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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Ripley BogleCHCB reminded me about Robert McLiam Wilson. A book that had a very profound effect on my was his debut novel 'Ripley Bogle'. The main reason for this is that he is a contemporary of mine and wrote about a time and a place I knew and lived but at a rediculously young age. I first heard him interviewed on 'Loose Ends' by Emma Freud and was impressed enough to rush out and buy the book (well, I might have waited until it went to paperback). It has all the faults of a first novel but, for me, none of them manage to spoil it one iota. It has 'homage' to Joyce and quite possibly Anthony Burgess too, it is over-written and florid in places, it is autobiographical to a certain degree, but it is brilliant. I almost never see it in charity shops, though I always look. It is horrific and great and if by chance RMW is reading this, then sir, I salute you [stands...salutes...pauses...sits].
And change my life? It made me think that possibly I could write too.
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yes!And then I read Eureka Street and realised I'd probably never write anything as brilliant as that. Damn it.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 16 May 2008, 11:17,
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