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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It didn't change me at all, but my favourite book ever has to be"Goodnight Mister Tom" by Michelle Magorian. I don't have a clue why I got or where I got it from either. I now sometimes skip out the part where Willie has to go back home to his mum though. A few weeks later I bought it for my best friend for her birthday, and a few weeks after that I studied it at school (year 7/8 I think). But this didn't change my love for it as it was already my favourite book and the only book that I have studied that I can still bear.
And for my favourite non-fiction "One Red Paperclip" by Kyle Macdonald, it's just such an interesting adventure and show's how truly anything is possible (with enough media coverage!)
(, Thu 15 May 2008, 19:38, 1 reply)
You are rightthat studying books in school ruins most of them. My English class in year 10 was told to read Lord of the Flies over summer, so we could study it afterwards. And I, being pretty much the only literate one in the group, was the only one to do so. And I really liked it, until we went over it in mind numbing detail, and since then it has lost all of it's appeal.
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