply mesmerizing and important books on the links between abstraction and consciousness and how we know ourselves.
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Stephen King's On Writing is the best thing anyone has ever written on... well, on writing.
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Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' was what turned me from an apathetic employee into a firebrand union activist because it showed how hard won our freedoms really were.
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I'm sure there are others, but those are what I have off the top of my head. :-)
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Only even heard of (and read) one of those! Thanks. Plenty to be getting on with. (Twitter needs a FB-style way to 'save' threads imo so I can refer back to this.)
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Which one have you read? And do you have any you'd recommend yourself?
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Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Honestly, other than The Little Prince, I don't know of any books I'd really recommend to everyone. I did really love 'Stay Alive, My Son' - wonderful tale of struggle and survival in Khmer Rouge period.
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I also love 'Join Me' and 'Yes Man' by Danny Wallace. I'd like to read more of his stuff. And poetry by Machi Tawara. That's all I can think of right now, except for books that are specifically about games/animation/programming.
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@avantgame's Reality is Broken is really cool and kinda inspiring, even if you're not super into games.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
to close the loop, I also am a huge @DerrenBrown fan of his books and all of his amazing live work
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