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That book that you reread?

Everything I have by Heinlein, which is to say pretty much everything. I have lost count how many times I have read Stranger. First the original release, then the extended edition. I also find all his juveniles bar the first one (Rocketship Gallileo) very easy to read and entertaining enough to browse through multiple times. Double Star, Door into Summer, even some of his '80's stuff, specifically Friday, Job and To Sail Beyond the Sunset.



John Wyndham as well. Day of the Triffids, Trouble with Lichen, The Midwich Cuckoos, Web, his short story collections, particularly Consider Her Ways. Douglas Adams (I am re-reading the first Dirk Gently book at the moment.



Mainstream stuff: Catch 22, Mila 18, Exodus (not the Bible one), A High Wind in Jamaica, To Kill A Mockingbird. Ben Elton stuff. Popcorn, STARK. The Hunger Games trilogy. Too much more to remember right now, and lots of non fiction as well, with Mick Foley's autobiographical books at the top of the tree.


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fromdownunder said:
Everything I have by Heinlein, which is to say pretty much everything. I have lost count how many times I have read Stranger.
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For me it's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, which I must have read a dozen times, closely followed by The Number of the Beast.
 
Pope130 said:
The Sherlock Holmes stories.
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank.
Most anything by H. Beam Piper.
A. Bertram Chandlers' Rim Worlds stories, but only the early ones, and about once a decade.
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We have similar tastes. Though there's a new-ish ABC out.
 
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Falco series by Lindsey Davies

Iain Banks (or Iain M. Banks if we are going sci-fi)
 
Quite a lot, really. LOTR, Gene Wolf’s New Sun and Long Sun, lots of Jack Vance...
William Gibson, the Sprawl and Bridge trilogies....
Greg Bear, the Forge/Anvil novels...
Roger Zelazney, Nine Princes in Amber...
 
I end up re-reading most of mine, at least since I started on eBooks. I have about 950 titles now. When I get bored, I'll start browsing through until I find one I haven't read in a while. Most are fantasy and sci-fi, a few thrillers/mysteries. I need to dig for all my physical books; they're still in containers in the garage. I used to buy a lot while in the Army; easy to put a paperback in a cargo pocket to read while out in the field.
 
Trebuchet said:
There are virtually no books I do NOT re-read. Obviously that's just me. I probably read The Lord Of The Rings ten times in ten years. But haven't in quite a while, perhaps I'll do that. I'm currently halfway through the third of the Brother Cadfael series. For the fifth or sixth time.



I used to read a lot of SF, but not much any more. I've done all of Discworld at least twice in a couple of years. I read and re-read a lot of naval historical fiction, having been hooked on it by Hornblower years ago.
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It is quite strange, I hardly ever watch movies more than once from choice but I can read any book over and over.

I also still have all the books I have ever owned since I was around 9. Unfortunately storage of books has been a perennial issue (I have thousands and thousands) and I have boxes and boxes of books in the attic, stuffed under beds, piled double deep on shelving and boxes in my outhouse. That means I can't get to them easily but there will be books in amongst those that I have read dozens of times.

Since I've become Kindled the storage problem has abated and I have quite a few PD texts that I have in physical books and in a week probably re read one or two of my back catalogue.
 
I've tried to think of any well known or major authors that I haven't read more than once. I think the only significant one is the Wandering Jew (by Sue) which is the most boring book in existence and the only book I have ever considered giving up on.

Oh hold on there are a few others, ones that come to mind are any Austin novels and Charles Dickens novels, I find them all to be tedious.
 
Herbert’s Dune
Orwell’s 1984
A lot of Lovecraft’s stories

Reading through the above entries it becomes obvious to me to revisit Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.
 
Darat said:
It is quite strange, I hardly ever watch movies more than once from choice but I can read any book over and over.

I also still have all the books I have ever owned since I was around 9. Unfortunately storage of books has been a perennial issue (I have thousands and thousands) and I have boxes and boxes of books in the attic, stuffed under beds, piled double deep on shelving and boxes in my outhouse. That means I can't get to them easily but there will be books in amongst those that I have read dozens of times.

Since I've become Kindled the storage problem has abated and I have quite a few PD texts that I have in physical books and in a week probably re read one or two of my back catalogue.
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Fancy that ! we have something in common after all. I too have something in the region of thousands of books. About 95% of them are non fiction and the fiction books I have are all highbrow, Like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell and Herman Hesse. I have a large room with wall to wall bookcases full of books, and a load more books on the floor.
I keep my best books in the bedroom in another tall bookcase.
 
wasapi said:
There are not too many books I will reread, but I have some. Of course there are a couple of books of poetry, Mainly Galway Kinnell , Dorthey Parker, some in Portuguese.

The books, A Hundred Years of Solitude, some old Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler books, are all I can think of now, but I know there are others.

You?
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I re-read Bertrand Russell ' history of western philosophy' and Steven Hawking's ' brief history of time' in the last year. I am currently re-reading Fritjof Capra , ' the Tao of physics'.
 
Scorpion said:
Fancy that ! we have something in common after all. I too have something in the region of thousands of books. About 95% of them are non fiction and the fiction books I have are all highbrow, Like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell and Herman Hesse. I have a large room with wall to wall bookcases full of books, and a load more books on the floor.
I keep my best books in the bedroom in another tall bookcase.
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At least you are organized. My books are scattered everywhere. I started with one large bookcase, but soon they spilled over into almost every surface, even under the bed.
 
Darat said:
It is quite strange, I hardly ever watch movies more than once from choice but I can read any book over and over.

I also still have all the books I have ever owned since I was around 9. Unfortunately storage of books has been a perennial issue (I have thousands and thousands) and I have boxes and boxes of books in the attic, stuffed under beds, piled double deep on shelving and boxes in my outhouse. That means I can't get to them easily but there will be books in amongst those that I have read dozens of times.

Since I've become Kindled the storage problem has abated and I have quite a few PD texts that I have in physical books and in a week probably re read one or two of my back catalogue.
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When we consolidated from two houses to just the smaller of the two about five years ago, the storage problem became acute. I wound up donating the majority to Goodwill Industries. When I dropped them off, the guy said "We LOVE books!" That made me feel a little better, and in fact the whole thing didn't hurt as much as I expected.
 
wasapi said:
There are not too many books I will reread, but I have some. Of course there are a couple of books of poetry, Mainly Galway Kinnell , Dorthey Parker, some in Portuguese.

The books, A Hundred Years of Solitude, some old Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler books, are all I can think of now, but I know there are others.

You?
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I don't read Portuguese, but if you like Portuguese poets, I hope you have run into Fernando Pessoa.
 
Hellbound said:
I end up re-reading most of mine, at least since I started on eBooks. I have about 950 titles now. When I get bored, I'll start browsing through until I find one I haven't read in a while. Most are fantasy and sci-fi, a few thrillers/mysteries. I need to dig for all my physical books; they're still in containers in the garage. I used to buy a lot while in the Army; easy to put a paperback in a cargo pocket to read while out in the field.
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On the E-books thing, I always remember the scene in the Time Machine where Rod Taylor discovers the rotting books in the library and comments about how it explains so much. I thought it would make a great Kindle ad to have a digitized Yvette Mimieux reply, "Oh, your civilization still reads books made from dead trees?"
 
bruto said:
I don't read Portuguese, but if you like Portuguese poets, I hope you have run into Fernando Pessoa.
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Thanks so much for the introduction of Pessoa. He is a brilliant poet!
 
Trebuchet said:
When we consolidated from two houses to just the smaller of the two about five years ago, the storage problem became acute. I wound up donating the majority to Goodwill Industries. When I dropped them off, the guy said "We LOVE books!" That made me feel a little better, and in fact the whole thing didn't hurt as much as I expected.
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Doesn't compute. Give a book away? That breaches the fundamental narrative of reality!
 
I got rid of stacks of books over the last few years. Mostly large-format coffee table books I'd kept around for reference. I got most of them before the internet was the major photo reference source.

So why did I just have to buy another bookcase?! This one's going in the basement to hold the rest of the art, music, and reference books I'd had stacked up in various places.
 
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