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The 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

(, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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Books that should be kept in the fridge.
"The Story of O" by Pauline Reage, "The Delta of Venus" by Anais Nin, "The Dirty Havana Trilogy" by Pedro Juan Gutierrez. You get the idea.

Dirty books. I love them.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:13, 19 replies)
Hello miss!
I've never heard of any of them, in what way are they dirty..?
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:15, closed)
She covers them
in fluff and dust and toenail clippings before she reads them.

Hi Bob!
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:16, closed)
@Bert
You've never heard of them? And there was me thinking you were an experienced simian of the world...

EDIT: Hi, Bob! My cousin has a piece he composed being played at the last night of the Proms! Woo!
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:17, closed)
Bert could
just be fishing in an attempt to get Bob to give a brief (but not to brief) teasing summary of the novels discussed in that wonderfully sultry voice that only Bob has.

of course that's in my imagination, I don't know what Bobs voice is like, but given that she's a singer I imagine it's pretty nice
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:21, closed)
@Enzyme
Nope, it's all an illusion. I'm actually a three year old dwarf rabbit with a learning disability that prevents me from wearing shoes.

*wibble*

I am making notes though, this QOTW is giving me a huge catalogue of books to read that I would never have heard of before.

EDIT sing us a song Bob! Preferably anything but 'I ain't no hollaback girl.'
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:23, closed)
Sing that one
by Gwen Stefani, about bananas!

Oh, Hi Bert, didn't see you there.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:26, closed)
'My shit is bananas,
B-A-N-A-N-A-S,
this shit is bananas,
B-A-N-A-N-A-S,'

You wanna lay off the Nesquik, love.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:28, closed)
Bob
is like a QOTW guerilla. She posts and then disapears back into the night.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:31, closed)
@al
Because, unlike us, she has a life.

I think I might cry.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:32, closed)
Delta of Venus
was just plain weird!
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:32, closed)
I'm already crying inside.
Hi gmf, any update on your boss calling you a hussy?
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:35, closed)
OoooOOOoooh...
*wonders in what kind of an office gmf works*
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:36, closed)
Gosh
You guys just really like having conversations in my QOTW answers, don't you?

I'll give you a song. I'm going through a bit of a life-crisis at the moment regarding whether I really want to be an opera singer or not (given that I can be prone to shyness at the most random moments, I don't like being the centre of attention, and I don't sing terribly well under pressure, but mostly because p/grad tuition fees will be over 7k per year for music college when I want to go), and if that's the case, whether my entire life is just one big waste of time and space.

So I'll sing some self-obsessed maudlin jazz instead, to reflect my fucked-up mood: "Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk. You can't hear it though, you'll have to imagine in. A low, creamy voice, with a sultry whisper running through.

Enzyme: woot! Good for her! (I'm assuming your cousin is Anna Meredith).

Fuck me I'm feeling depressed today.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:22, closed)
@BF
No - Chris Hazell. He's Mum's cousin, so I only get him by proxy... Still: he used to be on Let's Pretend
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:36, closed)
@Enzyme
The arrangement of trad. Scottish fold songs? Good for him!
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:37, closed)
Yep... that's the one.
Never actually heard any of his stuff before. He wrote Mum's wedding march - which she's never heard except for a few seconds. He either lost contact or the score...
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:39, closed)
Books that should be kept in the fridge?
How about The iceman cometh.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:41, closed)
If The Iceman Cometh
whilst you're giving him a blow job, would it be quite refreshing on a warm summers day?
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:53, closed)
@Enzyme
Let's Pretend? bloody hell, I remember that!

*Feels age*
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:54, closed)

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