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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A classicA prayer for Owen Meany is probably the best book I have ever read (and I read 3 or 4 a week).
A lesson in mortality told by a master novelist. How would you live YOUR life if you knew the date and method of your death?
It certainly made me think of my own mortality and my purpose in life. I may not be an instrument of god as Owen believes himself to be, but I certainly have taken more enjoyment from life since reading the book. It has made me think that it is how well you die that is important rather than how you well live.
Also by Irving worth looking at is The Water Method Man. one of his earlier works, quite raw and unrefined compared to his later work, but again excellant in the strenth of the characters.
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RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Wed 21 May 2008, 8:30,
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