[TriLUG] Books that inspired us

[Mike Perry via TriLUG]

I feel like I have a lot. I read so much growing up.

(Just a list, not a ranking)

1. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Definitely one of my favorite cyber punk books of all time. If I could be
Hiro Protagonist, I think I would.

2. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
I read this in 8th grade, and it changed me as a reader. Prior to that I
was reading kid fiction and it opened my eyes to a wider world of books.

3. Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Does anything even need to be said?

4. The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock
I have a love and fascination of anti-heroes. The Elric Saga is great. If
you haven't read it, I highly, highly suggest it.

5. Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The greatest detective in history. Who doesn't love Sherlock? Such
interesting stories and there were so many.

Now I need to re-read these as it has been too long.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Matt Whitlow via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> The Last Defender of Camelot - a collection of short stories by Roger
> Zelazny. The original book not the one from 2002
> The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley - a fantasy classic that I
> worked my way through 5 times in Junior High and several
>     times since
> The Nightside - a series by Simon R. Green - A series I still read over and
> over, currently working my way through the audiobooks for a
>     change.
> Armor by John Steakley - This one I didn't pick up until College suggested
> by a friend who worked at a bookstore.
> The Art of War by Sun Tzu - A high school favorite.
> The Last Rune - a series by Mark Anthony only 5 books but a series that
> helped me understand how complicated a person can
>     feel towards another.
>
>
> Most of my tastes were and still are Fantasy and Science Fiction(Hard and
> Soft) and these were the books that were most influential in my development
> as a person, there are many more books I can list but these are ones that I
> re-read at least once per year.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 08:54:22AM -0400, Triangle Linux Users Group
> > discussion list wrote:
> > >
> > > "The 26 Letters," by Oscar Ogg!
> > >
> > > "The Art of Computer Programming," by Donald Knuth!
> >
> > And I almost forgot one that has been a BIG influence in my life:
> >
> > "Computer Lib/Dream Machines," the two sides of a fascinating book by
> > Theodor Holm Nelson, who, in the early 1960's, was working at Brown
> > University on "Hypertext" and the Xanadu project, whose concepts have
> > been very much simplified and, perhaps, bowdlerized, for today's web.
> >
> > Ted's concepts involved bi-directional linking, annotations as part of
> > the document but separate, with separate authors, and some other such
> > radical ideas.
> >
> >
> > "Everything is deeply intertwingled."  Ted Nelson, *Computer Lib/Dream
> > Machines*, 1974.
> >
> >
> >
> > B
> >
> >
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