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The 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

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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I'm developing a pet peeve from this topic...
Orwell's book was called Nineteen Eighty-Four. 1984 was the film.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:00, 26 replies)
You must get annoyed a lot in the normal world.
No wonder you get bad headaches.
(I helped save b3ta! girlinthehole, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:02, closed)
Me too!
Still, glad many people have read the film.

Or watched the book.

Or whatever it was they did.
(I helped save b3ta! Thinker, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:05, closed)
Enzyme, I love you.
I was thinking the same thing earlier. It's one of my favourite books, get it right people!
(I helped save b3ta! Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:07, closed)
Unless of course
by sheer coincidence, all these people read the screenplay and thought it was so good they wouldn't bother with the source material.

Then you would all look a bit stupid eh! eh!?
(I helped save b3ta! Bazongaloid, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:12, closed)
Which reminds me
One of my most treasured possessions is the ability to know the difference between correcting someone's mistake and sounding like a pedant.
(I helped save b3ta! mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:12, closed)
OOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOh!
Hark at you two!

Right, where's my handbag?
(I helped save b3ta! Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:13, closed)
*passes handbag to mister spakkman*
*prepares an "ooooooooooooooooo" for him in case he needs it*

Edit - dammit Bert, we are spending far too much time on the same websites.
(I helped save b3ta! Bazongaloid, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:13, closed)
Pedant?
Why, yes. Yes I am.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:14, closed)
al
We are kindred spirits, it's a fact that cannot be denied.

Enzyme and I were being light-hearted of course, they're all going to keep calling it 1984 anyways.
(I helped save b3ta! Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:15, closed)
Another book I like a lot is...
Catch twenty two.
(I helped save b3ta! girlinthehole, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:15, closed)
Personally, I love the film
Two-thousand and one, a Space Oddysey.
(I helped save b3ta! Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:18, closed)
Ahh
But does anyone know what the book was going to be called originally
(I helped save b3ta! KISS.ME.WHERE.I.POO Signed the sex offenders register on, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:20, closed)
^Nineteen eighty three
Just guessing.
(I helped save b3ta! girlinthehole, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:21, closed)
No offence meant.
Just wanted to jump on the "previous QOTW" bandwagon.

* Passes handbag back to althegeordie *

* Offers to shake Enzyme's hand *
(I helped save b3ta! mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:21, closed)
Oh you are clever, mistaspakkaman,
I didn't even get that at all.

Was it going to be be called 'Winston's wonderful adventures in the whimsical world of Airstrip One'?
(I helped save b3ta! Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:23, closed)
@Bert
It's like you were looking over his shoulder as he wrote...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:27, closed)
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Sorry ‘bout that. Got bitten by a kitten after it had had its first cigarette. (BTW. This story is absolutely shit.)
(I helped save b3ta! mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:29, closed)
Was it
"I find rats a little scary - A short story by a gin soaked loner"
(I helped save b3ta! Bazongaloid, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:29, closed)
Are you suggesting
that I bummed George Orwell?


I'm not denying it, but unfortunately I didn't get the chance while he was alive.
(I helped save b3ta! Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:29, closed)
Okay then.
Where did this bit with the handbag come from? Enlighten us ignorant Merkins...
(I helped save b3ta! The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 16 May 2008, 14:30, closed)
@TRL
Just little old ladies getting shocked, or inciting trouble by raising their handbags, and going, 'Oooooooooh!'.

I think.
(I helped save b3ta! Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:33, closed)
Incidentally,
my post wasn't a handbag moment, it was meant quite light heartedly, it just happened to proceed misterspakkmanns, which made it look like part of a double whammy.
(I helped save b3ta! Bazongaloid, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:33, closed)
^Laughs
Hitting someone with your handbag means you fight like a girl.

Edit - sorry, it is old women.
(I helped save b3ta! girlinthehole, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:35, closed)
@TRL
I always thought it was because your typical "Essex Girl" (no offence to any actual Essex girls here mind) would settle her differences with a handbag and the Oooooooooooooh bit was a sort of gay mans take on the bitchiness that would occur before handbags were flung or swung or other words ending in ung.
(I helped save b3ta! Bazongaloid, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:40, closed)
@al
Thanks for clearing this up.

Anyone up for a massive orgy of handbag-bashing?

EDIT: Gah! Al's placed my post in a new light again.
(I helped save b3ta! mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:41, closed)
Heh.
About what I thought, then. It's a great mental image. I just didn't know if it was a reference to a TV character or something.

Makes me think of Ruth Buzzi on "Laugh In".
(I helped save b3ta! The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 16 May 2008, 14:42, closed)

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