I mean, I’m a weirdo, but some of my formative fiction includes Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis, and the entirety of the Elfquest graphic novel series by Wendy and Richard Pini
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1) Reading the Bible (wow, love, yay!)
2) Re-reading the Bible (wait, WTF??)
Ashamed_Wheel6930 on
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
CelluloidNightmares on
Noam Chomsky’s Understanding Power
Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Vio_morrigan on
Might come out as a surprise, but Six of Crows duology. All the points of views kinda taught me to not judge people that hard
pdxpmk on
*The Selfish Gene*
Because you might just be a chemical reaction caused by a molecule to be its means of self-replication, with the side effect of a nervous system capable now of propagating self-replicating fragments of language, like this one.
roguescott on
Dante’s Inferno, The Sandman series, and anything by Raymond Carver as a way to find beauty in everything.
ZemStrt14 on
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
IthinkIknowwhothatis on
Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein
Scuttling-Claws on
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
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I mean, I’m a weirdo, but some of my formative fiction includes Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis, and the entirety of the Elfquest graphic novel series by Wendy and Richard Pini
1) Reading the Bible (wow, love, yay!)
2) Re-reading the Bible (wait, WTF??)
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Noam Chomsky’s Understanding Power
Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Might come out as a surprise, but Six of Crows duology. All the points of views kinda taught me to not judge people that hard
*The Selfish Gene*
Because you might just be a chemical reaction caused by a molecule to be its means of self-replication, with the side effect of a nervous system capable now of propagating self-replicating fragments of language, like this one.
Dante’s Inferno, The Sandman series, and anything by Raymond Carver as a way to find beauty in everything.
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Dance of Anger, Harriet Lerner
Pedagogy of the Oppressed:
https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf