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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*Gets pitchfork**gets flaming torches*
Right, which one of you first?
In fairness, to the original post though, it is not brilliantly written, it has bugger all plot development, despite Tolkien stating that the final section of the Shire getting a damn good raping at the hands of the industrial orcs was not an allegorical account of the destruction of Englands green and pleasant land by heavy industry it quite clearly is, and to cap it all off, the relationship between Sam and Frodo was the greatest homoerotic love story until Point Break came along.
But (and it's a big but)(yes Tourettes that was hilarious now swallow your drink)
It's an absolutely cracking adventure story set in such a huge varied world with every type of creature you could imagine that I cannot condemn it, despite finding most of books two and three mind numbingly tedious to get through every time I've read it.
But you're right. Pratchett is most certainly god when it comes to "fantasy" novels.
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