What books have you read more then once?

006

what books were so good that you had to read again!

so far-
Donna Tart- Secret history
Stephen king-the stand

arbeitsscheuer

Too many to mention, so I'll just say the books I've read more than the rest. (And also those I can actually remember rite now! )

Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
Fever Pitch, About A Boy, and High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Dark Half - Stephen King
Fatherland - Robert Harris
SS-GB, and Goodbye, Mickey Mouse - Len Deighton
A Piece of Cake, Hornets Sting, Goshawk Squadron, and A Good Clean Fight - Derek Robinson

I generally have to read the same books over and over cos I just don't have the money to get the most recent books these days

Tar.Aldarion

eh like a thousand but i have read all of tolkiens books oh a hundred times.the discword series a lot too.His dark materials trilogy by phillip pullman is another mass read by me

Easily_Irritated

Loads and loads

The catcher in the rye
Animal Farm
Filth
Catch 22
Terry Pratchett (all that needs to be said)
Tolkein
The Hitchhikers guide

oh so many....

Johnny Storm

Years ago I used to read every book I bought several times (unless it was crap) but here's a few that I nearly wore out by rereading (and that I can still remember LOL):
Catch 22
Portnoy's Complaint
A Clockwork Orange
Pretty much every book by Philip K Dick (well I've read Flow my tears the policeman said, A Scanner Darkly, A maze of death, Ubik, Clans of the Alphane Moon, the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, the introduction to the Golden Man the most times but all of them many times)
The Divine Invasion by Laurence Sutin (bio of PKD)
Junkie by William Burroughs
Dune
Ringwold by Larry Niven
Transreal by Rudy Rucker
Illuminatus! by Wilson and Shea

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

every one I have?

dudara

I think that I have close on a thousand books, so I don't get to re-read too many. However, there are a few that I just adore and would re-read many times

The End of the Affair- Graham Greene
Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
Lolita - Guy Naborov
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
East of Eden - Steinbeck
The hobbit and Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

lacuna

There are so many books on my list to read that I really don't get the chance to reread anything. If I had more time and less books to read then I'd definitly read Donna Tartt - The Secret History, Sebastian Faulks - Girl At The Lion D'Or, Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea, Danzy Senna - From Caucasia With Love (more of a teenagers book but I loved it). There are so many more but those are a handful that spring to mind at the moment.

Unit00

Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
Cosmopolis- Don Delillo

simu

Brothers Karamazov - 2 different translations to English. Was interesting (great book too, btw!)

meditraitor

Hitchikers Guide
The Magician

Trojan

I've read almost every book I've ever owned more than once - I generally go back a couple of years later and re-read.

skittishkitten

:eek: You can read them again !?


Actually it's been years since I've reread any of my books. And I can't even remember which of those it was. Guess I need to start over again and read them all one more time. Wonder how much of the story will be changed ........ from the way I remember it .


~

Kenshi

I never get around to it. It is just to hard. I am more interested in reading something new. That's why I joined the library which is what "SebtheBum" should do. I would read some again but it's better just to read new books I think.

shuushh

last exit to brooklyn and catcher in the rye ive read those both a few times

grimloch

I've read the Lord of the Rings quite a few times at this stage now. If I read a good book I might have a re-read of it maybe a year down the road if I'm stuck for anything.

Kaboogie

I have read The Lord of the Rings twice.
The first time about 30 years ago and a few years ago.

theCzar

The ones i liked.

_blank_

A Clockwork Orange
Hitchhikers Guide
Dirk Gently x 2
Nineteen-eighty-four
Brave New World
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Bible :eek:
Some Roald Dahl books
Alice In Wonderland (my all time fave)

Lots of others too

arbeitsscheuer

seansouth wrote:

Nineteen-eighty-four
Brave New World
Some Roald Dahl books

Yeah, same.
Also, Island by Aldous Huxley.

echomadman

Mordeth wrote:

every one I have?

same here

Johnny Storm

One I forgot was "Fear and Loathing In Los Vegas" - LOL
At one time I used to practically know that one off by heart.
As the man himself said "I hate to recommend sex, drugs and violence to anybody...but they've always worked for me"

byte

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
e - Matt Beaumont
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About - Mil Millington

OfflerCrocGod

Mordeth wrote:

every one I have?

Ditto. I only buy a book if I think I can re-read it.

Tar.Aldarion

i thought every book you had was a given
just put up the very best of them.

Dar

Pretty much every good book I've ever read. If it's not worth re-reading, its not a good book .

arbeitsscheuer

byte wrote:

e - Matt Beaumont

Lol, that's a great little book. Only read it once tho, through no fault of my own - it was my sister's copy, so I gave it a read. Wicked.

P.S. Have you read the sequel "An e before Christmas"? That's deadly as well.

Branoic

Dune - read about 4 times
Magician - Read 3 times
Ash: A Sectret History - Read twice

There are other books that I love which I have started to read a second time, but i find with most of them I only get about half way through.

Calina

SebtheBum wrote:

Lol, that's a great little book. Only read it once tho, through no fault of my own - it was my sister's copy, so I gave it a read. Wicked.

P.S. Have you read the sequel "An e before Christmas"? That's deadly as well.

funnything about those ones - the first time I read them, I thought they were great fun, second time...but I was looking at them again recently and I thought they had aged kind of badly.

Tobias Greeshman

Sum Of All Fears - Tom Clancy (If only the film was even half as good)

arbeitsscheuer

silas wrote:

Sum Of All Fears - Tom Clancy (If only the film was even half as good)

Agreed. *Shudders* The Film took a great premise from the book, and then systematically raped it to death, leaving nothing but the (always irritating) Ben Affleck in it's ruins.

I've read all of Clancy's books pre-2000, (Patriot Games excepted - man, that was sh*t), over and over.
But when Bush became president it all seemed to close to reality - Clancy's books were ok in fiction, but that's where they should stay. :rolleyes:

Other books:
Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day
Zeno - The Cauldron
Dunno if I said these earlier, but all Nick Hornby and Roddy Doyle books. So entertaining.

Beebox

Watership Down.