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The 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

(, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
The most hilariously funny and absurd book I have ever read. It is a short story of, unsurprisingly, three men and a dog on a boating holiday, on which they fall foul of various ridiculous situations.

I'm always a bit reserved when reccommending books to people too strongly, but with this book I am willing to make an exception.

It quite simply is the most amusing book I have ever read. The interaction between these victorian gentlemen aboard a boat, annoying each other and bickering like schoolkids is gold.

One of the scenes with the dog being a pest on the boat and one of the men sitting on the butter had me crying with laughter the first time I read it, and writing this I have a stupid smirk on my face. I'm going to read it now actually.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 0:45, 3 replies)
It's a corker!
The funniest book I've ever read! I had tears streaming down my face when Harris sang a comic song. Great stuff. Plus it's always great to support people who's parents named them twice (Jerome K. Jerome).
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 7:06, closed)
*clicks*
A fine book, and hailing from Walsall (as Jerome K Jerome did) I've been to the JKJ museum, my school headmaster was a member of the JKJ Society, and in the Saddlers' Centre (Walsall town centre shopping arcade, where the train station is) there is a giant animatronic Three Men in a Boat clock - on the hour the figures all move as the dog steals the sausages. We're very proud of him in Walsall, and rightly so.

Also, early on while they're still in London, he mentions the pub where my ex lives and where I've spent many a happy night :)
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 11:42, closed)
True story
It took me at least a chapter to work out there was a dog. I was very confused.
(, Thu 22 May 2008, 4:11, closed)

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