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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shakespeareMy problem with his characters is that they do and say only what is necessary to move the plot forward. That's not character - it's a plot device.
Why does Iago want to fuck Othello over? There's never a clear or consistent reason. The reason is because nothing would happen otherwise.
Why does Lear give all his lands away and then go senile? Because without it there's no story. He's a symbol - nothing more
Hamlet? Dithering isn't character. He represents a rag-bag collection of motives and feelings that are necessary to (and change according to) the plot. These days he'd be an emo.
Without the poetry of his prose, Shakespeare is Dan Brown.
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