CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@troodon Thank you for this reply. My heart is glowing at your connection with this book.

@MamaLake This sounds like an amazing book!

@troodon Bravo to 4th grade you for that wisdom and awareness!

@satsuma @alicemcalicepants I used to know people in historical swordsmanship circles! I wonder if you've ever come across Brad Waller?

@alicemcalicepants Wow! That's amazing, Alice.

I find it inspiring and terrifying in equal measure to consider the random events that can go on to shape a life.

@satsuma @alicemcalicepants That is amazing, Neil. Bravo!

@uc @bookstodon It was one of my dad's favourite books! I read his old copy when I was in high school. I loved it then but I'm sure would read it different now (not worse, just very differently).

@kgjengedal @bookstodon I believe that earns you an honorary Canadian passport!

(I can say that: I'm Canadian.)

@urlyman @falcennial

@chestas What a beautiful and circuitous route to a good place!

I read a lot of Heller and Vonnegut (and other men traumatized by war) around the same age. Heller stayed with me, too. (Most of them did.)

@falcennial I'm with you. I deeply love this books. And I came across them at exactly the right moment for me.

@gemsmoke You are *definitely* on the right path with your work. xo

@mouseless How did you first come across the book?

@feonixrift That sounds absolutely fascinating!

*You're all such fascinating people -- I'm curious about how you got to be who you ar, hence this particular question. xo

What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?

Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.

@bookstodon

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@gleick I remember when Amazon and Chapters launched, and one of the founders (I'm forgetting which) talked openly about how the publishing industry and the system of book store returns ran more or less on an honour system and was ripe for exploitation.

They were never good guys.