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Post by clytie on Oct 3, 2014 20:47:30 GMT -5
White Oleander by Janet Fitch. I think I've read it around 50 times. It's so beautifully written.
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Post by Murray the Demonic Skull on Oct 4, 2014 14:44:33 GMT -5
I re-read books a lot and I often feels guilty about it (so many new books I should read instead !). For me it would be the "Karla Trilogy" by John Le Carré (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy : The Hnourable Schoolboy and Smiley's people) . There's something that I love about the character of Smiley and the dusty offices of the Circus during the Cold War.
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Post by Paleu on Oct 4, 2014 16:21:29 GMT -5
Man, I feel really humbled by all the people who have reread stuff up to ten or more times. I'm not sure there's a book longer than ten pages that I've read more than thrice. I avoid rereading stuff because there are so many things that I haven't read and shouldn't I be checking that stuff out instead of rereading this book again? as well as an old bias against all those people in Elementary School who just reread Harry Potter seven, eight or nine times instead of picking up something else and expanding their goddamn horizons (which I doubt applies to people in this thread who've reread Harry Potter that many times and is a dumb reason to avoid rereading things besides).
Of the stuff I have reread I think The Great Gatsby sticks out the most in my memory, since it's pretty much perfect (fuck the haters) and I'm considering rereading it again because of this thread. I've also been checking out all the Philip K Dick I haven't read lately so at some point I plan on rereading the stuff I have, starting with Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2014 19:02:04 GMT -5
Today at the farmers market there was a little boy, maybe 7 years old, slowly following his parents around with his nose buried in a book. I saw that it was a much-loved and tattered book, but couldn't make out which one. Eventually they worked their way over to my table and I saw that he was reading Charlotte's Web. I wanted to give him a hundred hugs.
Anyway, it reminded me that I had (still have!) a hardback collection of Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan that I read over and over and over when I was a kid.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Feb 7, 2017 15:04:46 GMT -5
Hmm, I'm not entirely sure. Depends on my mood. I'm a fast reader, too, so re-reading can be done quickly for me. Sometimes some Shakespeare. Sometimes Borges "Ficciones". I cannot get enough of those stories. They are so freaking fun. I think I've now read "The Great Gatsby" about 5 times. I've re-read some of Bujold's Vorkosigan books a lot, 5-8 times? I've probably read Elizabeth Peters "Crocodile on the Sandbank" nearly 10 times. Re-read both Harry Potter and LOTR quite a lot. Way more than I care to admit. Let's say, I've read LOTR a tad fewer times than Christopher Lee. I'm resurrecting this thread! Seconded on the Vorkosigan series (my favorites are the run from Memory to A Civil Campaign, and I love Captain Vorpatril's Alliance) and Elizabeth Peters. I've actually started re-reading the Amelia Peabody series because evidently there's a final one coming out which was finished by Joan Hess. I also often re-read Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, Calvin and Hobbes, most of the Discworld books, and Good Omens. |
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Feb 7, 2017 18:35:17 GMT -5
Most recently I've reread Ghostwritten by David Mitchell a few times.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 7, 2017 18:37:19 GMT -5
I can't think of anything completely unrepresented here - HHGTTG, Vimes books, Small Gods, Good Omens are all up there.
If we include comics in the mix, Nextwave has become one of my de-stress books. Much of the Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four. Jack Cole and Kyle Baker's runs on Plastic Man. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? and All-Star Superman as well, especially when I need some anti-Snyder to counteract the Snyder.
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Post by Celebith on Feb 8, 2017 12:06:23 GMT -5
I know I've mentioned it before, but beyond a doubt, A Wrinkle In Time. I read it about 50 times over the course of one week when I was a kid, just starting over again when I got to the end, and a bunch of times since then. There are some other books - The Black Company series, Dune, Amber, LotR and other long-running F/SF that I've re-read as new books in the series came out, or just to re-read, but nothing like A Wrinkle in Time.
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Post by nowimnothing on Feb 12, 2017 11:13:58 GMT -5
Like others I used to re-read a lot more as a kid. From about book 6 or so I would re-read all the preceding Wheel of Time books whenever a new one came out. So I have read some in that series 4-5 times (I held off after he died and waited for Sanderson finished the last three before one last full re-read.) Right now I have been re-reading some Robert McCammon. I read those several times as a teen, but I had not revisited them until now. I am surprised how little I remember and how well they hold up. This means I can probably start to revisit some select King and Koontz too.
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Post by Trurl on Feb 19, 2017 16:58:04 GMT -5
Hmm, I'm not entirely sure. Depends on my mood. I'm a fast reader, too, so re-reading can be done quickly for me. Sometimes some Shakespeare. Sometimes Borges "Ficciones". I cannot get enough of those stories. They are so freaking fun. I think I've now read "The Great Gatsby" about 5 times. I've re-read some of Bujold's Vorkosigan books a lot, 5-8 times? I've probably read Elizabeth Peters "Crocodile on the Sandbank" nearly 10 times. Re-read both Harry Potter and LOTR quite a lot. Way more than I care to admit. Let's say, I've read LOTR a tad fewer times than Christopher Lee. I'm resurrecting this thread! Seconded on the Vorkosigan series (my favorites are the run from Memory to A Civil Campaign, and I love Captain Vorpatril's Alliance) and Elizabeth Peters. I've actually started re-reading the Amelia Peabody series because evidently there's a final one coming out which was finished by Joan Hess. I also often re-read Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, Calvin and Hobbes, most of the Discworld books, and Good Omens. Oooh, I just read the bulk of the Vorkosigan books last year, first time since the 90s. They really do stand up, they're a great bunch of books. |
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Post by Wallet Inspector on Sept 16, 2017 18:44:19 GMT -5
I definitely don't reread books as much as rewatch movies, but the one I've probably reread most is A Wild Sheep Chase.
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 17, 2017 3:08:04 GMT -5
The authors I reread the fastest are Stephen King and Martin Amis. A new book of theirs will most likely be started pretty soon after the day of publication and reread within a year or 18 months - unless it's an outright dud like the Mr Mercedes trilogy.
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Post by louiebb on Sept 17, 2017 8:58:10 GMT -5
Yay for threads back from the dead! My most re-read is probably James Clavell's Shogun. Something about that book makes it just very easy for me to pick up and get into. Probably helps that it's semi-historical.
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Post by Sanziana on Dec 17, 2017 10:55:30 GMT -5
I don't re-read books anymore as I am a slow reader and I don't even have the time to read all I want to read, never mind re-reading stuff I liked. When I was a kid I know I re-read a lot of Jules Verne, I was obsessed with that guy, and The Three Musketeers, later Harry Potter. I never re-read LoTR though, to my shame, I just get bored.
The only book I re-read recently was Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. I feel a certain connection to that book, for some reason.
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