Books i read again and again.

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Kurben

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Some books i just cant seem to get enough of. I must reread and reread them and.... I think you get the picture. I'm gonna name a few of them. Not all are great books but all are books i have read countless times for some reasons and knew them practically word for word. Do you have such books too? If so, please name them here. I'll start.

Donna Tartt: The Secret History
M.M. Kaye: The Far Pavilions
J.R.R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
Samuel Shellabarger: Prince of Foxes
Robert Heinlein: Double Star
Diana Gabaldon: Outlander (the first in the series)
Jean Auel: The Clan of the Cave Bear
Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time
John Jakes: North and South
James Clavell: Shogun
Herman Wouk: The Winds of War
Lucy MontGomery: Anne of Green Gables
C.S. Lewis: The Horse and His Boy
Agatha Christie: A Murder is Announced
Dorothy Sayers: Gaudy Night
Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank (not sure if that is the correct english title)
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Word for World is Forest
Stephen King: IT

All of these i have read i dont know how many times. They somehow calm me in troubled times even if the books subjects far from always are calming but they are still balm to my soul and i'm thankful towards all the authors for providing that balm.
 

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That's it. Those are probably the only ones I will pick up and read again.

I'm old. I don't have a lot of time left. So, I keep going forward.

I don't mind dying, really, other than it irks me that I will miss out on all the new books, movies, shows, music that will come after me. THAT bothers me.
 

Doc Creed

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I own the John Jakes trilogy, too, Kurben. I enjoyed them tremendously.

Here's my short list :

A Prayer For Owen Meany- John Irving
The Stand- Stephen King
The Prince Of Tides- Pat Conroy
Clay's Quilt- Silas House
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Dandelion Wine- Ray Bradbury
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter- Carson McCullers
Peace Like A River- Leif Enger
In The Family Way- Tommy Hays
Lonesome Dove- Larry McMurtry (actually, I've only read this one once but I have never read the others in series and plan on revisiting this one soon.)
What's Eating Gilbery Grape?- Peter Hedges
Shoeless Joe- W.P. Kinsella
 
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The story I've reread the most often is Today We Choose Faces by Roger Zelazny.

Other stories I enjoy rereading are...

The Stand by Stephen King :)

Weaveworld by Clive Barker (someday I'm going to map the weave lol)

The Long Afternoon of Earth by Brian Aldiss

Nightfall, a short story by Isaac Asimov

I forgot the name and author of this classic sci-fi story but the main character keeps shrinking and travels through ever-shrinking worlds/molecules from the surface on which he started his journey. It borrows from the idea that the earth is merely a molecule in a dog's toenail.
 

Kurben

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The story I've reread the most often is Today We Choose Faces by Roger Zelazny.

Other stories I enjoy rereading are...

The Stand by Stephen King :)

Weaveworld by Clive Barker (someday I'm going to map the weave lol)

The Long Afternoon of Earth by Brian Aldiss

Nightfall, a short story by Isaac Asimov

I forgot the name and author of this classic sci-fi story but the main character keeps shrinking and travels through ever-shrinking worlds/molecules from the surface on which he started his journey. It borrows from the idea that the earth is merely a molecule in a dog's toenail.
could it be The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson?
 

ghost19

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Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. I've just recently started this one again for probably the twentieth-something time. Best cold war book I've ever read as far as a truly realistic blow up between NATO and the WARSAW PACT forces. I am getting old very quickly...lol
 

Mr Nobody

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...I revisit The Stand...to remind me of when I joined the KingBorgian Collective.....

"We all float down here. Resistance is futile." :biggrin2:

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.
 
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could it be The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson?

sorry, I ran off to look for the anthology that contains the story :) The story is He Who Shrank by Henry Hasse. It first appeared in Amazing Stories (magazine) in 1936. I read it in an anthology titled Adventures in Time and Space copywrited 1946 and out of print :( The anthology contains some of the most imaginative stories I've ever read.
 

skimom2

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Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. I've just recently started this one again for probably the twentieth-something time. Best cold war book I've ever read as far as a truly realistic blow up between NATO and the WARSAW PACT forces. I am getting old very quickly...lol
My favorite Clancy is Patriot Games. I can't count how many times I've read that book. His other Jack Ryan books are good, too (well, except for the middle section of The Sum Of All Fears--the first and last thirds are incredible, though), but this one just sticks with me.
 

Kurben

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My favorite Clancy is Patriot Games. I can't count how many times I've read that book. His other Jack Ryan books are good, too (well, except for the middle section of The Sum Of All Fears--the first and last thirds are incredible, though), but this one just sticks with me.
I can agree on that but i thought this books where his son has the main part were boring. He should have stopped while the going was good. Or do you like those too???
 

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Well, I re-read a buncha uncle Stevie, of course. Stand, Lot, Tower, a'yuh.

I'll revisit Dracula and Frankenstein every couple of years.

Several well-worn Kerouacs and a couple W.S. Burroughs.

Earl Thompson's A Garden of Sand and Tattoo...and even The Devil To Pay (even though that last one may have been finished by a ghost writer).

A couple Hunter Thompson's, Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Generation of Swine, etc.

All kinds of R.E. Howard.

All of Raymond Chandler! Especially The Long Goodbye!

And about a hundred more I can't think of right now.
 

GNTLGNT

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Well, I re-read a buncha uncle Stevie, of course. Stand, Lot, Tower, a'yuh.

I'll revisit Dracula and Frankenstein every couple of years.

Several well-worn Kerouacs and a couple W.S. Burroughs.

Earl Thompson's A Garden of Sand and Tattoo...and even The Devil To Pay (even though that last one may have been finished by a ghost writer).

A couple Hunter Thompson's, Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Generation of Swine, etc.

All kinds of R.E. Howard.

All of Raymond Chandler! Especially The Long Goodbye!

And about a hundred more I can't think of right now.
...we'll wait...:D
 

ghost19

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...I devoured much of the early Clancy, but then he just got to bloated for me....
Same here, I enjoyed early Clancy quite a bit, and Red Storm Rising is a military masterpiece imho but a lot of his later books were snooze fests. I tried reading just about all the "Op-Center" books and couldn't get into any of them.
 

skimom2

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Many books I've picked up more than once, but I do have a few that could be considered 'comfort reads'.
1) Salem's Lot
2) Lonesome Dove
3) Screwtape Letters
4) Books 2-4 of the Tower
5) The Mitford series
6) The Secret Garden
7) The Swiss Family Robinson
8) Books 4 and 7 of the Harry Potter series
9) A Room With A View
10) To Kill A Mockingbird