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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I think the trick is to re-read the entire book as soon as you've read it. Douglas Adams has the habit of being holistic. If the end of the book is still fresh in your mind, you can decipher the plot.
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is also a bloody good book (the opening line "It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression “As pretty as an airport.”" is the best opener I’ve ever seen in a novel and "The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks." is also a good quote) but I prefer Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 17 May 2008, 14:33,
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