So many... In different ways, but the one that changed me the most profoundly was "The mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
I read it as a depressed 15yr old, in a time when I read everything I could get my hands on. From cover to cover. Often doing nothing else but going to the bathroom, eating and sleeping from exhaustion once I started a book until it was finished.
This book was so bad that I gave myself rules so that I wouldn't waste another 900 pages of reading on something so utterly uninteresting.
It made me suspicious of text and stories in a way that nothing else has.
I'm still grateful for having read it, it did teach me something.
The "Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide" got me hooked on computers. Without that book I my life surely would be very different.
So many... In different ways, but the one that changed me the most profoundly was "The mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
I read it as a depressed 15yr old, in a time when I read everything I could get my hands on. From cover to cover. Often doing nothing else but going to the bathroom, eating and sleeping from exhaustion once I started a book until it was finished.
This book was so bad that I gave myself rules so that I wouldn't waste another 900 pages of reading on something so utterly uninteresting.
It made me suspicious of text and stories in a way that nothing else has.
I'm still grateful for having read it, it did teach me something.
Thank you for reminding me <3
What are the rules? What did it teach you?
They have evolved to the general idea that it is always OK to just walk away :)
They started as: Books have to something interesting every 50 pages. And with interesting meaning something I want to know more about. Pretty low bar!