If you could give a book to your younger self, what would it be?

[Odyne]

Stolen form another forum, but shh.

If you were to meet your younger self and give them a book to read, what would that book be?

I would give my younger self The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

What about you?

 

[DrShephard]

Slaughterhouse-Five. Absolutely. Poo-tee-weet?

 

[jyrffw54]

To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee

 

[the]

Dress for Success by Robert T Malloy.

 

[bagelriffic]

flowers for algernon - daniel keyes

 

[just me]

I would insist on an autograph.

 

[Gaze]

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

 

[TinyBubbles]

history book

 

[DrShephard]

That reminds me April. I'd take a page from Back to the Future Part 2 and give Little Shephard a 2010 Sports Almanac.

 

[Jonathan]

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis.

 

[Matariki]

The Action Bible - Sergio Cariello

 

[Sloe Djinn]

Maybe Bukowski's Ham on Rye.

 

[starshine]

Anthem by Ayn Rand <3

 

[Free Mind]

Every book that is worth reading for increasing knowledge that is useful for personal development. Yeah...

 

[Praefect]

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. It helped me to finally unlock my father and understand him.

 

[Capt Charisma]

That stupid little shiy would probably kick me in the balls of i gave him anything...

 

[invisible]

language learning tapes.

 

[Peppermint]

Psychological Types by C.G.Jung

 

[invisible]

i kind of cheated on my answer. it wasn't a real answer.
probably the metamorphoses. the more i think about it the more i enjoy it.

 

[invisible]

the best thing i got hold of as a younger person was ursula le guin's earthsea books. they really inspired me to read. they still hold up for me as an adult. i always remember them as the first real books i read.