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've had to have big thinks about this...The Chronicles of Narnia, not because of the religious, pro-Christ conotations, but because it was the first set of books I read myself, at the age of 4. Being able to manipulate, and be manipulated by, the written word was a wonderful new experience and made me the word-hungry, book-loon I am today.
The Scent Of Dried Roses - Tim Lott. An account of dealing with personal depression and the depression suffered by his mother. I know everyone feels the "This book is about ME" moment, but never have I felt that level of understanding by another human being.
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland. For starting a novel so normally, and then taking it off at such a tangent. Books were always about set-in-stone things before I read this, and it made me think about what would happen if everything *stopped*. Would those that were left be able to handle the responsibility?
The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake. Because he makes the written world such a wonderful tool to create whole universes that are close to, but completely separate from ours.
The Very Hungry Caterpilar. Because I was a fat child.
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