Re-Bred any books lately?

[muskrat]

I'm sure many of us do The Stand every coupla years or so, take another trip to the Tower, do ya; go back to Derry, even though it's a nasty place. Hell, I musta did the Lot about a hunnerd times. People ask, "Didn't you already read that one?" Derf. That's like asking "Didn't you already listen to that Stones album?"

Which books do you read over and over and over? Don't gotta be just King books, mind. Tell ya I musta read all seven Phillip Marlow books a gazillion times, do certain Kerouacs until they fall apart, got a beloved old PB of Dracula with my favorite bits hi-lighted, all kinda books.

Go.

 

[FlakeNoir]

(Yup) The Stand
The Green Mile
The Dark Tower Series
IT
The Talisman
On Writing
LOTR
Children's Hospital
Savages (Shirley Conran)
Papillon

 

[The Nameless]

As my list of books read is still quite small (and only consist of Stephen King), I've only ever re-read 2 books - IT and 11/22/63. I've read them both 2 or 3 times. I know for a fact that I will re-read more - The Stand and Joyland in particular. The Dark Towers may be a bit too much while I still have a case full of unread books.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I re-read Huckleberry Finn (my favorite book). I haven't read it since high school and I still love it.

I also re-read Into the Wild which I hadn't read since 2000. I had just seen the movie and I didn't remember any of it.

I don't re-read books that much since I read very slowly.

 

[Kurben]

If we skip King.... (the most frequent there are IT, Green Mile and The Stand. Otherwise
Watership Down by Richard Adams.
LOTR
Anne of Green Gables (sentimental reasons but it is really good) (Lucy MontGomery)
OutLander (the first book, not the rest) (Gabaldon)
Clan of the Cave Bear (Auel)
Some books by Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr.
Some books by PG Wodehouse
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K, Jerome (over 120 years old but still the funniest book i ever read)
The Chrysalids, Kraken Wakes and Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham

 

[FlakeNoir]

If we skip King.... (the most frequent there are IT, Green Mile and The Stand. Otherwise
Watership Down by Richard Adams.
LOTR
Anne of Green Gables (sentimental reasons but it is really good) (Lucy MontGomery)
OutLander (the first book, not the rest) (Gabaldon)
Clan of the Cave Bear (Auel)
Some books by Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr.
Some books by PG Wodehouse
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K, Jerome (over 120 years old but still the funniest book i ever read)
The Chrysalids, Kraken Wakes and Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham

Outlander was great! And I love Watership Down, but I am such a baby with it. (even the song (from the movie) still makes me bawl)

 

[Kurben]

Outlander was great! And I love Watership Down, but I am such a baby with it. (even the song (from the movie) still makes me bawl)

For me it Watership is one of the best stories of Friendship, Endurance, Fear, Growing up, Responsibilty and humanity i ever read! And it is not even a human in it!! If we exclude this meeting hazel had when he was caught by the cat. For me it is better than LOTR and most other books. I don't feel it has an unnessary word in it.

 

[FlakeNoir]

For me it Watership is one of the best stories of Friendship, Endurance, Fear, Growing up, Responsibilty and humanity i ever read! And it is not even a human in it!! If we exclude this meeting hazel had when he was caught by the cat. For me it is better than LOTR and most other books. I don't feel it has an unnessary word in it.

Mine is (admittedly) a child's perspective, I haven't read it as an adult... because I've been too chicken. Maybe I will pick it up from the library.

 

[Kurben]

That is one of the great things with it. It works as well on children as on adults. Only on different levels. It is an extremely rare thing in a book i think.

Mine is (admittedly) a child's perspective, I haven't read it as an adult... because I've been too chicken. Maybe I will pick it up from the library.

 

[not_nadine]

I read Watership Down after Stu mentioned it in The Stand! Loved it. Never saw the movie.

Spoiler

I did not know there was a glossary in the back, till I finished it. I was pretty fluent in Rabbit-Speak by then.

I re-read The Stand all the time.
Also The DT books random sections.

 

[fljoe0]

I re-read quite a few short stories. I have several short story collections and anthologies and will just get in the mood for a short story and pick one of these books and (more or less) randomly pick two or three stories out. My short story re-reads usually consist of Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and a couple of sci-fi & horror anthologies that I have. Great sci-fi is prime re-read material because a great sci-fi story can be hard to fully wrap your mind around the first time.

As far as novels, I have re-read "Slaughterhouse Five" the most. I have read "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" at least 4 times. I've read "Catcher In The Rye" at least 3 times. I've read a few SK books more than once. Of the SK books, I've probably read "The Shining" the most.

 

[muskrat]

I re-read quite a few short stories. I have several short story collections and anthologies and will just get in the mood for a short story and pick one of these books and (more or less) randomly pick two or three stories out. My short story re-reads usually consist of Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and a couple of sci-fi & horror anthologies that I have. Great sci-fi is prime re-read material because a great sci-fi story can be hard to fully wrap your mind around the first time.

As far as novels, I have re-read "Slaughterhouse Five" the most. I have read "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" at least 4 times. I've read "Catcher In The Rye" at least 3 times. I've read a few SK books more than once. Of the SK books, I've probably read "The Shining" the most.

Lost count of how many 'trips' to FnL in Las Vegas I've taken; same with Hell's Angels and Generation of Swine. Bout all the Thompsons, really.

Having another Naked Lunch right now. Been awhile, but Burroughs is ever the amusing dinner guest--stuff cracks me up.

 

[doowopgirl]

Could never re read Hunter S. after the initial read. Not sure why, just didn't work for me a second time. The Stand, yep. Green Mile, Shawshank, Blaze, FDNS, many times. DT twice and it needs ti be left a little while. Every so often I go on a Truman Capote thing as well. Breakfast at Tiffanys, In Cold Blood. Every so often I get an urge for Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, too.

 

[danie]

I read Gone with the Wind the first time at age 17, again at 27, and again at 37. Didn't plan it; just felt like it. I missed 47
Jane Eyre
Speaks the Nightbird
The Shining
Pet Sematary

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Lately? Like in the last year or so? Read some Steinbeck again, stories I read years ago, East of Eden, Winter of Our Discontent, have read Grapes many times, Mice and Men. Steinbeck rocks. Harry Crews, Padgett Powell. One winter I read a pile of Koontz stories again, was actually looking for a scene I recalled, about search warrants, subject's rights, master of the search...thought it was Koontz, but nope, not. Maybe Kellerman or that lawyer guy, Grisham...who I've also read again. All of King's stuff, many multiple times, even the stories the pikers hate, Tommyknockers, Insomnia. Round em up and dump em at sea but give em a package of Graham crackers...shouldn't be completely heartless.

Huckleberry Finn...Catch-22...Gravity's Rainbow...Vineland...Crying of Lot 49...have read a few Hemingway multiple times, Farewell, Bells, Nick Adams. Walker Percy, Love Among the Ruins, The Moviegoer...Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Herzog...Petals of Blood...In the Castle of My Skin...Midnight's Children...Waiting for the Barbarians...Curious George, Rides a Bike...Horton Hears a Who...Harold and His Purple Crayon...ummm, what else...I've read the Bible multiple times, not necessarily from start to finish but hit and miss, put a check in the index to indicate such and such.

 

[not_nadine]

I have to re-read Gone with the Wind again soon too! Read that lots, as well.

Now that I am thinking of it, North and South. Might as well watch the wonderfully cheesy mini-series with Patrick Swayze again while I am at it.

 

[AchtungBaby]

For every 3-4 new books I read, I like to re read an old favorite (or two). This year I've only re read King so far:
Night Shift
Pet Sematary
Duma Key
Dark Tower 1-3

 

[kingricefan]

I try to do at least one re-read of a King book. I let them sit for a couple of years after the initial read. Have taken the journey to the Tower a few times- this last time I stopped after book 4 and haven't started back up again as it's not calling to me (yet!). I've re-read The Stand numerous times over the years also. I've done re-reads of Gone With The Wind, The Color Purple, East O Eden. EoE amazes me because it's like someone gets in there and puts stuff in that I never read before- there's always something new to discover. Steinbeck was a genius! I started doing re-reads of Dan Simmons works, too, but not the Hyperion stuff.

 

[Blake]

From The Gunslinger:
David no longer hunted the sky. His feathers had lost the radiant animal brightness of three years ago, but the eyes were still as piercing and motionless as ever. You cannot friend a hawk, they said,unless you are half a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them. The hawk pays no coinage to love or morals.

Now I'm re-reading volume two.

 

[Kurben]

I have to re-read Gone with the Wind again soon too! Read that lots, as well.

Now that I am thinking of it, North and South. Might as well watch the wonderfully cheesy mini-series with Patrick Swayze again while I am at it.

That was actually good. Are you one of those that swoon over him in North and South, Dirty Dancing and other appearancews?