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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Sophie's WorldAdmittedly I did read it years ago...but I thoroughly enjoyed it....but the philosophers are used as a literary device so I would guess that this is the reason for so many of their theories are....not entirely accurate.
I still think though, as a first introduction for children or young adults it does the job.
My first intro to philosophy was Politics A level - a rather pompous monk (who had recently graduated from seminary college) gave us a philosopher a week. Yes, one week for Machiavelli - we started with him, one week for Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Hume, Marx, and others whom now are consigned to the outer reaches of my memory.
I hated philosophy and avoided it until I did a Fine Art degree...then discovered I needed it.
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:11,
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