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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^ this top 100is voted for my Waterstone's customers, right? Well, I presume so given that many of the books aren't that interesting a read (I still don't get Winnie the Pooh - it makes me want to cull bears and piglets and small boys, etc.).
So, I guess it's books that are popular because we've all been exposed to them and they've been pushed at us, so we read 'em and vote for 'em - self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. I've read most of them not because I'm ticking them off a list but because Waterstone's customers are probably a similar demographic to me and I've had access to the lot of them. And more. (Thanks, librarian mum.) And quite frankly I'd read anything if I was desperate, and I frequently am. My Mastermind subject is going to be "The back of breakfast cereal packets, 1980-1994".
Hell, I read pulpy American trashy crime by the lorryload so don't listen to me.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 19 May 2008, 17:29,
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