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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Just the oneI have just this week finished my English degree, and the one book that I will take away, dogeared and battered and reread to buggery is "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" by Kate Atkinson. It was one of the very first books I read for my degree, and it just brought out so many emotions-I laughed, I cried, and I got so, so involved with it. Every time I had to read an unenjoyable book for my course (which was quite often) I would go back to this book afterwards and just remember that reading on my degree wasn't always dull or annoying or just too bloody long and hard.
The best bit, however, was lending it to my Grandma to read and her confessing that, while reading it, she'd had to keep a notebook with the characters and their relationships scribbled down so she knew who was who. Bless.
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