If you had the ability to transmit information to your past self, but exclusively through fictional novels, which ones would you select?
If you had the ability to transmit information to your past self, but exclusively through fictional novels, which ones would you select?
The hitchhikers guide to buying Apple stock
Hang on, how would this work? Would my younger self see highlighted quotes of importance? Or immediately understand the message through the story morals? If my younger self is expected to understand information about my future without any kind of supernatural aid, it would be pointless
Also my younger self didn't read much... So all that information would be ignored.
Lotto numbers in whatever format was required.
Are these.. coordinates? I must find a boat
Are these... a lock combo? I must find a safe!
Depends on what age me I needed to transmit to. Grade school: The Castle in the Attic or Indian in the Cupboard series. Middle school: Steven King and Tolken. High School: Everything Douglas Adams. College: I only read textbooks
Gosh. I hadn’t thought about Indian in the cupboard in years
Ikr? I read those back in the 80s…
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Our conscience is what makes us human and divine.
I read that book and ended feeling I'm broken as a human.
The protagonist feels ashamed of being alive and trying to fend for himself, by eliminating objectively harmful individuals.
1984
And brave new world. Reality is a mix of both depending on where you start, are and go
I'd be fucked because I never really read books as a kid, either for entertainment or even when they were assigned as school work.
Now, if I could do that with video games or Saturday morning cartoons, I'd be good.
Goosebumps, read a bunch of those would be able to fill a few of those 100 pages with anything a time savy mad scientist would want me to send to little me.
I’d rewrite It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
Even if I read the book How It Is Going to Happen Here, I doubt that I could have done much about it.
If it needs to be my high school years pretty much anything Stephen King. I remember reading “The Stand” and “It” in high school so those would be my best bet.
Leaning towards “It”. When it gets to THAT part in the caves with the kids I’ll say something like:
“Trust me, what I have to say will be less traumatic than what Mr. King spat out in some weird cocaine high.. listen..”
Brave New World
I mean, it was already prophetic. Are you saying I get to add more details to the book? Cool. Artistic liberties.
I would send "Stand on Zanzibar" which was published before I was born and still predicted much of the past few decades
The Ash Family by Molly Dektar. But I probably still would have found a way to rationalize that I wasn't in a cult.