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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PlusWhy can't a comic be a book? Just because it's told with pictures as well as words doesn't stop it being a book (quite aside from the obvious fact that a book is anything with bound pages). Books can and often do have illustrations that are an integral part of the experience of reading them, it's not exactly a long step to a graphic novel. And of course even many famous novels were written in an episodic form.
Seriously, if you're saying this it sounds like you've never read a decent graphic novel. For a standalone example that doesn't come with superhero baggage, try Maus. For a more conventional example, try V for Vendetta or Watchmen. Then tell me they aren't literature.
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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Tue 20 May 2008, 16:15,
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