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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Nevermind Louie, twas Enid that gave me the horrorsAlice & Co were just an esoteric bunch of British eccentrics compared to the mass-manufactured institutionalised (& occasionally xenophobic) fairy tales doled out by that priggish schoolmarm Enid Blyton. No matter where the Magic Faraway Tree went ('Where are we going Fanny?' 'We're off to the Land of Do As You're Told') there was no escaping the class system.
I recommend Saki as a wonderful antidote to all that straitlaced surrealism.
Btw, I lived in Limerick for nigh on 10 years and the only ills I accumulated were just two abrasions on the back of me head and only a moderate amount of bile (more due to reading the first two chapters of Angela's Ashes than anything else, there cannot be a more miserable self-pitying whinger than Frank McCourt.)
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