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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Bloop bloopI suppose many books have changed/influenced my life.
When I was younger (12-14) I was really influenced to gravitate towards studying history by reading such books as: The 12 Caesars (Suetonius), The Civil Wars (Caesar), The Annals (Tacitus), The Persian Expedition (Xenophon). Quite probably highly pretentious I know, but I was a rather geeky kid who lived in a house full of books like that.
As I got older such books as Catch 22 (Joseph Heller), A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) and the Flashman novels were a distraction at difficult times in my life.
Recently, have read Night by Elie Wiesel, Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number by Jacobo Timermann, Shake Hand With The Devil by Romeo Dallaire, Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, all of which have, to varying extents, helped with the various problems I've been facing.
Next up to read is Facundo by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, although I might (in fact probably will) get lazy and read it in English rather than the original Spanish.
I don't understand people who don't read. I read all the time when I was younger, and still read a lot now. The books above (only a selection from what I read) were there when there was nasty shit going on at home. I don't know what I'd do if there were no books in the world (or Tea for that matter).
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:08, Reply)
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