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Day Five: Ten Books/Movies/Creative works that have changed your life
In approximate chronological order:
I hated it when we read out loud in class; they read so slowly that it bored me. It was in third grade, and I flipped through the reader and found The Speckled Band -- and immediately became a Baker Street Irregular, reading everything and anything I could find about the famous detective
Miss Susie Slagle's by Augusta Tucker was the first historical novel I picked up because it was on my mother's bookshelf when I was about 10 or so I have reread the book several times since then even hunting down the prequel "The Man Miss Susie Loved". Historical novels became a favorite genre.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. It was a Christmas present I got in 8th grade and I read and re-read that paperback until it started to fall apart and my mother threatened to take it away from me. It was my introduction to what has become a life-long addiction to science fiction
when I stayed one summer in Shillington PA with Aunt Ava and Uncle Harry, Dawn and I discovered the high school rehearsals of "Babes in Arms". I never tired of watching those high school kids rehearse and I have loved live theater ever since with a special fondness for musicals.
Another Christmas gift was Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl. That and the book about Easter Island, Aku Aku, were the springboard to the worlds of anthropology, archeology, and history, shaping my studies.
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The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolken, which triggered my addiction to fantasy.
Language in Thought and Action by SI Hayakawa -- the study of semantics, understanding that why what was said and what was heard could vary, had a profound impact on my thoughts about communication
the Knowledge Ecology Network was my first experience with asynchronous communications and the power of online networking, plunging me into what would become the realm of social media as well as virtual reality.
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge was given to me to read by the VP of HR in 1994 and it changed my career path as organizational change and development, knowledge management, team building, all became passions.
Honorable mentions:
Star Trek: the Original Series. I am, and ever have been, a Trekkie.
Dracula by Bram Stoker that I chose to read one dark night when I was home alone -- and have been afraid of, and fascinated by, vampires every since [as long as they don't sparkle that is]
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