[1]ken_11_smallerEnder's Game. Read it in the library stacks
   when it was in the "New Book" section and I was about 14 yrs
   old.Unschooling / Summerhill / Why Johnny Can't Read are other
   books I read in that time frame.
   *
   Also:
   https://books.google.com/books?id=pfMKrY3VvigC&printsec=frontcover&dq=kinsey+study+book&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiehI7plK3KAhXDMyYKHSQSANkQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=kinsey%20study%20book&f=false
   - I secretly carried that book over to a cubicle and read all
   about the Kinsey studies, at least the male side 'cause the
   crappy sex ed books my mom tossed at me wasn't enough - same age
   - about 14 - voracious reader at the time.
   ==
   http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Unleashing-Forces-Within-Insights/dp/0312205198
   Went through an Osho phase in 2001/2002 and a bunch of his
   books. Refreshing idgaf attitude towards life. It was nice.
   =
   https://books.google.com/books?id=8ViqQ6qYSjIC&pg=PA109&dq=Philokalia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK2KXAr7nKAhVFKCYKHSviAcMQ6AEIRTAE#v=onepage&q=Philokalia&f=false
   When i was going through my Eastern Orthodox Christian phase,
   the Philokalia was JUST translated into English, and I'd
   anxiously await each volume as the translation hit Barnes &
   Noble. My copies are all full of notes. Good Desert psychology
   there,with or without the religious context.
   ==
   * Hm, mush those books together (all the ones on the thread I
   mentioned), and you can probably create some AI version of "me"
   that resembled me.
   ==
   *OH - very transformational book for me: I started with computer
   programming in the early 1980s - age of 11+ That book right
   there. Taught me algorithms, boolean logic, all hands-on. I even
   went through my pre-alegra/algebra/geometry/trig/calc classes
   mentally translating the terse mathematical language into
   pseudo-BASIC code in my mind in order to make sense of it.I
   suppose that little book there was pretty transformational come
   to think of it.
   ==
   https://books.google.com/books?id=TRMepagkRcYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
   This book was cool when I was 12/13. Loved imaging ancient
   aliens and stuff. Put it aside. 10 years later, X-Files came out
   and I was like, "Oh come on, really?"
   ==
   *Those were always on my "need-to-read-this" list, but I found
   myself reading L. Sprague de Camp from a book I got at a garage
   sale, and liked that style a little better. I think I went
   through a bunch of Ray Bradbury stuff in the softer sci-fi dept.
   ==
   [2]Best_of_de_Camp
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   Well, I'm thinking "loose approximation" - more in the
   accuracy-enough dept rather than the precision dept. Things that
   would be "not disagreeable".
   == Stop. Listen.
   ==
   *Consider stopping and listening or not.
   ==
   *You ask for less verbage. I attempted
   ==

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