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Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier?

Posted by msmash on from the let's-get-this-rolling dept.

Reader joshtops writes: Hey, community. Could you folks please name some books that you wish you had read earlier -- especially because these books presumbably had an impact on your life. The books could be from any genre or year.

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  1. Back to the Future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Grays Sports Almanac 1950-2000... back in 1990

  2. The Bible by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Definitely The Bible. Doesn't matter which version. I was well into my 30s before I started sacrificing chickens after accidentally touching women during menstruation.

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  3. Ulysses - James Joyce by imatter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because if I had started it 20 years ago instead of 15 I might have finished it by now.

  4. The Cat in the Hat by Yaztromo · · Score: 3, Funny

    This book would have changed my world had I read it when I was four. But now that I'm 44, not so much.

    Yaz

  5. Re:Controlling my mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I too like reading watered-down eastern philosophy to make me feel #deep

  6. Dianetics by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dianetics. I had money before I read it.

  7. Re:My recommendation? by GuB-42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have loved to read it but I am a bit tied up at the moment.

  8. Re:Atlas Shrugged by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Funny

    "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

    Seriously, anything by Ayn Rand is the last thing a teenager should read. It's the terrible advice you could get at an impressionable age from that kid that all the adults agree you shouldn't hang out with, dressed up with big words, bound in a respectable-looking book, and coming from an "adult." It's an old man in a lab coat giving you heroin in a pharmacist's bottle.

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  9. Re:Dune by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just finished reading "Second Cousins Once Removed of Dune". Quite a page turner.

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