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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@Porkylips and BGB.The exact opposite.
My childhood in the sixties(born 1960) was one of fairly bad poverty. So, in about 1972, we had a few hundred thousand Indians suddenly arrive in Britain after Idi Amin kicked them out of Uganda . This was few years after Enoch Powell's "River Of Blood" speech.
So, about age 13, I was recruited by the National Front. It made sense to me as a kid. Simplistic arguments that made me understand that, the reason we were so poor, was that these "PAKIS" (even though they were actually Indians) were coming over here, taking our jobs.
Over the next couple of year I moved more and more right-wing until I looked on Ghengis Kahn as a lefty-liberal.
Then I read that book.
Told you I wasn't comfortable telling this..
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 20 May 2008, 14:07,
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