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A book that changed your life.
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I'm with Ricky T on this one
Disgruntledgoat
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So many to choose from...
Brian Jacques original Redwall trilogy gave me a real love of reading
Trainspotting showed me what you could do with narrative.
Not a big fiction guy these days but about 20 years ago David Remnick's King of the World and Tim Krabbe's De Renner made me want to write about sport and that's been the guiding light in my life, for better or worse, ever since.
Brian Jacques original Redwall trilogy gave me a real love of reading
Trainspotting showed me what you could do with narrative.
Not a big fiction guy these days but about 20 years ago David Remnick's King of the World and Tim Krabbe's De Renner made me want to write about sport and that's been the guiding light in my life, for better or worse, ever since.
Charlotte's Web. Read it as a kid, and the death at the end of the book had me in tears and and helped shape my thoughts about impermanence.
4737carlin
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The Bible
tsubaki
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A book called "Timeless Legends" that I was given when I was very young.
I don't remember all the stories in it but there was definately Horatius Cocles defending the bridge single-handedly against the Etruscans, Rodrigo and the Jewelled Tower and the Song of Roland and ever since then I've been obsessed by it (history).
I don't remember all the stories in it but there was definately Horatius Cocles defending the bridge single-handedly against the Etruscans, Rodrigo and the Jewelled Tower and the Song of Roland and ever since then I've been obsessed by it (history).
tim gabbott
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Razzel 1983 
Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe
(Seriously. It was published in the 70s and apparently inspired the title of the better-known Galaxy.)
(Seriously. It was published in the 70s and apparently inspired the title of the better-known Galaxy.)
Methuselah
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The Naked Island by Russell Braddon. An Aussie soldier who was caught up in the fall of Singapore in WW2. Ended up on the infamous Railway. I read it while I was stationed in Singapore, less than 10 years from the end of the war.
....not sure about changing my life, but I loved ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ when I first read it, particularly it’s values of respect and decency. Glad to say it’s also a favourite of my daughter.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Off topic, but more people nowadays should read this.
This one for me as a kid - it’s just so beautifully written and just hooked me from start to finish.
This one as a teenager - it’s still one of my all time favourite books.
Incredibly dark, brutal and with an ending like no other.
Shaped my future reading as an adult.
The binman chronicles
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Madame Bovary. Ever since I read it I have been riding around Paris in my horse-drawn carriage looking for eligible rich men to have illicit affairs with. So far no luck.
But seriously, what I took from it was the fact you can get everything on credit and live beyond your means.
But seriously, what I took from it was the fact you can get everything on credit and live beyond your means.
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