- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 16•11 months 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
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English10•11 months ago
Also my younger self didn’t read much… So all that information would be ignored.
- violetraven ( @violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 15•11 months ago
Choose Your Own Adventure books
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 7•11 months ago
Though to actually be a forewarning of any kind, it would have to be a pretty linear book about bad decisions
- atlasraven31 ( @atlasraven31@lemm.ee ) 4•11 months ago
Yup, those are the paths I chose!
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 5•11 months ago
Me too, but every bad decision has a silver lining. Fine, you didn’t date a supermodel and get that 7-figure salary, but you’re also not dating someone who is just dating you for money.
- atlasraven31 ( @atlasraven31@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
Thanks for the pick me up.
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English1•11 months ago
Those were banging
- bestusername ( @bestusername@aussie.zone ) 12•11 months ago
Lotto numbers in whatever format was required.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 13•11 months ago
Are these… coordinates? I must find a boat
- GrappleHat ( @GrappleHat@lemmy.ml ) English4•11 months ago
Are these… a lock combo? I must find a safe!
- gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English11•11 months ago
The hitchhikers guide to buying Apple stock
- 👍Maximum Derek👍 ( @Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•11 months 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
- Bldck ( @Bldck@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months ago
Gosh. I hadn’t thought about Indian in the cupboard in years
- gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English1•11 months ago
Ikr? I read those back in the 80s…
- root ( @root@aussie.zone ) English5•11 months ago
1984
- Omnissiah ( @omnissiah@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 2•11 months ago
And brave new world. Reality is a mix of both depending on where you start, are and go
- Brad ( @Brad@beehaw.org ) 5•11 months 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.
- JaymesRS ( @JaymesRS@literature.cafe ) English4•11 months ago
I’d rewrite It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
- SwingingTheLamp ( @SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ) English1•11 months ago
Even if I read the book How It Is Going to Happen Here, I doubt that I could have done much about it.
- FunkyMonk ( @FunkyMonk@kbin.social ) 3•11 months 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 ( @CooperHawkes@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months 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 ( @018118055@sopuli.xyz ) 1•11 months ago
I would send “Stand on Zanzibar” which was published before I was born and still predicted much of the past few decades