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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Therese Raquinby Emile Zola, didnt change my life, but it certainly got my partner reading after several years since leaving school. She didnt read it, I read it to her at bedtime, much like we read to our daughter. Since then she has gone through my little library of classic and fiction and borrowing books of friends.
As an aside I was travelling home after dropping her off at her parents home and Book at Bedtime came on radio 4, I thought our 10 year old was fast asleep and decided to leave Daphne Du Maurier's Rebeca on. The bit where She is stood at the top of the stairs, and Mr De Winters sees her in the dress of his first wife..... ending with the discovery of a body in a sunken boat.... My little one (ok she's 10) cried out THATS NOT FAIR I want to find out what happens....
£8 later the following day she's reading it, complaining about that horrible Mrs. Danvers.
My daughter has read every Michael Morpurgo book, and owns about 80% of them. I believe everyone about 9 years old should read The Best Christmas Present in the World, and Private Peaceful. One story about WW1 the other set in WW1.
My own books? I'm going through the Forgotten Voices series of books reading the Last Fighting Tommy at the moment, and we think we have it bad....
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