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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readin'I know loads of people who don't -or who have never - read. They say they don't have time, that they can't find anything they like, that it's boring. I think its a combination of a few things:
Their only memory of reading is being made to do it at school, with no choice over what they read. Reading is a solitary activity, and people of weak character feel the need to be among others in order to exist and be acknowledged. Plus, reading takes practice and experience. There are not many people who'd be prepared for (or interested in) going from Dan Brown to Dawkins on a single day, or going from Chick Lit to a nineteenth-century doorstopper. It takes flexibility and patience to get into a book.
I wonder how many of the people who slag off Heat or Jordan or other pulp fiction have actually read it. Most of it is quite readable - just not profound. There's room for shallow idiocy if you balance it with something cerebral.
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