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This is a question This book changed my life

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

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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This is a QotW answer Believe It Or Not
As a young impressionable wee nipper of 14, I was a massive fan of reading. I read anything: cereal packets, trashy magazines, classic books...pretty much anything I could get my hands on.
Then one day, whilst lamenting the lack of scary horror books, an English supply teacher recommended the Books of Blood by Clive Barker+ as pretty damn terrifying.
So off I pop to my local library to check it out...however it's not there....someone already has it!
'Damn' I think to myself and pick up another by the same author:

Coldheart Canyon

This book was pretty much porn under the guise of a novel, much worse than ordinary porn where the plumber comes to fix the sink or whatever. I had picked up a dirty book!
And as an impressionable 14 year old I read it and all the erotic passion contained within.

Two months later I came out to my friends
...Yes....this book turned me off the opposite sex for life*!
And that is how a book changed my life

*may or may not be due to this book*
+And i never got round to reading them anyway
(Tea and Cider is procrastinating assignments, Tue 20 May 2008, 14:08, closed)
This is a QotW comment Books of Blood are great.
He's a top notch horror writer in these books but I'n not too keen on his other novels.
(I helped save b3ta! big-girl's-baubles thinks everything tastes better than skinny feels, Tue 20 May 2008, 14:12, closed)
This is a QotW comment Clive Barker...
Without him there'd be no Hellraiser.

One of my favorite "get drunk with mates and watch" films. That and the sequels.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl - King Of Wales, Tue 20 May 2008, 14:22, closed)
This is a QotW comment The Books of the Art are Fantastic
In fact most of his books are wonderful - read the Books Of Blood, they are great.
(I helped save b3ta! fastcar, Tue 20 May 2008, 15:18, closed)

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