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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Descent by Sabrina BroadbentNot just because it was a wonderful, hilarious and heartbreaking book, but because the author was my English Literature teacher in college.
I was really floundering at the time, having been chucked out of the family home with parents in and out of rehab and a mental hospital, and going through my first serious depressive phase.
I think reading it made me realise that you don't have to be superhuman to get published, you just have to be a talented writer.
I know this is excessively soppy and I apologise, but this book really did change my life because it made me realise that:
a) If she could be a writer, maybe I could too
b) If I could be a writer, maybe life was worth living after all
I'm a full-time writer now at the age of 20, so she must have been doing something right.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:33, Reply)
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