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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hmmm well. bear with meThis is a bit of a hard one. The question has vexed me all day.
What constitutes a book that 'changed my life'? I mean we all enjoy a good read from time to time, whether its the Metro or In the name of the rose. but im not sure what changes a book from one that i really really liked to one that fundamentally affects my existence.
I love the Hitch Hiker tri cinquology thingy. And i take the point that posters have made that it changes your sense of humour for ever if you read it at a formative age as i did. A bit like Tom Sharpe novels and PG Wodehouse ones do too - but nothing that radically altered the choices i have made or the paths i have taken, even if they have altered my outlook on life and its petty tribulations for the better.
If you want a rollicking good time from a book, a book that makes your heart beat a little harder as it climaxes in a desperate four boat shoot out, a book that makes you stand just a little taller, then may i suggest A Ship of the Line by CS Forester.
There are other books both before and after in the series but non of them seal Hornblowers rep like this one does.
It makes me happy, regularly.
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