most influential books
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Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Excellent book. Very dark but excellent. For anyone from West london it'll hold added pleasure.
Basically shows the power a girls beauty can hold over a fella but how a man's infatuation can turn very evil
there is much more to the book than that though.
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Excellent book. Very dark but excellent. For anyone from West london it'll hold added pleasure.
Basically shows the power a girls beauty can hold over a fella but how a man's infatuation can turn very evil
there is much more to the book than that though.
Got get.
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Shakespeare, where language truly can be beautiful and inspiring, and after which I feel very human. I still return to the plays for comfort when I'm feeling a bit 'down'.
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Walks Like A Twat.
oddly nothing i read before the age of thirty has left any sort of lasting impression,apart from a vague fuzzy cultral awareness...most odd,I read all the classics,Hassel,Herbert,Price... 
"one flew over the cookoos nest",Ken Kessy and "heaven and hell" by Aldous Huxley.
more recently mainly "letter to daniel" by Fergal Keane "football factory" by Jon King. "The Lion and The Unicorn" by George Orwell."about a boy" by nick hornby.
"one flew over the cookoos nest",Ken Kessy and "heaven and hell" by Aldous Huxley.
more recently mainly "letter to daniel" by Fergal Keane "football factory" by Jon King. "The Lion and The Unicorn" by George Orwell."about a boy" by nick hornby.
Maddalene said:
If you like Flann O'Brien, you might like J.P.Donleavy. Try "The Saddest Summer of Samuel S" or maybe "The Onion Eaters".
Most influential books - that's a hard one. I guess the books that influenced me most were the ones that I read as a kid, probably because I was more open to influence then. One that really sticks out in my memory was "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madelene L'Engle.
belboid said:
Bought that the other week in the excellent oxfam bookshop in Chester. Looks like a good read.
I was v.influenced by a couple of books of Orwells essays and Animal Farm. Not a big fan of 1984 though.
Slogging through Ragged Trousered Philanphropists having heard so many people say how it influenced their politics. Pretty good read but I'm surprised so many people stuck it out to the end.
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - cold hard and moving
Crime and Punishment - pretty much my favourate book ever so far
Wuthering Heights / Little Women - read at 8 ... gave me a stupid view of romance
Another book which also opened my mind was The Death of Ivan Ilyich - helped me understand dying from the dyings point of view. I think everyone should read it.
Crime and Punishment - pretty much my favourate book ever so far
Wuthering Heights / Little Women - read at 8 ... gave me a stupid view of romance
Another book which also opened my mind was The Death of Ivan Ilyich - helped me understand dying from the dyings point of view. I think everyone should read it.
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The Social Contract - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Profession of Violence: Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins - John Pearson
Letters To A Young Contratrian - Christopher Hitchens
And 'London Fields' by Martin Amis. Was a Duranie and read a Simon LeBon interview where he said he'd enjoyed 'Money' by Amis so, being the devotee I was, off I trotted to the bookshop to get a copy but 'London Fields' caught my eye instead. And that was the book that got me into reading. Still play darts to this day.
Profession of Violence: Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins - John Pearson
Letters To A Young Contratrian - Christopher Hitchens
And 'London Fields' by Martin Amis. Was a Duranie and read a Simon LeBon interview where he said he'd enjoyed 'Money' by Amis so, being the devotee I was, off I trotted to the bookshop to get a copy but 'London Fields' caught my eye instead. And that was the book that got me into reading. Still play darts to this day.
ginger_syn
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Two books influenced me,Prince Caspian by C.S.Lewis and Watership Down by Richard thingy,bugger I've lost his name 
anyway you know who I mean 
these two book got me into books big time as a child
anyway you know who I mean these two book got me into books big time as a child
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Donna Ferentes said:
Ooo, damn good book that.
An addition to my list; Asimov, namely his books the Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun and the twoo others following that in the series. Not quite in such an overt way as others but certain things within the book got under my skin.
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yes thank you. total blank on the last name there.weird feelingbelboid said:
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