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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George Orwell EssayDidn't change my life as such, but made me realise something which has stayed with me ever since.
Can't remember the exact name of the book, but was a collection of Orwell's essays. One describes his time in the Indian Raj and how he had to oversee an execution... After reading it, I now cannot understand how anyone can support capital punishment. There was no description of the actual hanging or the horror of death, simply a brutal description of how a man was alive one minute, then dead (forever) the next. Really brought it home to me how black and white (and wrong wrong wrong) the practice is.
Check out Mister Serious sat in the serious corner eating serious pie
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It's called "Inside the Whale and other essays"and it's sat on me bookshelf at home.
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DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Fri 16 May 2008, 11:16,
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