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This is a question This book changed my life

The 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

(, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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have to disagree with you there
I went through the complete Coelho canon on my trip through magical realism and the latin american sub-pop-genre.

My tittyfucking Christ what god awful self congratulatory quasi-mystical tripe; I mean the Alchemist is spectacularly meaningless and limp, but at least it has the decency to be clearly allegorical and best of all, only about 2 eye bleeding hours short. The rest of them, getting deliberately more mawkish, lightweight and knowing as they go on are just the most terrible waste of paper this side of the Daily Mail. And don't get me started on Gabriel Garcia Marquez... all of the above, only longer.

I heartily concur with many of the other posters' dismay at 'zen and the art of whining about your breakdown'... some books seem to offer you a gold plated ladder to enlightment, when all you really need to do is stand up and walk there.

(and that one with the young hooker... christ, all the intellectual depth of Pretty woman, without the textual mastery and multidimensional characters).

Glad your friend married someone she shagged on holiday, though. Fuck me, that's never happened to anyone before... must have been destiny, or something.
(, Sun 18 May 2008, 15:33, Reply)

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