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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Does anyone else thinkthat the endings of both Perfume and Portrait of Dorian Grey were rubbishy cop outs? My anger at getting to the end of both reached fairly high levels.
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Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 16 May 2008, 18:15,
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Dorian Graywasnt really a cop out, it was all building to it. I think from the moral point of view of the story, Dorian had to pay penance for his deal with the devil, and had to die.
edit: its also to do with beauty. Beauty has to die, it can't be infinite or else it isn't beautiful, it's just ordinary.
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I wasn't referring to the storybut the "bollocks I'm off to the pub" brevity of it.
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Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 16 May 2008, 18:45,
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Well yesBut that's mostly because it was printed in a magazine before publication as a book. Wilde was probably limited in his word count
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