Favorite Book?

rbmorris

Vampyroteuthis

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26 Nov 06 08:16

rbmorris

Vampyroteuthis

Infernalis

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26 Nov 06 08:16

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Please list your favorite book.

Note: I understand that it may be difficult to come up with your absolute favorite of all time. If that's the case, please list ONE book that really kicked your a$$.

That's all.

I'm going to say...

"Notes From Underground", Dostoyevsky

taipei5200

Lt.

Los Angeles

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26 Nov 06 09:06

My favorite book is:
Replay by Ken Grimwood.
Guy drops dead in middle age, wakes up & he's 18 years old again & can recall his previous life. Then he reaches middle age & drops dead again & wakes up & can recall his previous lives...ETC
Like ground hog day

vuelve

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26 Nov 06 09:29

My favourite book is The Fourth Estate by Jeffery Archer.
Since I am a screenwriter never saw such book with great story development and charactersketch. Great learning.

AThousandYoung

Like a jungle

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26 Nov 06 09:55

Foundation series
Camulod Chronicles
Ender's Game
DragonLance Legends

Mephisto2

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26 Nov 06 09:59

Defintitely Dostoievski, but different works:
1) crime and punishment
2) the idiot
3) the gambler
4) the brothers Karamazov
5) white nights (short stories)

minutiae70

Sydney, Australia

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26 Nov 06 10:56

Only one....Wow, I cant decide. Should I go with something from my past which will always be in my top 5 or something i recently read that had an effect. And then there is fiction and non-fiction..... I know, I am stating the obvious (just distracting myself while I choose).

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

taipei5200

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26 Nov 06 13:44

Wow, this forum lacks book readers.
Probably it's either comic books or how to win with 1. e4

Jee

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26 Nov 06 13:50

Originally posted by taipei5200
Wow, this forum lacks book readers.
Probably it's either comic books or how to win with 1. e4

Hard to pick just one book.

Everything from Yasunari Kawabata.

And I don't mean every book, I mean every line. Most sensual writing ever, if you ask me. I've only read it so far in French, but I am moving in a month to Japan and hopefully stay there long enough to be able to read it in Japanese.

Mad about haikus too. Reading that beat taking drugs, believe me!

Ragnorak

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26 Nov 06 13:50

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Originally posted by taipei5200
Wow, this forum lacks book readers.
Probably it's either comic books or how to win with 1. e4

Shantaram is a very good book. My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is good as well.

D

richfeet

cleveland ohio

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26 Nov 06 14:11

Roots by Alex Haley The saga of an American Family

Amaurote

No Name Maddox

County Doledrum

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26 Nov 06 14:21

Under Western Eyes by Conrad, although it's tough choosing between that, Lord Jim and Victory at the best of times.

~~reinfeld~~

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26 Nov 06 14:34

Emma, by Jane Austen....why...because i would like to see a world where
there were still class distinctions and good manners...

Mephisto2

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26 Nov 06 14:42

Originally posted by reinfeld
Emma, by Jane Austen....why...because i would like to see a world where
there were still class distinctions and good manners...

Your profile says it all.

Amaurote

No Name Maddox

County Doledrum

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26 Nov 06 14:46

Originally posted by reinfeld
i would like to see a world where there were still class distinctions and good manners...

Well, one out of two isn't too bad.

Nordlys

The sky

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26 Nov 06 14:48

Originally posted by taipei5200
Wow, this forum lacks book readers.

How did you come to that conclusion? I, for example, just cannot decide which book to choose, so I refrain.