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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I'm not going to spend my whole lunchhour reading this thread but...What I find scarily true in Orwell's view of the future is the way the government will lie to us about reasons for going to war e.g. "The Iraquis have weapons of mass destruction and they can arm them in 48 hours", then, when this 'truth' is found to be no longer useful, they will say "Actually, the real reason we went into Iraq is because there were systems of WMDs...oh, wait a minute, it was because Saddam was sponsoring terrorism" when all along we KNOW it was just the oil, and imperialism and supporting Israel and backing the US etc. etc.
Double-speak and changing the past and using all of the means at the government's disposal to dupe us...Oh, and what about 'soma' the drug of the masses to keep them quiet? What's TV and the Lottery and licensing laws.
I could go on, and on.
Just keep being yourself, rely on yourself and your loved ones and disbelieve anything you read or hear in the media, especially if it comes from a trusted government source.
Amen.
Oh, and one last thing: PLEASE don't use 'randomly' so randomly!!!
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