Since age eight or nine, I have read non-fiction almost exclusively, beginning with presidential biographies.
I believe the whole range og 19th century Russian literature affected me deeply.
I have closde to 10,000 books, covering all kinds of things in Jewish studies.
I look to my parents and rebbeim as my primary infulences. And I think that's how it should be.
As a teen, I found essays by people like William F. Buckley Jr. and Lewis Thomas enthralling.
What books would you recommend to someone seeking intellectual ammunition for his belief in 1) the existence of G-d? and 2) the divinity of the Bible?
I walked into his class thinking I knew how to write, and for our first essay he told us that two-run on sentences was grounds for immediate failure.
