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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After I read 1984 it blew my mind,I mean I was 17, and the concept of the totalitarian government monitoring me through the use of the thought police captivated my imagination. Suddenly, so many thoughts and beliefs made sense, I finally knew where the term Room 101 came from among other things. I was just awe struck.
Fast forward a month after I finished the book. I'm having a vivid nightmare. One of those where it's so real that you think you're awake. For some reason the thought police are after me. Nobody knows why, I don't know why, but they dame sure are after me. Only because my nightmare is set in the present and not the far off future of 1984 its the BBC* who are the thought police.
Suddenly I'm running round switching off all forms of communication in a bid to prevent the BBC from finding me. I turn off all TVs (because they use them to spy on me), radios are off. My phone wont stop ringing in the nightmare world. I try to turn it off but it wont work, the bastards have tracked me.
I wake up and the mobile on my bedside is ringing. Im still only half outta my nightmare at this stage and answer my phone and yell down it, "THE BBC ARE AFTER ME!, I HAVE TO RUN!!"
Found out next week that my mate Eddie rang me while he was wankered. I didn't remember answering my phone until he told me in school.
*I found out a few months after that George Orwell actually worked for the BBC at one point, freaky.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 2:52, Reply)
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