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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"An enquiry into meaning and truth", by Bertrand Arthur Russell... because all the fantasy/scifi books are a bit lowbrow, eh?
It was bloody hard work, I had to read most sentences twice to get the point (I was only in my teens). It helped give me such clarity of thought and precision of language that no-one can understand what the hell I'm talking about, what with all the caveats and special cases I (tend to) load each sentence with, designed to make sure I don't impart misinformation. Either that or my writing becomess brutally terse, or wilfully obscure. I write with a sledgehammer.
I'm not sure there's much of a story; but at least I didn't become a philosopher (as long as you exclude Natural Philosophy from the category of Philosophy, that is).[1]
[1] Damn. But it's more the Scots who like to call physics "natural philosophy"[2]
[2] But then, I do have a PhD.[3]
[3] That damn Bertrand Russell! See what he's done! The b*****d!
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