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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As a childEvery Ralph Steadman children's book there was.
They gave me a taste for both the bizarre and the wonderful world of illustration and art, as well as later leading me on to Hunter S Thompson and beyond. I don't think I'd be the well-rounded, vaguely twisted b3ta-bod I am today without them and their legacy.
I still have these books for my future kids, and have supplemented them with what I reckon are the modern equivalents, The Day I Swapped My Dad For 2 Goldfish and The Wolves In The Walls, both by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
In terms of grown up books, I hurtled through the reading material at school as a child because it was all so INCREDIBLY awful and I wanted out. I was the first in my year to complete the requisite reading, and a year ahead at that. Why? Because sitting on the shelves of the library, which we weren't allowed to borrow from until the curriculum books were finished, was a copy of The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, which I was DESPERATE to read after finishing Hitchhiker's earlier in the year at my parent's.
That one did a lot of shaping too...
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