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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One I reccomend, One I want to ownI enjoyed reading 'As used on the famous Nelson Mandela' by Mark Thomas. It's a book on his investigation into the arms trade which may sound quite dull, but it's very funny- if you know who Mark Thomas is you can guess why. The part where he gets the Israeli bloke who's built an automatic stoning machine to give a presentation to the arms firm he set up as an after school activity with a bunch of teenage girls from an Irish convent school is hilarious and bizarre in equal measures. It also got me thinking that I could start up my own arms business.
I am also planning on buying Atlanta Nights. Not for the quality of the book itself*, but the fact that this book was nothing but an in joke by a bunch of Sci Fi writers to show the stupidity of PublishAmerica and its alleged review of manuscripts policy (PublishAmerica also mocked SciFi authors at one point) .
*The book itself is woeful with missing chapters, characters die then suddenly reappear without any explanation, two chapters that are the same (word for word identical) placed in different parts of the book and a chapter written by a computer program that generated text.
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"It also got me thinking...my own arms business"I dont know anyone that has read that book that HASN'T then added "arms dealer" to their list of possible career choices in the future.
Somehow I dont think that was the message mr Thomas was trying to get across...
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Arms dealing...Thankfully, I am in one of the few professions that still offers a final salary pension. Houpla for me. And to what do I owe this cushy bounty?
Yep. The arms trade, into which my pension fund invests with abandon.
I love guns. I think there should be more.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 19 May 2008, 12:30,
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