This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective AgencyDouglas Adams's masterpiece showed me just what the human imagination is capable of. When I first read it back in 1988, I was completely in awe of the products of Douglas Adams's imagination. It inspired me to try harder to think weirder thoughts. Even today, I think it’s the best book ever.
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:37,
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I have a friend who looks like Dirk GentlyOr rather, he looks like the Dirk in my imagination.
Fantastic book.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Thu 15 May 2008, 16:10,
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Douglas being Douglasripped the plot wholesale from a Doctor Who script he penned, and which was half made but never finished due to a BBC strike - Shada it was called.
I've seen the bits that survive. It's not really that good.
Like the book though.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 15 May 2008, 17:24,
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Completely batty though...Trying to follow quite what the hell is going on in that book is always entertaining. The first time I read it I had to sit down at the end and work out what the hell happened and what exactly linked a lot of hte different plots together.
Currently halfway through reading the Hitchhikers guide yet again, Dirk Gently may be on th ecards afterwards...
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You get a clickbut I think The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul is better
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 15 May 2008, 18:27,
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Passing down the generationsI loved the radio, books and TV series of Hitch-Hikers and now my 9 and 13 yr old sons are getting into all Douglas Adams' work as well. I think it shows a good imagination if you can find all his work humerous.
I just hope they turn out as well rounded an individual as I am.
Wibble.
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I think the trick is to re-read the entire book as soon as you've read it. Douglas Adams has the habit of being holistic. If the end of the book is still fresh in your mind, you can decipher the plot.
@emvee
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is also a bloody good book (the opening line "It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression “As pretty as an airport.”" is the best opener I’ve ever seen in a novel and "The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks." is also a good quote) but I prefer Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 17 May 2008, 14:33,
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