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ecib  ·  4398 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shoulders of Giants

I remember reading A Brief History of Time when I was 13 years old. Before then I dined on fantasy fare involving swords, magic, wizards, dragons, and the like. So it fit right in, but was cooler, because it was real. It blew my young mind away like no other book has since, or could ever hope to again probably. Besides the quality of the content, it came into a certain time in my life and shattered a paradigm. Pretty much cemented it on a pedestal of influence.