Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Our conscience is what makes us human and divine.
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.
Choose Your Own Adventure books
Those were banging
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
Also my younger self didn’t read much… So all that information would be ignored.
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 z Token. High School: Everything Douglas Adams. College: I only read textbooks
Lotto numbers in whatever format was required.
I’d rewrite It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis.
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…”
Fuck information. I would send myself the last book of A Song of Ice and Fire.
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.
