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In Reply to: Books that change our lives. posted by edta on June 13, 2004 at 05:25:42:

Thomas Hardys classic. Nothing profound, just a great story but like generations before me and since any form of literature was ruined at school by endless studying grammatical concepts, sentence structures etc. etc. as if the story being told was of a secondary nature. The result for many of us was a strong distaste for literature of any kind.
5 or 6 years after leaving school i picked up the copy above of Far From The Madding Crowd in a Penguin Classic edition because the wonderful painting on the cover had caught my eye and i started the first page and never stopped. In the 20 years since then i haven't been without a book of some kind close at hand and devour good writing like a hungry man.
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Paul

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Stories are important to us, right? - edta 18:18:38 06/13/04 (0)
Who, what, when, where,how, why, and what happens next. We live half of our lives in the future. We want to know what it could be like.
I know what you mean about literature. I was an English Lit. major who learned to write (somewhat) in school. Some authors are incredibly evocative.
I said that I cut my teeth on Plato and he changed my life. Well, he did. Now that I remember back to when I was a freshman, it was Prof. Johnston and our readings of Aldous Huxley essays that really got me interested in fine writing. I think most of those essays are out of print. I should look them up on ebay.

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