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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Brookmyre and BanksOne Fine Day in the Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre. For those who haven't read it, it revolves around a school reunion and a bunch of terrorists, an unbeatable combination I'm sure. This is the book that finally gave me pause to think about and consequently forget permanently, the majority of the cuntbuckets I had to put up with at school.
The Crow Road by Iain Banks, this is a Scottish family saga spanning a few decades. The protagonist discovers the truth about his close and extended family and just how supremely messed up they are, but still manages to find love and happiness. This book simply resonated with me on a personal level, along with a few worrying parallels; I'm still working on the love and happiness part though.
Length, couple of hundred pages each, easily
(, Thu 15 May 2008, 19:45, 3 replies)
Brookmyer and Banks....rock. The only two fiction authors I really read anymore, I'm more into history books.
Banks' SF stuff is fantastic too.
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woopreferred a big boy did it and ran away meself, all of them excellent though
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Definitely agreeAlthough my favourite Brookmyre novel is 'A Tale Etched In Blood And Hard Black Pencil.' Less fantastical, but better for it
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