Books i read again and again.

[The Nameless]

The only books I've reread are IT and 11.22.63. I'm absolutely sure I will reread the stand one day.

"We all float down here. Resistance is futile."

But to the point (Batman)! Bearing in mind I'll read 99% of books at least 2-3 times, here are some I return to more often that others:

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (part of a complete collection I keep trying to get through in one go)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
Fatherland - Robert Harris
The Hannibal Lecter Omnibus - Thomas Harris (though I usually call it 'The Hannibal Lecter Om-nom-nom-nibus'. Because I'm like that.)
The Rats, The Survivor, The Jonah, Shrine, Sepulchre, Haunted - James Herbert
Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, The Stand, The Bachman Books, Pet Sematary, Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, From a Buick 8 - Stephen King
Strangers, Watchers, Dark Rivers of the Heart, Strange Highways, Intensity, Fear Nothing, Seize the Night, False Memory - Dean Koontz
1984 - George Orwell
The War of the World, The Time Machine, Tono-Bungay - H. G. Wells
The Day of the Triffids, The Chrysalids - John Wyndham.

That's a lot of rereading, I think you've reread more books than I've read. Oh and om nom nom nibus -

 

[staropeace]

"We all float down here. Resistance is futile."

But to the point (Batman)! Bearing in mind I'll read 99% of books at least 2-3 times, here are some I return to more often that others:

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (part of a complete collection I keep trying to get through in one go)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
Fatherland - Robert Harris
The Hannibal Lecter Omnibus - Thomas Harris (though I usually call it 'The Hannibal Lecter Om-nom-nom-nibus'. Because I'm like that.)
The Rats, The Survivor, The Jonah, Shrine, Sepulchre, Haunted - James Herbert
Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, The Stand, The Bachman Books, Pet Sematary, Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, From a Buick 8 - Stephen King
Strangers, Watchers, Dark Rivers of the Heart, Strange Highways, Intensity, Fear Nothing, Seize the Night, False Memory - Dean Koontz
1984 - George Orwell
The War of the World, The Time Machine, Tono-Bungay - H. G. Wells
The Day of the Triffids, The Chrysalids - John Wyndham.

Lol, all of them and many more. Books are like comfort food.

 

[Mr Nobody]

The only books I've reread are IT and 11.22.63. I'm absolutely sure I will reread the stand one day.
That's a lot of rereading, I think you've reread more books than I've read. Oh and om nom nom nibus -

Cheers.
I've usually got 2-3 books on the go at any given time. My preference is to have one new fiction, one re-read fiction, one non-fiction, but since I sometimes run out of new things it tends to just be the re-read and the non-fic (often also a re-read).
Still, it's not the number of books you read that's important, it's what you take away.

Lol, all of them and many more. Books are like comfort food.

Indeed. Food nourishes my body, books nourish my mind. I can't do without either. Neither of my parents were/are big readers, but my maternal grandmother was so I know exactly where I got my love of books and language from.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Delete please. Once again I managed to post in the wrong topic....I'm not real bright.....thanks.

...wow...I'll alert the media Captain Obvious...

 

[ghost19]

...wow...I'll alert the media Captain Obvious...

No comments necessary so.....SHADDAP!!!

 

[Dana Jean]

No comments necessary so.....SHADDAP!!!

What did you want deleted?

 

[ghost19]

What did you want deleted?

I think I was able to get the movie comments edited and just ended up typing "delete this" because I wasn't able to completely delete the post itself. I thought I was in a thread I wasn't actually in....I'm sharp like that......

 

[Dana Jean]

I think I was able to get the movie comments edited and just ended up typing "delete this" because I wasn't able to completely delete the post itself. I thought I was in a thread I wasn't actually in....I'm sharp like that......

Well, I deleted that deleted comment. hahaohahaoha!

 

[ghost19]

Well, I deleted that deleted comment. hahaohahaoha!

I see just what you did there.......lol

 

[GNTLGNT]

No comments necessary so.....SHADDAP!!!

....Get offa mah lawn!!!!....

 

[Doc Creed]

Dana Jean
I'm rereading Wildcatting by Shann Nix. I think you'd like it because it puts me in mind of Karen Russell's Swamplandia! and the book Geek Love. It is about a Texas family in the early 20th century and has a wonderful cast of characters: think Tim Burton and Flannery O'Connor if they'd developed the show Dallas.

 

[HollyGolightly]

I have read Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man to pieces. I love Fannie Flagg and I love child narrators and it's just the perfect marriage of laughter and tears.

I re-read my short story collections often. I have all of the Best of American shorts from 1992 thru 2014. I love to just pick one off the shelf, open it anywhere and begin anew.

Evergreen by Belva Plain many times.

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice.

Servant of the Bones by Anne as well.

I have read so many SK books more than once. It for nostalgia, Wolves of the Calla for the Tet, Joyland for the unstoppableness.

I still read kid's books sometimes: Blubber and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret - I've read both this year. for the 10,000th time.

As a teen dealing with a situation no teen should ever have to deal with and feeling I could not go to my parents, books were my escape. I was drawn to books the showed someone in a worse position than I was.

Two that I read and reread were

Lisa Bright and Dark by John Neufeld
and
The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser

(By love of time travel stories goes way back. )

As an adult, The Clan of the Cavebear series has been read many times. As has Harry Potter.

I loved that book! Read it and re-read it many times.

I have some books I've read so many times I just can't read them anymore. Like In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote. I kind of went off Harlen Coben. Just too samey. SK I never get tired of. I've all of them so many times. The Stand is a favorite. I'm currently reading Bazaar of Bad Dreams and that has stories I read elsewhere before, but that doesn't stop me enjoying them.Fannie Flagg books are such a joy I never tire of either.

I love that phrase "Just too samey". I'm borrowing it.

And I love Fannie Flagg. Our friend kingricefan is a fan too. Daisy Faye is my favorite for some reason.

 

[Doc Creed]

I have read Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man to pieces. I love Fannie Flagg and I love child narrators and it's just the perfect marriage of laughter and tears.

I re-read my short story collections often. I have all of the Best of American shorts from 1992 thru 2014. I love to just pick one off the shelf, open it anywhere and begin anew.

Evergreen by Belva Plain many times.

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice.

Servant of the Bones by Anne as well.

I have read so many SK books more than once. It for nostalgia, Wolves of the Calla for the Tet, Joyland for the unstoppableness.

I still read kid's books sometimes: Blubber and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret - I've read both this year. for the 10,000th time.


I loved that book! Read it and re-read it many times.



I love that phrase "Just too samey". I'm borrowing it.

And I love Fannie Flagg. Our friend kingricefan is a fan too. Daisy Faye is my favorite for some reason.

The Daisy Fay book is one of a handful that made me laugh so hard. I met Flagg three times and she is just as down to earth and friendly as you'd imagine. She's big here in Alabama. To me, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man is infectious and a must read for southerners...I think many guys are scared off by the title but it's really a laugh a minute if they give it a chance. I used to recommend it to readers of both sexes that enjoyed Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck.

 

[Dana Jean]

Dana Jean
I'm rereading Wildcatting by Shann Nix. I think you'd like it because it puts me in mind of Karen Russell's Swamplandia! and the book Geek Love. It is about a Texas family in the early 20th century and has a wonderful cast of characters: think Tim Burton and Flannery O'Connor if they'd developed the show Dallas.

Cool! I will check into it, thanks for the recommend

 

[kingricefan]

I have read Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man to pieces. I love Fannie Flagg and I love child narrators and it's just the perfect marriage of laughter and tears.

I re-read my short story collections often. I have all of the Best of American shorts from 1992 thru 2014. I love to just pick one off the shelf, open it anywhere and begin anew.

Evergreen by Belva Plain many times.

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice.

Servant of the Bones by Anne as well.

I have read so many SK books more than once. It for nostalgia, Wolves of the Calla for the Tet, Joyland for the unstoppableness.

I still read kid's books sometimes: Blubber and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret - I've read both this year. for the 10,000th time.


I loved that book! Read it and re-read it many times.



I love that phrase "Just too samey". I'm borrowing it.

And I love Fannie Flagg. Our friend kingricefan is a fan too. Daisy Faye is my favorite for some reason.

Yeppers!!! I LOVES me some Fannie Flagg! She can walk you through every emotion possible with her stories- You laugh, you cry, they become part of you!

 

[kingricefan]

The Daisy Fay book is one of a handful that made me laugh so hard. I met Flagg three times and she is just as down to earth and friendly as you'd imagine. She's big here in Alabama. To me, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man is infectious and a must read for southerners...I think many guys are scared off by the title but it's really a laugh a minute if they give it a chance. I used to recommend it to readers of both sexes that enjoyed Dave Barry and Erma Bombeck.

I would love to meet her! This is dating me but I remember when she was a regular on one of the game shows back in the day and she was hysterical! I would love to hear her read from one of her books, especially Fried Green Tomatoes.

 

[Doc Creed]

Cool! I will check into it, thanks for the recommend

You're welcome. The story may seem disjointed at first but the many narratives come together eventually, much like a stranger going through a deceased person's belongings and photo albums: it just congeals. I read the paperback back in 1994 and finally purchased a hardcover a few years ago. It's my only copy but I'd definitely part with it and send it to you if you aren't able to find it.

 

[Doc Creed]

I would love to meet her! This is dating me but I remember when she was a regular on one of the game shows back in the day and she was hysterical! I would love to hear her read from one of her books, especially Fried Green Tomatoes.

I was born in '77 but I also saw her many times on those Match Game reruns. She has a house in California most of the year but also spends summers in Fairhope, Alabama, a Gulf coast river community that inspired her to write A Redbird Christmas. It's a gorgeous artistic town with the flavor of Mobile but more secluded. The beach is a short drive away. Anyway, her book FGT is based on her aunt's real cafe in Irondale. Just up the road. It is literally right near the train depot. I've eaten there twice and the food is out of this world. The last time I ordered fried butterfly porkchops, fried okra, field peas, mashed potatoes and cornbread and sweet tea. I hope you get to visit here one day. Alabama is really diverse.

 

[Dana Jean]

You're welcome. The story may seem disjointed at first but the many narratives come together eventually, much like a stranger going through a deceased person's belongings and photo albums: it just congeals. I read the paperback back in 1994 and finally purchased a hardcover a few years ago. It's my only copy but I'd definitely part with it and send it to you if you aren't able to find it.

Oh, I'll find it!

 

[Dana Jean]

I was born in '77 but I also saw her many times on those Match Game reruns. She has a house in California most of the year but also spends summers in Fairhope, Alabama, a Gulf coast river community that inspired her to write A Redbird Christmas. It's a gorgeous artistic town with the flavor of Mobile but more secluded. The beach is a short drive away. Anyway, her book FGT is based on her aunt's real cafe in Irondale. Just up the road. It is literally right near the train depot. I've eaten there twice and the food is out of this world. The last time I ordered fried butterfly porkchops, fried okra, field peas, mashed potatoes and cornbread and sweet tea. I hope you get to visit here one day. Alabama is really diverse.

Every bit of that sounded deeeelish except the sweet tea. patoooey!