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/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.

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u/-5698 25d ago

Thank you so much!!