Has a story ever moved you in a profound, perhaps life-changing way?I almost feel like I was robbed of something in my childhood, for not having read this when I was much younger. My introduction to Arthur C. Clarke started with 2001 in high school an

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Anonymous 09/28/15 (Mon) 12:07:27 No.6748

Has a story ever moved you in a profound, perhaps life-changing way?

I almost feel like I was robbed of something in my childhood, for not having read this when I was much younger. My introduction to Arthur C. Clarke started with 2001 in high school and I had read maybe 20 of his books over the years.

But this story right here. It is a travesty that I never learned about it and finally read it until I was 26. It inspired me even then and I feel like it could have motivated my drive to be a scientist and push myself academically all the more powerful.

Anonymous 09/28/15 (Mon) 13:34:31 No.6752

there are a lot of books that are a "before and after" in my life.

these

http://www.amazon.com/Out-Of-America-Confronts-Africa/dp/0465001882

http://www.amazon.com/My-Traitors-Heart-African-Conscience/dp/0802136842

won't allow me to see africans in the same way i used to ever again.

other than that, there's a certain amount of books that are stayed with me and on me like tattoos.

you know the feel, when someone describes you and your life better than you could, right?

Anonymous 09/28/15 (Mon) 23:05:02 No.6768

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It might have been a variety of other factors in addition, but I chiefly credit War & Peace with bringing me out of depression in high school and making me a far more empathetic person.