If you could go back in time and give younger you one book, what would it be? -

[BerriesArnold]

What is one book that you have read that made you go, "Damn! I wish I could have read this when I was younger!".

If you could travel back in time and give one book to your younger self to read and make them less :autism:, what would it be? And what advantage do you think that would have given current you today?

 

[The Fool]

 

[Neil]

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Damn, I expected the first reply to be Mein Kampf, but I can't say I'm disappointed by this.

 

[The Fool]

Damn, I expected the first reply to be Mein Kampf, but I can't say I'm disappointed by this.

I actually regret not posting the Quran instead.

 

[Some JERK]

Spoiler

... seriously though, I'd probably make myself read Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan. Younger me would definitely have benefited from the main lesson of that book, which is "Never ever give up no matter what, even if it looks like you're screwed... you never know."

 

[Xetzyr]

I would send them my own biography of course.

Being able to rewrite reality... that's the power of God

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

What else would it be?

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

Atlas Shrugged.

 

[gobbogobb]

That book with the winners of all the sports games from Back to the Future Part 2. I'd be so fucking rich

 

[IV 445]

Fight Club.

 

[Bassomatic]

Honestly, I don't think if a young me read the books that have had a large influence on me I'd be able to grasp how or why as a kid.

Books that I wish I had as a kid that would help, either Mediations by Marcus Arlius. I think i'd be able to handle stress, better as a kid as well as my temper and all those things that hit all us teens and kids. Or Clausvitz art of war.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Fuck if I know. My guess is it'd be Jurassic Park since itty-bitty mini-me loved the film, but reading the actual book would've probably helped me better understand why it is dinosaurs need to stay dead and also maybe helped me get more into books like it. Or maybe it could've pushed me into striving for the paleontology field so I could make actual credentials/money with that autistic obsession with dinosaurs. Or at least to go out and see the world and therefore keep me from being corrupted by the Internet. I dunno what it'd do.

Think it's mostly so I could have at least said with confidence by now that I did read it because I'm a lazy fuckwad who keeps forgetting to go get a copy every time I head to a bookstore.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

How to Win Friends And Influence People so I could have started a cult at a young age and by this time I'd be rolling in all the free pussy and drugs I'd ever want.

 

[MW 002]

The Last Unicorn because kid me had no idea that a book of it existed.

Oh and Jorge Joestar because 36 Kars on Mars.

 

[Fred Durst]

A book that has all the winning lottery numbers.

 

[PantsFreeZone]

Siege by James Mason.

 

[nanny911]

My diary desu

 

[Karl der Grosse]

Art of the Deal

 

[DumbDosh]

Replay by Ken Grimwood probably, it would've taught me earlier to just let what could've been go and that the only thing that matters is striving for the best that we can do and be.


“The only thing that mattered was that the quarter century or so he had remaining would be his life, to live out as he chose and in his own best interests. Nothing took precedence over that: not work, not friendships, not relationships with women. Those were all components of his life, and valuable ones, but they did not define it or control it. That was up to him, and him alone.”
― Ken Grimwood

 

[RG 448]

If I could get that to eight-year-old me I’d be sitting pretty.