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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Some book on programming ZX81 BASIC .... don't even recall it's title anymore. I was ten at the time. The front cover featured a drawing of a computer game whose graphics would be outright impossible to do on a ZX81, ever. But it tricked me. And for better or worse, it put me on the tracks towards what I am now doing professionally, developing software.
Just glad that it wasn't "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" that I read at that tender and impressionable age. (It's a brilliant book, BTW).
(, Mon 19 May 2008, 19:27, 1 reply)
ha haI fell for that trick when programming my zx81 too.
Never looked like the pictures at all. Gutted.
I also ended up working with 'puters so turned out ok in the END. GOTO 20
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BadBadman saw an incorrect comma placement on, Tue 20 May 2008, 9:41,
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