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danceken
12-18-2008, 06:04 PM
I need some recomendations for some favorite action adventure books thanks Kenney
Pecksie
12-29-2008, 06:11 PM
Hmmm... 'The Prisoner of Zenda'?
aBIGsheep
12-29-2008, 06:25 PM
Go dive into a comic book.
Silas Thorne
12-29-2008, 06:49 PM
Scaramouche, by Raphael Sabatini, or indeed anything by him.

Treasure Island, or Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, though you might need a Scots background or a glossary to get some of the brogue in the latter.

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.

Or Alexandre Dumas...Three Musketeers for a start.

I love action adventure. My favourites are Sabatini and Stevenson.Stevenson is terrific at describing characters.
Pecksie
12-30-2008, 07:09 PM
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.



Will second that one. Loved it.
Gustavo L.
12-30-2008, 08:18 PM
Maybe “Musashi”, a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa.
It is partially based on the biography of Japan’s greatest samurai, Miyamoto Musashi. There are a lot of great battles, including one between Musashi alone and a band of 50 warriors (which actually happened).
There’s not just blood, though. Musashi was a painter and a calligrapher as well.


It's a pretty long novel. As a shorter option I suggest "The Song of Roland".:thumbs_up