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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Battered PenguinsI’ve always been a sucker for battered books from second-hand bookshops, you know the ones that have cracked spines, bent covers and sometimes even loose pages. My theory is that such books have been known and loved for a long time and therefore deserve my attention. This has led to some rather eclectic additions to my bookshelves (the ones I like I tend to replace with new(er) copies so I too can love them for a long time).
It was in this way I found one of the greatest books ever. The Seed and the Sower by Laurens Van Der Post. To my young mind (14) this book defined the results of cultural misunderstanding and created my current mindset that until you understand a culture and the reasons it acts in the way it does, you cannot really judge or even discuss the results of their actions.
Other than that I have loved many books and hope to have many more affairs with literature of all shapes and sizes.
Length? Doesn’t matter as long as the content is exceptional.
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I thought this was a recipe book for Antarctic explorers ...but I can see the attraction of ones that have clearly been well read.
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