Shaughnn asked Paul Boulet:

As a young adult reader, which authors or titles left an impression on you which you can recognize influencing your adult reading and/or writing?

Paul Boulet I’ll keep it short as I could go on & on. I didn’t really lean to love reading until junior high but when I did I dove in full-throttle; novels, short stories, personal letters, everything. I have a very vivid memory of finding a book of Native American lore at a yard sale and devouring every story. I still love everything related to myth across the landscape of ancient & modern religion. My father influenced me to read sci-fi classics; Asimov, Clarke, Niven, Heinlein but it really culminated when I started reading anything and everything written by Frank Herbert. Of course, Dune is the novel series that immediately comes to mind but the Worship and Consentiency novels are also great reading. Yet, while at university, my appetite for literature evolved moving me toward Orwell, Vonnegut, Faulkner and on & on. Now it’s hard to tell as all this has all merged together internally. Is that the answer you were looking for? And, thanks for asking.

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