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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@CHCBOK - but, even allowing that that happened, it wasn't a part of a political programme to "cleanse" Europe of Irish Catholics. Hitler's power was largely premised on eliminating Jewish "contamination". But English policy in Ireland had been something of a disaster from the point of view of most of the Irish for several centuries before Cromwell, and remained so for a long time afterwards. Cromwell was simply one part in a line; there's nothing all that special about him or anything that he did that couldn't equally well have been done by Charles had he still been on the throne (allowing for the fact that Charles possibly would have been better for the Irish simply by virtue of being too dumb to fuck them over).
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 20 May 2008, 9:58,
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