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Offline Algerianbania

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Favorite Book
« on: August 25, 2007, 07:57:50 PM »
It seems fitting to start this board with a favorite books thread. So, mine is the Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2007, 08:34:08 PM »
All of the Biff, Chip and Kipper books!
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2007, 09:21:49 PM »
The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2007, 09:50:36 PM »
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Noel Adams

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2007, 10:11:59 PM »
A Small Death In Lisbon - Robert Wilson

I've read this in Portuguese when i was younger and loved it. Two stories that merge in modern times, has allot of basis in real facts.

1 of the stories is during WWII, involves a German SS Officer, the other is in modern times and is about a Polícia Judiciária (Judiciary Police(man), something like FBI, but here they are policemen too) investigating a murderer. Very good one, and you get to know something about Portugal. I deeply advise you to buy or search about Lisbon places that come in the book, the description is perfect when you know Lisbon. Lisbon isn't like many of other metropolis, each street is different from each other, and we have living history on the streets, so each street is identifiable, and the writer used that in his book.

Is surely one of the best books I've read, I don't know if it's the best of all or my favourite...
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2007, 12:46:27 AM »
What do you think my favorite book is?
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2007, 01:01:58 AM »
Quote from: Libertarian Monarchy of Myroria on August 27, 2007, 12:46:27 AM
What do you think my favorite book is?
Wealth of Nations? ;D

For me, it's a three-way tie.
The Phantom of the Opera, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and The Hunt for Red October.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2007, 01:05:09 AM »
Funny, I always thought of you as a big V for Vendetta guy.

And no, my favorite book is clearly Das Kapital. Duh. :P
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2007, 03:57:44 AM »
Quote from: Libertarian Monarchy of Myroria on August 27, 2007, 01:05:09 AM
Funny, I always thought of you as a big V for Vendetta guy.
Don't get me wrong, I love V for Vendetta, but I didn't know we were allowed to include graphic novels...if we can add VfV to my list, along with 1984.

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And no, my favorite book is clearly Das Kapital. Duh. :P
Of course, how could I have missed that one?
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2007, 04:08:19 AM »
do picture books count
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2007, 05:22:15 AM »
Thinking more about it, it might just be Crime and Punishment.  I love that style, mixing dialogue and action with internal monologues.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2007, 05:43:12 PM »
Quote from: Inglo-Scotia on August 27, 2007, 03:57:44 AM
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Don't get me wrong, I love V for Vendetta, but I didn't know we were allowed to include graphic novels...if we can add VfV to my list, along with 1984.


1984 isnt a graphic novel
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2007, 05:53:14 PM »
Maxim, the issue where they had the female Israeli ex-soldiers.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2007, 11:18:58 PM »
Quote from: Solnath on August 27, 2007, 05:53:14 PM
Maxim, the issue where they had the female Israeli ex-soldiers.

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Well, first of all, I'm baaaack.

Secondly, the book would be Watchmen by Alan Moore (technically a graphic novel, I know, but...)
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2007, 03:26:57 AM »
well i prefer playboy
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