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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I loved itBut skimmed the final section - her autobiographical bit. The part that most interested me was the grandmother's section and it made me seek out similar books - well, at least books set at a similar period in time, but entirely fiction. So I followed it up with things like Memoirs of a Geisha (yes, I know it's a different country, but sufficiently 'foreign' to Western culture for me on an Far East reading kick), Falling Leaves, The Binding Chair, A Gesture Life, Empress Orchid and so on.
But avoid Margaret Drabble's Red Queen - she should stick to writing English Literature Companions.
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 19 May 2008, 18:49,
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