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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Uncle Arthur's Bedtime StoriesFollowing on from my previous post, a book - or series of books - that I'd totally forgotten had changed my life.
My parents are totally awesome atheists/agnostics/couldn'tgiveafuckists, but in the late 70s my dad's sister got religion, and decided to share it with me by giving me a shiny pile of Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories. These heartwarming Christian tales emphasised clean living virtues, the primary of which was "BE SURE YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT".
Even though I never got religion, the fear of God was nevertheless put in me. As a result, I am clinically incapable of lying - hence my inability to perform at job interviews. What I've found since then is that if I don't say anything, that's not actually lying.
Did anyone else get these happy little stories?
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Dear God yesThe only story I can remember was about some spaz who went on a trip to the beach and missed the bus home. She was full of panic and asked God how she was going to get home, when miraculously ANOTHER BUS TURNED UP!
My own belief in the non existance of God was cemented when I tried this trick folowing a drunken night out, and not a single bus/taxi/train or bicycle materialised, resulting in a 6 mile stagger home in the wee small hours.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 22 May 2008, 12:08,
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