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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Believe It Or NotAs a young impressionable wee nipper of 14, I was a massive fan of reading. I read anything: cereal packets, trashy magazines, classic books...pretty much anything I could get my hands on.
Then one day, whilst lamenting the lack of scary horror books, an English supply teacher recommended the Books of Blood by Clive Barker+ as pretty damn terrifying.
So off I pop to my local library to check it out...however it's not there....someone already has it!
'Damn' I think to myself and pick up another by the same author:
Coldheart Canyon
This book was pretty much porn under the guise of a novel, much worse than ordinary porn where the plumber comes to fix the sink or whatever. I had picked up a dirty book!
And as an impressionable 14 year old I read it and all the erotic passion contained within.
Two months later I came out to my friends
...Yes....this book turned me off the opposite sex for life*!
And that is how a book changed my life
*may or may not be due to this book*
+And i never got round to reading them anyway
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Books of Blood are great.He's a top notch horror writer in these books but I'n not too keen on his other novels.
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girlinthehole, Tue 20 May 2008, 14:12,
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Clive Barker...Without him there'd be no Hellraiser.
One of my favorite "get drunk with mates and watch" films. That and the sequels.
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Cawl, Tue 20 May 2008, 14:22,
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The Books of the Art are FantasticIn fact most of his books are wonderful - read the Books Of Blood, they are great.
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fastcar, Tue 20 May 2008, 15:18,
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