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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please dont laughWhen I was growing up I was a shy little ¼y (before I grew into my current ½yness) and didn't have a lot of friends, because of this I read a lot of my parents books and so have a strange love of
Bernard Cornwells Sharpe series, long before it was Beaned up as a tv series (the battle scenes were embarrassing, not enough people!!) I read and re-read them written in sequence throughout the napoleonic war.
However I have some issues, basically the fact he got all famous and started jamming new Sharpe books in left right and centre. Look we have all (figuratively speaking) read Sharpes Waterloo, we know he was still alive then so adding another book based in 1810 just fucks the continuity up big time
edit: because of my folks have also got a large aount of Douglas Reeman, Hornblower books and have read more Dick Francis than should be acceptable (i.e. more than 1!)
(, Thu 15 May 2008, 20:09, 1 reply)
Sharpe is class!I saw the tv series before reading the books and loved it, but i now realise how good it could have been. A new sharpe film with some quality battle scenes would be ace though replacing sean bean wouldnt be easy.
(, Thu 15 May 2008, 22:15, closed)
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