Strange books that have influenced you

[lostclause]

After reading 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' I found myself becoming almost technophobic. A good but paranoid book that made me wary of any robot that made the news for months afterwards. Fortunately I'm over that now.
So what odd books have caused you to think or act strangely?

 

[Agent Larkin]

Sun Tzu's the art of war. Im still mentally preparing battles in my head.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

The Zombie Survival Guide. You start to read it and take it as a joke but by about page 30 you really want to go outside and buy a machete. Just to be safe.

I don't think I've met anyone who'd read it and not made a zombie survival plan.

 

[lostclause]

The Zombie Survival Guide. You start to read it and take it as a joke but by about page 30 you really want to go outside and buy a machete. Just to be safe.

I don't think I've met anyone who'd read it and not made a zombie survival plan.

Someone brought that up before. That's what reminded me of how to survive a robot uprising and hence this thread. Must try and get a copy.

 

[Golden Gryphon]

I can't think of any books that have changed how I thought but I do tend to pick up the speech patterns of characters in whatever book I'm reading at the moment. Since I usually read fantasy I can occasionally sound very odd.

 

[Vrex360]

The Zen of Zombie
The guide for better living through the undead.

Best life changing guide.... ever.

 

[Quoth]

All of Terry Pratchett, Robert Ranking and Douglas Adams stories opened my mind to the possiblities of making money from having a disturbed imagination underlined with an ascerbic British wit.

 

[Pseudonym2]

Only You Can Save Mankind, Cat's Cradle and Good Omens.

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand."

 

[MrDeano89]

Mine Kampf.... just kidding

 

[New Troll]

Bible. Doesn't get much stranger or influential.

 

[Sevre]

You know ever since I started reading through the works of Lovecraft in the dark I've been coming up with my own theories for your my own demise.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Gaiman and Pratchett, with a little Douglass Adams sprinkled on the side, with a side order of Orson Scott Card, with a tall glass of L. Frank Baum to wash it all down.

 

[Sh4dowSpec]

The Anarchist's Cookbook. There are so many household items that I can never look at the same way again.

 

[TankCopter]

Strangled Silence, by Oisin McGann. Made me paranoid and distrustful of authority

 

[Sol_HSA]

Dune.

What a waste of water.

 

[Samsquamsh]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Strange as they come and a fascinating study of the art of critique and the blurring of lines between fiction and reality. Recommended.

 

[Woem]

- Tao Te Ching
- Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings
- Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
- Het boek van Bod Pa
- The Gunnm series (manga)

 

[notsosavagemessiah]

Anthem By Ayn Rand

Death to collectivism!

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

Basic Eight by Daniel Handler.
Never trust the media especially Oprah.

 

[systhicsfg]

A Clockwork Orange. I talk in a bit of a malenky manner upon occasion o my brothers.