Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 16•8 months agoHang 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•8 months agoAlso my younger self didn’t read much… So all that information would be ignored.
violetraven ( @violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 15•8 months agoChoose Your Own Adventure books
tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 7•8 months agoThough 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•8 months agoYup, those are the paths I chose!
tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 5•8 months agoMe 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•8 months agoThanks for the pick me up.
Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English1•8 months agoThose were banging
bestusername ( @bestusername@aussie.zone ) 12•8 months agoLotto numbers in whatever format was required.
tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 13•8 months agoAre these… coordinates? I must find a boat
GrappleHat ( @GrappleHat@lemmy.ml ) English4•8 months agoAre these… a lock combo? I must find a safe!
gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English11•8 months agoThe hitchhikers guide to buying Apple stock
👍Maximum Derek👍 ( @Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•8 months agoDepends 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•8 months agoGosh. I hadn’t thought about Indian in the cupboard in years
gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English1•8 months agoIkr? I read those back in the 80s…
root ( @root@aussie.zone ) English5•8 months ago1984
Omnissiah ( @omnissiah@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 2•8 months agoAnd brave new world. Reality is a mix of both depending on where you start, are and go
Brad ( @Brad@beehaw.org ) 5•8 months agoI’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•8 months agoI’d rewrite It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
SwingingTheLamp ( @SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ) English1•8 months agoEven 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•8 months agoGoosebumps, 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•8 months agoIf 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•8 months agoI would send “Stand on Zanzibar” which was published before I was born and still predicted much of the past few decades