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Books you've read again and again and again...

patchbunny said:
Armor by John Steakley. Really pings my fantasy buttons
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Oh, man. That's like the Thomas Covenant books - I thought I was the only one who had read it!

Glad to see another fan of that book out there.

CptColumbo said:
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
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Ditto these three. The Killing Joke was great.
 
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Watership Down by Richard Adams
Ulysses by James Joyce
Gravity's Rainbow & Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Lincoln at Gettysburg by Gary Wills
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
October 1964 by David Halberstam
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

I'm a big book nerd.
 
LibraryLady said:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Anne of Green Gables
The Heir of Redclyffe
Gaudy Night/Busman's Honeymoon
Mansfield Park
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Can I ask what you find particularly appealing about Mansfield Park? Austen's books are on my list, but not that one--too soppy.

Otherwise: Malory, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Pearl, Canterbury Tales (well, some of them--I can get by without repeated readings of Melibee). On the other hand, I would never voluntarily read Piers Plowman.

Beowulf, Battle of Maldon, Battle of Brunanburh, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Ruin, Dream of the Rood.

Bunch of sagas, esp. Grettis saga. Bunch of Shakespeare.

First three Hitchhiker's Guide books, Dirk Gently books.

You couldn't pay me to reread LOTR, but I've read The Hobbit a few times.
 
I keep seeing/thinking of books I want to add to my list. I can't always find them when I want them as we have books all over the house, in the garage, and in the shed in the back yard. I keep all books I like, as libraries prune and you can't be sure of finding them again.

  • L.M. Montgomery's books (every 5 years or so I'll reread the Anne books)
  • Elswyth Thane (Tryst, Queen's Folly, the Williamsburg novels) (reread every couple years)
  • Johann Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson (reread every couple years)
  • Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy mysteries and Sister Jane series (reread every year)
  • Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond series and Johnson Johnson mysteries (reread every couple years)
  • Tanya Huff's Valor series (reread every year)
  • Emma Lathen's John Putnam Thatcher series and her Ben Safford series (reread frequently)
  • Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga (I love this series and reread it frequently. A Civil Campaign always makes me laugh out loud.)
 
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I'm laughing at the fact that LOTR is far and away the one most listed here; count me in, too.

My favorites are:

Another roadside attraction
Tom Robbins (and all his other books. He has a distinctive, unique and knee-slapping, belly laughing, outrageous and way over the top satire and wit that has reoccurring subjects of religion and spirituality that he mocks and takes seriously at the same time.

the Complete Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
My first exposure at a young age to logic and rational thinking. It blew me away how he could come up with answers to mysteries by logically deducing them.

Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein
I highly recommend this book to all my friends. This is a superb, humorous and insightful look at social issues and religion from "...Within the framework of his science fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly integrated recognizable social themes: The importance of individual liberty and self-reliance, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress non-conformist thought. He also examined the relationship between physical and emotional love, explored various unorthodox family structures, and speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices."
 
most of my books get re-read at some point, but the ones I go back to most are:

  • Patrick O'Brian's 21 Aubrey/Maturin novels. I've read them all twice and listened to the Audiobooks another two times.
  • Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising' sequence
  • Terry Pratchett - all of them, but the Watch novels in particular
  • 'Genius' - the biography of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
  • Raymond Feist's 'Riftwar' and 'Empire' books, not the later stuff
  • Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels
  • Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels
  • James Herriot's autobiographies
  • Tom Clancy's early stuff - my guilty pleasure
  • Carol O'Connell's 'Mallory' novels
Probably more, but those are the first that come to mind.
 
Gideon Defoe's Pirates in an Adventure with Communists/Scientists/Whaling/Napoleon. Well, I've actually only read the first two more than once, but I will be reading the others over and over again as well.

"Dino-pirates!" a Scientist said. "It's my worst nightmare!"
 
CptColumbo said:
Of fiction
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Spy Who Loved Me, "Octopussy," "The Living Daylights" and "A Quantum of Solace" by Ian Fleming
and
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

of Non-Fiction
The Bounty by Caroline Alexander

of Graphic Novels
The Punisher: Welcome Back Frank by Garth Ennis
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid
The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
The Tomb of Dracula by Marv Wolfman
Maus by Art Spiegelman
All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison
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I like your taste in comics. I love all of those!
 
Lord Of The Rings. 18 times at last count.

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - 1st 5. Several times. Will not ever read the 6th.

The Silmarillion - about half a dozen times.

Most of Pratchetts books.

A few Tom Clancy, but not since I was 17.
 
The first Thomas Covenant series by Donaldson... my first brush with fantasy
Lord of the Rings
Every book by Greg Bear
Every book of Peter F. Hamilton
Every book of Stephen Baxter
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
 
I've read through the Horatio Hornblower series a couple of times.
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I've tried to, but my father won't let the books leave his house. :( I've started my own collection, much to my wife's dismay. :D
 
I grew up on Heinlein. I must read these at least once per year:
Rocket Ship Galileo
Space Cadet
Red Planet
Between Planets
The Puppet Masters
The Rolling Stones
Farmer in the Sky
Starman Jones
The Star Beast
Tunnel in the Sky
Double Star
Time for the Stars
Citizen of the Galaxy
The Door into Summer
Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Starship Troopers
Podkayne of Mars
Glory Road
Farnham's Freehold
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Other regular reads:
The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings
Larry Niven's Oath of Fealty and the Dream Park books
Discworld series
Dragon's Egg by Robert L Forward

I listen to the Harry Potter audio books as I fall asleep. Almost as soon as I finish book 7 I go back and start over again.
 
Dinwar said:
I've tried to, but my father won't let the books leave his house. :( I've started my own collection, much to my wife's dismay. :D
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My set is a hodge-podge.
Lieutenant Hornblower and Beat to Quarters were owned by my dad.
Mister Mid-Shipman Hornblower and Hornblower and the Hotspur I found at a used book store.
The rest are from the same collection I bought at B&N.
 
JerryGarcia said:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Ulysses by James Joyce
Gravity's Rainbow & Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Lincoln at Gettysburg by Gary Wills
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
October 1964 by David Halberstam
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

I'm a big book nerd.
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Can we get this guy some kind of prize for reading Ulysses more than once (or even just finishing it)? That's an endurance performance as impressive as running a marathon...
 
I took a seminar on it college and have loved it ever since.

Mrs Jerry and I even got married on Bloomsday : June 16th

There are some sections that REALLY bog down, I will admit, but Molly Bloom's solliloquy at the end makes it worth slogging through.

Did I mention I was book nerd which also helps??

ETA : FWIW I though Gravity's Rainbow was a much more difficult read
 
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