• Mothra@mander.xyz
    13·
    2 years ago

    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

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    2 years ago

    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

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Our conscience is what makes us human and divine.

    • qyron@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Fuck information. I would send myself the last book of A Song of Ice and Fire.

  • FunkyMonk@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • CooperHawkes@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 years ago

    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…”

  • 018118055@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    2 years ago

    I would send “Stand on Zanzibar” which was published before I was born and still predicted much of the past few decades

  • Brad@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Brave New World

    I mean, it was already prophetic. Are you saying I get to add more details to the book? Cool. Artistic liberties.