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RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭✭✭
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We'll it's no surprise to most who know me I tend to start a contest when I'm 3 sheets to the wind and this is no different.  So here it is. 
What is my favorite book? I've read this book no less than 5 times and ready to do it again. 
2 hints it's fiction and was published between the years 1974-1976.
GO!

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  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2017
    I'll go with Watership Down.

    Well, it was either that or Joys of S e x. LOL!
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • IndustMechIndustMech Posts: 4,931 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jaws.

    Just watched the movie.

    I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
    Let's eat, GrandMa.  /  Let's eat GrandMa.  --  Punctuation saves lives
    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Debbie Does Dallas?
    Oh wait. Books. Forgot.
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    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    A little dirt never hurt
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Moby ****                        
    
                        
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            The Great Train Robbery                        
    
                        
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

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                            One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest                        
    
                        
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Dianetics
    I hope I am wrong!                         
    
                        
    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            On its way @silvermouse 
    9500112261287241149997
    Hope you enjoy                        
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            I have read all the books in that series several times.  Good ones, from shogun, to whirlwind.
    I didn't care much for king rat, but was still good.
    Tai-pan was my favorite.                        
    
                        
    The higher.......the fewer.  ( Alexander Rozhenko)

     What you can't forgive......you will become.
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    Sketch6995 said:
    
  
    I have read all the books in that series several times.  Good ones, from shogun, to whirlwind.
    I didn't care much for king rat, but was still good.
    Tai-pan was my favorite.
    

    
I just recently reread Tai-Pan. I don't think I've read King Rat.                         
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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                            Hahaha You're lucky you don't have OCD.
    I Have to read them in order lol......But I'm getting better, I don't have to flick the light switch on and off while I read anymore  :D                        
    
                        
    The higher.......the fewer.  ( Alexander Rozhenko)

     What you can't forgive......you will become.
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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