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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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!?
(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.
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:12, closed)

OOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOh!
Hark at you two!

Right, where's my handbag?
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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.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:13, closed)

Pedant?
Why, yes. Yes I am.
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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.
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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.
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girlinthehole, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:15, closed)

Personally, I love the film
Two-thousand and one, a Space Oddysey.
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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
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KISS.ME.WHERE.I.POO Signed the sex offenders register on, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:20, closed)

^Nineteen eighty three
Just guessing.
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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 *
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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'?
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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...
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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.)
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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"
(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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
(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.
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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.
(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.
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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".
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 16 May 2008, 14:42, closed)

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