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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Lud HeatSuicide Bridge and White Chapell, Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair. I never thought of the written word in quite the same way afterwards.
La Vie, Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec. Like a whole world somehow shoehorned into a book.
The Illuminatus! & Schrödinger's Cat trilogies by Robert Anton Wilson (and, in the case of Illuminatus!, Robert Shea). Genuinely changed the way I looked at the world and definitely helped set me on the path to my first proper paying job. I was lucky enough to have dinner with Robert Anton Wilson the last time he was in the UK, about twelve years ago and he was every bit as fascinating in person as you'd imagine from the books.
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