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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The part that still makes me cry like a babyis Winston's flashback to when he was a boy, and his mother buys him a Snakes and Ladders game, and he's sulky and not interested in it, but she encourages him and they have fun playing it. Then he steals the chocolate he was meant to share with his sister and...fuck, I really am crying as I write this.
Never has anything in a book affected me so emotionally as that bit does. It's so tragic, so human and so well-written that it just sticks deep into me every time I even think about it. The selfish, unknowing boy, the loving mother trying to do the best for her children through difficult times, and the horror of what happens as a result...it's just unbelievably powerful.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:22,
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