Reply #52: What a question, from Robinson Crusoe to I don't know what. [View All]

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First books I read were Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss Family Robinson.

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Then Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun."

Then Catch 22, the influence of which is stronger than anything else.

All of Vonnegut, then Voltaire, the psuedo-intellectual canon, late Twain, light reading, like potato chips.

The World According to Garp and everything that guy wrote.

Then poetry, Yeats, Byron, Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Dowson, And finally and still, Pablo Neruda.

A History of God

Then theology, mostly exegesis textbooks and the new testament.