I read about Heinrich Schliemann and his discovery of Troy when I was young. I can't find the book but it was similar to this:
It sparked my fancy for the classics and led me to attempt the Illiad & Odyssey several times (I was successful with the Odyssey):
later I went on to read adventure enjoying Scott and the Antarctic:
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I think this is the case for myself as well. From there I explored all of Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Niven etc ... but most specifically:
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Although the Dune pentalogy, by Frank Herbert, might almost tie for #5....
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The Dune series has engaged my imagination for decades now:
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I want to give specific mention to another book:
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich I had a passing interest in Russia before I picked this up out of boredom at 9 PM on a Tuesday when I had a class starting at 8 the next morning. I read it in one sitting and literally couldn't put it down.
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This slender tome was impossible to put down. Like Jazz, I was unable to attend to other matters until it had been dealt with. In fact, the comparison of life in the Soviet Gulag to my (at the time) current circumstances made my life easier to take - I was tree planting in the interior of British Columbia. I recommend this to everybody