FabSwingers.com forum: 12 books that changed the world

By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Which would you pick?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Elvis what happened

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

50 shades of bullshit changed the world...

I mean, it was utter shite but it definitely changed things.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The bible

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By *osie xWoman
over a year ago

wolverhampton

I think most religious texts are the big contenders but for me it was an Edgar Allan Poe compendium

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

Epic of Gilgamesh

The bible

On the origin of species

Principica

The republic

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

A vindication of the rights of woman - Mary Wollstonecraft

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The cumunist man-fister, hairy popper and the half boned princess and

Argos catalogue

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Magna Carta

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not so deep as the previous suggestions, but I’d say the Harry Potter saga has had a huge impact.

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By *MP3Man
over a year ago

Between Scylla and Charybdis

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche. If he hadn't written that the twentieth century may have moved in a different direction.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

On the abolition of the slave trade - William Wilberforce

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

To kill a mockingbird

The red Room

Crime and punishment

The trial

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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Origin of Species

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Origin of Species "

Ahem!

On the origin of species.

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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"Origin of Species

Ahem!

On the origin of species."

Thank you x

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Epic of Gilgamesh

The bible

On the origin of species

Principica

The republic "

Principia Mathematica?

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"Origin of Species

Ahem!

On the origin of species."

Ahem!

On the origin of species by means of natural selection.

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By *eryCuriousCouple2012Couple
over a year ago

Funville

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

"Epic of Gilgamesh

The bible

On the origin of species

Principica

The republic

Principia Mathematica?"

Sorry yes, Isaac Newton

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By *musedforlifeMan
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

1984 and Animal Farm

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Origin of Species

Ahem!

On the origin of species.

Ahem!

On the origin of species by means of natural selection."

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

1. Mikhail Bulgarkov - The Master and Margarita

2. Marxs and Engels - Das Capital

3. John Gray - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

4. Dale Carnegie - How to win friends and influence people

5. Harper Lee - To kill a Mocking Bird

6. George Orwell - 1984

7. Franz Kafka - The Trial

8. Ernest Hemingway - The old man and the sea

9. John Irving - The world according to Garp

10. Dorothy Allison - The Bastard out of Carolina

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Superman...he changed everything xD

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"Origin of Species

Ahem!

On the origin of species.

Ahem!

On the origin of species by means of natural selection.

Ahem!

On the origin of species by means of natural selection by Charles Darwin

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"1. Mikhail Bulgarkov - The Master and Margarita

2. Marxs and Engels - Das Capital

3. John Gray - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

4. Dale Carnegie - How to win friends and influence people

5. Harper Lee - To kill a Mocking Bird

6. George Orwell - 1984

7. Franz Kafka - The Trial

8. Ernest Hemingway - The old man and the sea

9. John Irving - The world according to Garp

10. Dorothy Allison - The Bastard out of Carolina"

I asked for 12.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Joy of Sex...

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By *MP3Man
over a year ago

Between Scylla and Charybdis

"Superman...he changed everything xD"

He did. Thus Spake Zarathustra...

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

The rule book of association football.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Joy of Sex..."

Volumes 1-12

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

The interpretation of dreams- Sigmund Freud

Elements - Euclid

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin

The complete works of Shakespeare

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

"1. Mikhail Bulgarkov - The Master and Margarita

2. Marxs and Engels - Das Capital

3. John Gray - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

4. Dale Carnegie - How to win friends and influence people

5. Harper Lee - To kill a Mocking Bird

6. George Orwell - 1984

7. Franz Kafka - The Trial

8. Ernest Hemingway - The old man and the sea

9. John Irving - The world according to Garp

10. Dorothy Allison - The Bastard out of Carolina

I asked for 12.

Well I thought that would be obvious - The Bible and the Quran.....

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

Experimental researches in electricity - Michael Faraday

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"1. Mikhail Bulgarkov - The Master and Margarita

2. Marxs and Engels - Das Capital

3. John Gray - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

4. Dale Carnegie - How to win friends and influence people

5. Harper Lee - To kill a Mocking Bird

6. George Orwell - 1984

7. Franz Kafka - The Trial

8. Ernest Hemingway - The old man and the sea

9. John Irving - The world according to Garp

10. Dorothy Allison - The Bastard out of Carolina

I asked for 12.

Well I thought that would be obvious - The Bible and the Quran.....

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

The communist manifesto - Karl Marx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Xaviera Hollander : The Happy Hooker

It sure opened my teenage eyes to sex and sexuality

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations - Adam Smith

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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Mein Kampf as horrible as it sounds

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Superman...he changed everything xD

He did. Thus Spake Zarathustra..."

Along with Marxx

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

2. Marxs and Engels - Das Capital

Marx and Engels wrote the Communist manifesto, Marx wrote Das Kapital.

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

The wealth of nations - Adam Smith

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By *musedforlifeMan
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"The communist manifesto - Karl Marx "

And Engels

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

"An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations - Adam Smith"

Hahaha, snap

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

2. Marxs and Engels - Das Capital

Marx and Engels wrote the Communist manifesto, Marx wrote Das Kapital."

parts II and III were published by his friend Engels after his death from his notes....

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

2. Marxs and Engels - Das Capital

Marx and Engels wrote the Communist manifesto, Marx wrote Das Kapital.

parts II and III were published by his friend Engels after his death from his notes...."

he didn't die from his notes....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

pop up book,,the life n times of Mikki Maraschino

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations - Adam Smith

Hahaha, snap"

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations - Adam Smith

Hahaha, snap

Melvyn Bragg fan?

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

2. Marxs and Engels - Das Capital

Marx and Engels wrote the Communist manifesto, Marx wrote Das Kapital.

parts II and III were published by his friend Engels after his death from his notes....

he didn't die from his notes....

Noted

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

The little red book - Mao Tse-tung

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

"Which would you pick?"

Maybe not change the world but The Lord of the Rings is pretty much the inspiration for every single fantasy book/story/world that came after it.

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

oh and I forgot the Art of War by Sun Tzu, which strangely I am currently reading

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

"An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations - Adam Smith

Hahaha, snap

Melvyn Bragg fan?"

I like him a lot.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"The little red book - Mao Tse-tung"

Let’s have Pinyin and not Wade Giles and go with Mao Zedong.

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"oh and I forgot the Art of War by Sun Tzu, which strangely I am currently reading

Snap. Mines out too!!

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own

The Mr & Mrs men series of books.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

im the only truly straight guy on fab,,,by vine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here here .....

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

"oh and I forgot the Art of War by Sun Tzu, which strangely I am currently reading

Snap. Mines out too!!"

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Which would you pick?

Maybe not change the world but The Lord of the Rings is pretty much the inspiration for every single fantasy book/story/world that came after it. "

Amen

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

"im the only truly straight guy on fab,,,by vine"

Hahaha, you could turn me Mikki!!

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"oh and I forgot the Art of War by Sun Tzu, which strangely I am currently reading

Snap. Mines out too!!

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”"

I’m clumsy and rotund. I always fall like a thunderbolt.

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By *ecadent_DevonMan
over a year ago

Okehampton

"oh and I forgot the Art of War by Sun Tzu, which strangely I am currently reading

Snap. Mines out too!!

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

I’m clumsy and rotund. I always fall like a thunderbolt."

If Sun Tzu had met you he would have written a different book

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"im the only truly straight guy on fab,,,by vine

Hahaha, you could turn me Mikki!! "

ialmost put bi vine

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By *stella OP Woman
over a year ago

London

"oh and I forgot the Art of War by Sun Tzu, which strangely I am currently reading

Snap. Mines out too!!

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

I’m clumsy and rotund. I always fall like a thunderbolt.

If Sun Tzu had met you he would have written a different book

I’m not sure that’s a compliment!

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By *musedforlifeMan
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"The little red book - Mao Tse-tung"

Heidi Fleiss' - Little Black Book

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

People...all books are shadowed by one book...that's changed the world...and still has a massive impact on EVERY human being xD

And it's already been mentioned.

Bible. By God

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By *musedforlifeMan
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"People...all books are shadowed by one book...that's changed the world...and still has a massive impact on EVERY human being xD

And it's already been mentioned.

Bible. By God"

Possibly the greatest work of fiction.

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By *musedforlifeMan
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"People...all books are shadowed by one book...that's changed the world...and still has a massive impact on EVERY human being xD

And it's already been mentioned.

Bible. By God

Possibly the greatest work of fiction."

Or worst......

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"People...all books are shadowed by one book...that's changed the world...and still has a massive impact on EVERY human being xD

And it's already been mentioned.

Bible. By God"

That's 66 not 12 Shirley?

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

"People...all books are shadowed by one book...that's changed the world...and still has a massive impact on EVERY human being xD

And it's already been mentioned.

Bible. By God"

I would question the author, but I agree it’s probably had more impact on the world than any other collection of writings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The ladybird book of ...

Without which I probably wouldn't have learned to read so none of the others would have made a difference.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"People...all books are shadowed by one book...that's changed the world...and still has a massive impact on EVERY human being xD

And it's already been mentioned.

Bible. By God

I would question the author, but I agree it’s probably had more impact on the world than any other collection of writings. "

God is real, ever seen family guy?

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By *MP3Man
over a year ago

Between Scylla and Charybdis

"People...all books are shadowed by one book...that's changed the world...and still has a massive impact on EVERY human being xD

And it's already been mentioned.

Bible. By God

I would question the author, but I agree it’s probably had more impact on the world than any other collection of writings.

God is real, ever seen family guy?

God is dead. Zarathustra again...

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By *he Devils Daughter!Woman
over a year ago

some where in yorkshire

Used to love Enid Blyton books wen I was a kid!

Just finished 2 of the fifty shades books recently ... oh my

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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"Mein Kampf as horrible as it sounds

I mean that it changed the world , not that i'd pick it to read .....Think i misunderstood the thread , sorry x

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

"People...all books are shadowed by one book...that's changed the world...and still has a massive impact on EVERY human being xD

And it's already been mentioned.

Bible. By God

I would question the author, but I agree it’s probably had more impact on the world than any other collection of writings.

God is real, ever seen family guy?

I believe in the Devine but the bible was written people. Dozens of them, from different countries over several hundred years. I think it’s a fascinating record of the evolution of human consciousness over that time.

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over a year ago

"People...all books are shadowed by one book...that's changed the world...and still has a massive impact on EVERY human being xD

And it's already been mentioned.

Bible. By God

I would question the author, but I agree it’s probably had more impact on the world than any other collection of writings.

God is real, ever seen family guy?

God is dead. Zarathustra again...

Persians are extinct, Caput, sayonara xD

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By *ild_oatsMan
over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners

The Prince by Niccoló Machiavelli

It details the general theme that the aims of politicians and rulers such as glory and survival justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends.

Not much has changed since the 16th century.....

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By *elloIntrigueMan
over a year ago

North West UK

I'm not going quite as high brow... One of the first books that fired my imagination was "The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe" by CS Lewis

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By *ooking4othersMan
over a year ago

Here ...

Encyclopedia Britannica

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By *ohndunboyneMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne & Dublin

Stephen King - The Shining/The Stand/It (plus many others, The Dark Half being his most vicious)

Alex Comfort - The Joy of Sex

Derek Llewellyn Jones - Everywoman

Nancy Friday - My Secret Garden

Anais Nin - Delta of Venus/Henry &June

Henry Miller - The Rosy Cricifixion

Xaviera Hollander - The Happy Hooker

They all had an impact on me anyway

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The life of a small dicked man by Mike Rowcock

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hobbit.

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By *xperimentalistMan
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

The Bible and the Koran, neither in a good way.

Same for the little red book.

Positive Darwin's theory of evolution.

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By *xperimentalistMan
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

"Experimental researches in electricity - Michael Faraday "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The drooping testicle by Dan Gleeballs

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

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