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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East of EdenAnything by Steinbeck rocks, but East of Eden is just wonderful. This probably sounds a bit odd, but I genuinely felt a little sad when I got to the end of it, simply because I wouldn't have the pleasure of reading it for the first time again. There's not very many authors who can do that.
Haven't seen the film and not sure I'd want to - in most instances they're not a patch on the book. Charlotte Grey really pissed me off...
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I read all of Steinbeck's stuffafter I discovered he'd been mates with a distant uncle of mine who was a sculptor. Apparently he came to stay a few times.
I read East of Eden whilst at an IT conference in Atlanta. So jetlagged I couldn't sleep, I just sat in my 30th floor hotel room reading East of Eden aloud to myself for a whole weekend.
It was quite trippy to be honest. God knows what the people in next door rooms thought.
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chthonic, Fri 16 May 2008, 13:09,
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Did you do all the voices too?(
chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 16 May 2008, 14:20,
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