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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Hmm...A book that changed my life? Was it Great Expectations? The way I was able to identify with Pip's conflicts and the book that taught me that money doesn't always make you happy, that bitterness is destructive and that your life is what you make of it. Foucault's Pendulum? That kept me in awe of the author the whole way through? Homage to Catalonia that for a short time bridged the gaping chasm between me and my father? The Outsiders? Shadow of the Wind? Wuthering Heights? Hamlet? The Island of Apples? Amazing stories all.
It was The Wisdom of Winnie the Pooh. Having been kicked out by my father, put myself through my A'Levels when living with and the having a spectularly nasty breakdown with a highly unsuitable boyfriend I read this little book. It contains the line, 'When your house doesn't look like a house and looks like a tree that has fallen on a house, it is time to get a new house.' If things are bad, get out and move on. Simple but effective. It took me years to see the end of the tunnel but I'm there. And I'm not ashamed to say the humour of that book helped.
I've actually come full circle. I'm happy. I'm getting married to a fantastic man and now the last lines of Great Expectations are more significant than they have ever been.
But I'm not going to tell you what they are. You have to read it for yourself. :)
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 10:39, Reply)
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