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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Ooooh how could i forget?Doubtless been mentioned, but I'd thought I'd throw my two pennies in. Catch 22 is one of the best books I've ever read. It's probably the most obvious source for my love of dark humour, and probably why I like B3ta. The combination of brilliant, sharply observed humour and wordplay (Major Major Major Major anyone?) and the sudden shock tactics and genuinely upsetting deaths is absolutely stunning. The contrasts also happen very quickly, within one page in one case, so you are laughing one minute and crying the next. It shows war, and the world to be completely bloody insane. Brilliant
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