I don’t think any book has caused the direction of my life to suddenly turn on a heel. I have found the influence of reading to be slow and incremental. The mo

I don’t think any book has caused the direction of my life to suddenly turn on a heel. I have found the influence of reading to be slow and incremental. The most pivotal that springs to mind is The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, read as an early teen. I think this is what fully opened my eyes to the world of nerdishness out of which I have built a career and which has shaped my interests.