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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Largely, I agreeMoby Dick is the single greatest novel ever written. (For what it's worth, Melville has also written some of the greatest ever stories - Bartleby the Scrivener, in particular, is tremendous.)
I read The Magic Mountain a few months ago. Didn't get it, really - but I will read it again. Buddenbrooks is stunning.
Some of Shakespeare's characters are a bit naff - but you couldn't call Hamlet, Iago, Othello, Lear, Edmund, or Lear's fool one-dimensional. Nor Prospero. Or his Richard III.
Dickens is... ahem... overrated.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 15 May 2008, 16:09,
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