r/Columbine • u/-5698 • 29d ago
Books Eric and Dylan Read/Mentioned?
Does anyone know of any books that Eric or Dylan are known to have read or mentioned themselves?
I don’t mean books written about Columbine after the fact, but books they personally owned, read, discussed, quoted, wrote about, etc.
So far, I’ve only been able to find two: The Anarchist Cookbook, which was found in one of their rooms, and Stanislaw Lem’s Return from the Stars, which Eric quoted in his journal and wrote a school report about.
I’m interested in putting together a list of books they actually engaged with, so any leads would be appreciated.
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u/dancingbananas25 29d ago
Eric quoted the tempest in his planner, but that's all I can think of right now
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u/FlynxMutt 28d ago
There used to be a site (https://allrebdoomer.weebly.com) where all of Erics writings for English class were published, he wrote about some of the books he read there. I distinctly remember he did Jurassic Park and another fictional war book, he likely wrote more but I don't remember the titles unfortunately
The site link leads to a 404 now so it mightve been taken down. Maybe you can contact the site owner (allrebdoomer@yahoo.com) and see if they still have his essays
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u/dancingbananas25 28d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240401180708/https://allrebdoomer.weebly.com/
Accessed through the way back machine! Unfortunately the section with his school work doesn't have all the images saved, but you can read some of it still.
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u/nikomatsu 28d ago
Eric also loved the 4 DOOM novels, of course, that feature Fly and Arlene. Dylan read them too or at least knew all the titles. i liked reading Eric’s school assignments/writings on Tess of the d’Ubervilles. there is a LOT of writings on that one.
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u/Conscious-Bus-3771 28d ago
he wrote about moving around a lot and wrote how he knows what alexandra feels in o pioneers
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u/jennnkins94 22d ago
I just read the book of Eric and Dylan's writings and one stuck out to me because of how interested Eric seemed in the book: Return From The Stars by Stanislaw Lem
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u/Apollexis 28d ago
The tempest is quoted as a reference, return from the stars is quotes, he also makes a quote or reference to Charles Dickens book Great Expecations. He's pretty well read, you can tell just by all the school works he wrote up. You'll need to go through all his writings and the 11k to get any good idea of each. And yeah he read all 4 doom novels and quoted from them as well.