I've always been a bookworm - when I started getting headaches around the age of 7 or 8, doctors used to tell my mom that I was probably reading too much...

I went on to study literature and philosophy and kept on devouring books. When I was in college, my wildest dream was to have a room built into the library... I read everything I could put my hands on - from the Tao te Ching  to the ramblings of Aleister Crowley and everything in between.

Yet, if not for the work of Nietzsche, the single most important book in my life is this one*. 





Which had stayed in a box somewhere back in Quebec. 


But my wife just bought a new copy for me. :))


No moobs in here for at least another 15-20 years...


*Sweetwater Catalog excluded, obviously...

Mine was sheet music..I still have many of those originals. I guess I
was a sheetmusicworm.




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Stalone.  Nietzsche. 

When you think about it, they're practically the same guy.

I loved Nietzsche's work in Stop, or my Mom will Shoot!

Apparently eating soy gives you moobs...Stallone regimen or no Stallone regimen....

I might go for the second-most influential book of all time (after the various incarnations of the Bible):

Book ?......yeah...this one.

spacey


Book ?......yeah...this one.

I do hope John doesn't consider Yoko one of his scores...

sharke


Apparently eating soy gives you moobs...Stallone regimen or no Stallone regimen....

Stallone is a bigger advocate of the mediterranean type of diet than of soy, IIRC. And even then, one of the things I dug when I read this book is that it doesn't fall into such a systematic pattern. 


I've read somewhere that a guy had issues w/ soy, but he was drinking like 2 gallons of soy milk every day. Had he be drinking as much regular milk he'd had gotten kidney stones or other issues. Too much of anything, obviously.


I do eat soy every now and then. I like the taste of soy milk, though I rarely buy any. I also like certain tofu-based asian meals or to toss some in my salads.  


I see lots of guys my age and older w/ moobs out there - tofu may be responsible for a big 1 or 2 % of that. Lack of exercise and a crappy diet are a much more common cause. 

craigb


I might go for the second-most influential book of all time (after the various incarnations of the Bible):

I never heard of this one before it was mentioned on South Park - where it caused officer Barbrady to quit reading forever.

Catch 22.