What novel or novels do you frequently go back to and read over? I have several:
Malevil, Robert Merle
Forever, Pete Hamill
Rebecca, The Scapegoat, and The House on the Strand, Daphne du Maurier
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Eye of the Needle and The Man from St. Petersburg, Ken Follett
The Shipping News and Accordian Crimes, Annie Proulx
The Hotel New Hampshire and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin (every winter)
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I have only re-read one book in about 30 years, and it was 25 years between readings. The Earthsea trilogy by Ursula LeQuinn.
Rugglesby
Level 8
May 8, 2018
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Yes, excellent, now I wanna go read it again.
Orlando, by Virginia Woolf, which I've read at least six times, and Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes. which I reread every five years.
Jnei
Level 8
May 8, 2018
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the like is for Don Quixote
I really am afraid of Virginia Woolf
I have too many still to read to go back. Second-hand bookshop addiction. ?
SimonCyrene
Level 7
May 8, 2018
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I love 'A hundred years of solitude' Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
yes and
To kill a mockingbird.
Earthsea trilogy
jacpod
Level 8
May 8, 2018
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I re-read my favorite Author Louie Lamour! love westerns!
Bluewater88
Level 4
May 8, 2018
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The Stranger - Albert Camus
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Zen Guitar - Philip Toshio Sudo
...not a novel but a great little book.
Slappy_Longarms
Level 7
May 8, 2018
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Anything by Richard Russo, especially the hysterical STRAIGHT MAN.
BurtsTime
Level 6
May 8, 2018
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@ProudMerry I enjoyed that book and it's not my usual fare. I think it would probably be most interesting to someone who is in or has experienced life in Academia, but it was a howl.
I have read most books by Terry Pratchett several times.
GeorgeRocheleau
Level 8
May 8, 2018
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Yes I have the entire collection and have read most up to and including "Nation", several times, but it is sad to see him deteriorate from "Unseen Academicals" onward and I find it too painful to reread the later works, I was barely able to make it through "Raising Steam." at all.
Since my tablet died, it's back-to-books = 'Conversations' J. G. Ballard, "Flicker' Theodore Roszak, "Breakfast of Champions' Kurt Vonnegut, 'Apocalypse Culture' edit Adam Parfey, "Sexual Personae' Camille Paglia, Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous Visions' anthologies..
agentXchicago
Level 4
May 10, 2018
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sammad95
Level 4
May 8, 2018
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..and yes to a n y t h i n thing wilde. the original painting will be on display @ the art institute soon -
I love young adult fiction and poetry: Hunger Games, Wrinkle in Time trilogy, the Narnia seies, the Boxcar Kids, Where the Sidewalk Ends. But one book I have to revisit every few years is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I have bought, read, given away, and re-acquired it at least 6 times.
Supercali
Level 6
May 8, 2018
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Anything by Mary Roberts Rinehart, also Manning Coles.
prairiedoggy
Level 4
May 8, 2018
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There are so many books out there I haven't read yet, I rarely reread anything if I can help it.
HippieChick58
Level 9
May 8, 2018
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Mostly SF: "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny; "Mindbridge" by Joe Haldeman; "Karma" by Arsen Darnay; and "The Ringworld Engineers" by Larry Niven. Also, "A Kiss Before Dying" by Ira Levin, "Ice Station Zebra" by Alistair MacLean (don't judge by the terrible movie, it's excellent!), and "The Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy.
Fit50something
Level 7
May 8, 2018
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The four I have read most for pure enjoyment are
Dracula Bram Stoker
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stephenson
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
But my guilty pleasure books are
Manitou Blood Graham Masterton
Men at Arms Terry Pratchett
Mouse on the Moon Leonard Wibberley
The Throwback Tom Sharpe
LenHazell53
Level 9
May 8, 2018
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I finally got around to reading Treasure Island last summer, and it was absolutely spectacular!
@cmadler I believe there is a case to be made for it being the technically greatest British novel ever written.
@ProudMerry you won't be disappointed, it is hilarious, for me only "the great pursuit " comes near it in terms of humour.
I love Henry Miller..so I can re-read most of his works over and over..like Air Conditioned Nightmare or the Tropic of stories..
Charlene
Level 9
May 8, 2018
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Most of my books that I buy now are non-fiction.
Sarahroo29
Level 8
May 8, 2018
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@ProudMerry I use my old glasses as reading glasses now. I haven't sat down with my books in a long time to pick up where I left off on some of them. I get so easily distracted, that it is hard for me to sit and read a whole chapter without getting up or putting my book down.
@ProudMerry I can't stay with one thing for too long or I get bored and do something else. I have the same issues with video games. I get stuck in a hard spot and then quit for a month or two, or until someone can get me out of the hard spot. I do have undiagnosed ADHD, well, as a kid I was diagnosed with it. The doctors took that away and gave me something else that doesn't even fit as a young adult. They gave me schizo-affective disorder. I don't hear voices, I have never had disorganized thoughts and speech, and it just doesn't fit. I do take meds for it, but I don't think I should be. They are helping me to be sane right now. I have been stable on them for over 2 years. IDK? I think I need to be re-evaluated again.
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