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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Anya by Susan Fromberg ScheafferBased on extensive interviews with a Holocaust survivor, this is a terribly sad but equally beautiful story that chronicles the lives of a European Jewish family before, during and after World War II that brings the rather abstract concept of the Holocaust down to a personal level. While we understand the horror of millions dying in the Holocaust, the vast numbers make it rather difficult to grasp the true magnitude of that loss. By seeing the impact of the Holocaust on an individual family that you get to know intimately, come to care about deeply and can easily identify with, you better understand the apalling devastation of the Holocaust. These aren't "important" people - they're an average, middle class family who love each other, have a happy life together and are undeservingly, utterly destroyed. Multiply these flawed but wonderful people by millions, and you gain a new appreciation for the lives of those who died and the loss of the pre-war world they lived in. I've read this book once a year since the mid-'80s for a number of reasons, one of the most important being to remind me how easily this could happen again, even to us, if we aren't vigilant.
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