The Ancestor’s Tale got me hooked with trying to understand the world. It was the perfect book for me at the time I read it (2008) because my English wasn’t that good yet and I would plausibly have been too overwhelmed with reading The Selfish Gene right away. And it was just way too cool to have this backwards evolutionary journey to go through. Apart from the next item on this list, I can’t remember another book that I was so eager to read once I saw what it’s about. I really wish I could have that feeling again!
Practical Ethics was life-changing for the obvious reasons and also because it got me far enough into ethics to develop the ambition to solve all the questions Singer left open.
Atonement was maybe the fiction book that influenced me the most. I had to re-read it for an English exam and it got me thinking about typical mind fallacy and how people can perceive/interpret the same situation in very different ways.
Fiction books I read when I was younger must have affected me in various ways, but I can’t point to any specific effect with confidence.
The Ancestor’s Tale got me hooked with trying to understand the world. It was the perfect book for me at the time I read it (2008) because my English wasn’t that good yet and I would plausibly have been too overwhelmed with reading The Selfish Gene right away. And it was just way too cool to have this backwards evolutionary journey to go through. Apart from the next item on this list, I can’t remember another book that I was so eager to read once I saw what it’s about. I really wish I could have that feeling again!
Practical Ethics was life-changing for the obvious reasons and also because it got me far enough into ethics to develop the ambition to solve all the questions Singer left open.
Atonement was maybe the fiction book that influenced me the most. I had to re-read it for an English exam and it got me thinking about typical mind fallacy and how people can perceive/interpret the same situation in very different ways.
Fiction books I read when I was younger must have affected me in various ways, but I can’t point to any specific effect with confidence.