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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StorytellerAny kiddies of the mid-80s remember this collection? I think there was around 26 issues that came with a cassette. They had lots of classic stories like the Wizard of Oz, some of the Grimm tales, Wind in the Willows etc.
There were two tales that I suppose changed my life, n that they scared the shit out of me and began my life-long succession of strange and lucid dreams.
The first was actually a story from Maori mythology. About a fisherman meeting a large serpent and mer-man. I think it was the pictures in the magazine more than the story itself that affected.
The second was a poem called The Troll. The poem was fairly disturbing for a five or six year-old, but it was a combination of the frankly deranged, atonal, dirge they played as background music on the tape and the picture in the magazine. It still makes me shudder.
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Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:06,
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I think I DO remember them!One of them had some folk music in the background that I really liked, and kept getting frustrated when the reader started talking over it.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:08,
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