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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2012, 03:28:38 pm »
Spalding Gray's "Impossible Vacation" is probably my favorite...

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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #16 on: June 10, 2012, 06:25:23 pm »
Definitely The Art of War by Sun Tzu.  Some people don't consider it a book so much as a written work on military strategy and tactics, but I discovered it in book form so that's my it's my favorite book.  Other works are The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, Brewing For Dummies, The Sound of the Beast by Ian Christe, and the Harry Potter series(I'm a nerd for that, okay!).  I like alot of books, but these are just to name a few.
Have you ever read The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli?  Not as well known as his more popular The Prince, but still an interesting treatise on warfare during Machiavelli's time in the Italian areas of Europe.

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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #17 on: June 10, 2012, 09:04:14 pm »
"The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan is probably the most useful non-fiction I've ever read. Its an excellent guide to critical and scientific thinking, and well worth a read. Its also a very easy read, and very entertaining. The account of crop circles is especially amusing.

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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2012, 11:54:09 pm »
My favorite book is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2012, 07:22:00 pm »
I was soooo into Harry Potter & the Dark Materials books. Then i read Catcher in the Rye which is kind of an emo thing to do lol

But my fav book now is The Great Gatsby. Jus read it for the 2nd time & its just amazing. I wanna go to his parties & swim nude in his pool lol. Long as hes not lyin dead in it.

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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2012, 07:37:11 pm »
Oh and John Greens books are amazing. Esp 'The Fault in our Stars'
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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #21 on: October 27, 2012, 10:28:46 pm »
I was soooo into Harry Potter & the Dark Materials books. Then i read Catcher in the Rye which is kind of an emo thing to do lol

But my fav book now is The Great Gatsby. Jus read it for the 2nd time & its just amazing. I wanna go to his parties & swim nude in his pool lol. Long as hes not lyin dead in it.

Catcher in the Rye is far from an emo thing.... I first read the novel when I was in my early teens, then again in my early twenties, mid twenties and so on.... thus far I continue to see new things in Holden's story.

For me this is a test of a truly remarkable piece of writing, that the story is a reflection of your self, that changes and evolves with you... 

I recommend you read it again and again in your life, I know I will.

Great Gatsby is also incredible.

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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #22 on: October 27, 2012, 10:34:55 pm »
I was at dinner with a friend last night and we were discussing this very topic. I cannot go Past John Fowels "the Magus" following Nicolas through his psychological torture and the game playing of Conchis I could almost find or loose myself in Nicolas' character.

I have only read one of the two novels of the same from Fowels as he rewrote it after the original publication.

A truly amazing and engaging read. Another I will revisit many times in my life.

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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2012, 03:58:55 pm »
my absolute favorite book is "Der Schwarm" (The swarm) from "Frank Schätzing". I don't if it is that popular in other countries but it is in Germany. They are planning a movie which will be 4h minimum... :D

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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #24 on: October 30, 2012, 08:45:38 pm »
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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #25 on: November 30, 2012, 02:08:46 am »
"Huckleberry Finn." First book I read by Mark Twain and loved it.
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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #26 on: November 30, 2012, 03:10:00 am »
The Foxfire series is pretty amazing, if you're interested in Appalachian culture.

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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #27 on: December 07, 2012, 08:03:12 pm »
For the moment "The Angel's game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
I bought a copy from a little stand in Helsinki railwaystation and I read it to the end before I was in hometown. It was so good.

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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #28 on: December 09, 2012, 06:37:33 pm »
For the moment "The Angel's game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
I bought a copy from a little stand in Helsinki railwaystation and I read it to the end before I was in hometown. It was so good.

If you haven't already, pick up "Shadow of the winf" by the same author; it's even better !
And then you've got "Prisoner of heaven", which reunites characters from both books to bring the trilogy to a close:)

I have them both and I love them both, but "the Angel's game" is closer to my heart somehow. Maybe because its the first one that defines the whole setting and the limits. The supernatural elements, when the Devil asks the writer to write a book for him. It was just ... I don't have the words. The second one was good too, strong emotions without the supernatural. It was and is a very good book.

I have yet to read the third, I saw it at display in bookstore, but I didn't dare to buy it yet. Lately money has been an issue. :(
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Re: What's your favorite book?
« Reply #29 on: January 09, 2013, 06:45:21 pm »
mine has always been between Harry Potter series and the Lemony Snicket series
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