[tptacek]

As actual books, Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, which a BBS friend of mine gave me when he squatted for a few days in my parent's garage, and Eduardo Galleano's Memory of Fire trilogy, a narrative literary history of Latin America, which the Jesuits made me read. I'd still recommend both today. On the other hand, there's the BBS tfile "Anarchist's Cookbook" (there are dozens of different compilations) probably had a more profound influence on my career than anything else I've ever read, and is what shifted me out of computer games and into the work I do now, when I was in sophomore year of high school. I'm lucky I didn't blow a finger off, though.

[gadders]

Just an FYI re the Anarchist's Cookbook before people start googling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchist_Cookbook#United_...

[tl;dr; You can get arrested in the UK for owning it]

[johnthescott]

recently i was asked to read RFR. Alinsky writes well.