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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Ulysses - James Joyce.Utter over rated shit.
It certainly changed the way I look at book critics.
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I've...read it twice. Why I did that to myself I have no idea!
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Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:04,
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critics and intellectualsAlways champion books that no one else can understand or like. That way, they seem clever. I wonder how many people have read The Satanic Verses all the way through? I couldn't, and I'm really clever.
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@frankI have, many times. I did my dissertation on Rushdie.
*edit* The Moor's Last Sigh is better though.
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Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:11,
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Never finished a RushdieGreat prose style, but I find if I put one down for a day, I have no interest in picking it up again.
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^^I spent so long reading Rushdie for the dissertation I went about 5 years before I picked another one up.
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Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:20,
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Yesbut the cartoon was the best.
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Fri 16 May 2008, 16:29,
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WWJD: What Wasn't Joyce Doing?Booze, opium, cocaine, if it was available, he did it. Then he emigrated to Paris and hit the Absinthe.
I've only read bits of Ulysses, but I still can't truly escape him, because I'm a (mature) student at his old alma mater: University College Dublin. They named the Library after him, and he's heavily represented in there. At least I'm not doing Arts, so I'm not directly exposed, but I still sometimes have to deal with Arts students who have been. Toxic bullshit.
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bnt what, me worry?, Sun 18 May 2008, 19:02,
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