re: Name Your Top 10 Most Influential Books

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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Yeah, that's one of mine. I read it when I was pretty young and Heinlein's take on politics really hit home. Much more influential to me than Atlas Shrugged which I read when older.

I'll add:

Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut and I differ a lot politically but we do overlap some and he might be the most influential author in my thinking, certainly helping to reinforce my opinion of mankind overall.

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace: A very funny, very tragic book that is extremely insightful.

Illuminatus - Shea and Wilson: Very strange book that helped me to look at EVERYTHING with skepticism and think for myself. A lot of fun too.

Parliament of Whores - PJ O'Rourke.

Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins.

Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein again.

Catch 22.

Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman fascinates me.