Believe it or not, the Bible, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lost World", Stephen King's "the Stand". They are all books that have influenced me greatly. Also, not a book, but I saw a movie once about this guy who went into the wilderness with a very few tools and hardly anything, and he built a cabin and lived off the land for I think it was a year or two. I can't remember if he was just doing it to see if he could or what. It was very cool, I always fantasize about doing that.