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Which Book Changed Your Life?

igor
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 04:25 PM UTC #
animal farm & 1984 by orwell
markie
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 04:29 PM UTC #
I remember Stig as a childrens TV show……
brennser
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 04:32 PM UTC #
"Epaminondas" Another great kids book about a little boy who lived with his grandmother and was always getting into trouble. Can't find that one either but it was probably taken out of print because in todays world is not pc.
is this it?

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amazon
vansmack
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 04:36 PM UTC #
Grade School: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Junior High: To Kill a Mocking Bird

High School: Lord of the Fly's

College: The Marx-Engels Reader
mankie
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:01 PM UTC #
Thanks for the links…..to be honest part of the fun was looking in bookstores for them, but I give up…amazon it is! Rory's stocking just started getting filled. :D
poorlulu
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:13 PM UTC #
harold and the purle crayon, noddy and tintin when i was little……..

room with a view in my teens

iain banks……..the crow road i just love this book
hmmmm i wonder if jadetree will ever read it and return it………….hint,hint
ratioci nation
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:24 PM UTC #
Originally posted by poorlulu:

hmmmm i wonder if jadetree will ever read it and return it………….hint,hint
maybe… maybe not
vansmack
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:34 PM UTC #
Originally posted by poorlulu:
hmmmm i wonder if jadetree will ever read it and return it………….hint,hint
Actually, I think I have it……

**sinks head in shame**
markie
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:36 PM UTC #
we have two copies, thanks to a fortuitous ebay purchase of a job lot of banks books.

Its a great book too, read it.
poorlulu
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:38 PM UTC #
no vansmack i had 2 copies…………..

i gave you one to keep (so raise up yer chain little buddy)
and the other i generously loaned to pollard…………not that that means he will ever read it……….f@cker
ratioci nation
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:43 PM UTC #
Originally posted by poorlulu:
no vansmack i had 2 copies…………..

i gave you one to keep (so raise up yer chain little buddy)
and the other i generously loaned to pollard…………not that that means he will ever read it……….f@cker
sorry i had just read the other Banks book, I only read 1 book by a scottish author every 6 months, that way I dont go through all 4 of them in a short time and have nothing to look forward to
vansmack
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:45 PM UTC #
Originally posted by poorlulu:
no vansmack i had 2 copies…………..

i gave you one to keep (so raise up yer chain little buddy)
and the other i generously loaned to pollard…………not that that means he will ever read it……….f@cker
Yippee!!!

I'm only half way through it and the thought of rushing through it before I return it next week scared me.

Thank you very much.

It takes me forever to read it because I have to read it out loud and it's embarrassing to read out loud in coffee shops and on public transportation. But I really like it!
Samantha
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:53 PM UTC #
I dunno I guess I will say the Bronte poems, nice to see other people are just as dark and twisted as I am
poorlulu
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 06:54 PM UTC #
Originally posted by pollard:
[]sorry i had just read the other Banks book, I only read 1 book by a scottish author every 6 months, that way I dont go through all 4 of them in a short time and have nothing to look forward to
hahaha so very funny pollard……………

i thought you actively enjoyed having nothing to look forward to…………………

oh woe is you
thatguy
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 07:36 PM UTC #
_there's no such thing as a dragon_ by jack kent. every child should read it.

it made a mark on me:

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walkman
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 10:22 PM UTC #
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies.

Sonick would understand…it's a canadian thang.
El Tee
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 07, 2003 at 11:14 PM UTC #
Didn't change my life but I like:

As a kid: "Little Women" (chuckle all ya want;))
Adult: "Notes from the Underground" Dostoyevsky
palahniukkubrick
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Re: Which Book Changed Your Life? November 09, 2003 at 09:37 PM UTC #
These books didn't really make me change my lifestyle, but they did affect me the most: anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis, Malcolm X's autobiography, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, something by Amy Hempnel.

:)
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