Books you love to read again and again?

[mrs quoad]

Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Quarantine (Jim Crace)
Cancer Ward (Solzhenitsyn)
The First Circle (Solzhenitsyn)

Fuckin beautiful books, aye

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)

ooooo thats a good one.

 

[mentalchik]

I re-read loads of my books over and over.........


would find it weird not to.

 

[Dillinger4]

The first one that springs to mind is Life After God by Douglas Coupland.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

almost annually

Stephen King - On Writing
Magnus Mills - The Restraint of Beasts
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn -One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

 

[snackhead]

High Concept, Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess -Charles Fleming
Break Up, The End of a Love Story -Catherine Texier
Is it me or is Everything Shit? - Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur
Complicity - Iain Banks
Portable Henry Rollins

 

[soulman]

almost annually

Stephen King - On Writing
Magnus Mills - The Restraint of Beasts
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn -One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Another one I've read more than once.

 

[sojourner]

The Twins

Sorry only just seen this

The Twins at St Clare's, and a couple of associated books


I was obsessed with being sent to boarding school - just to get away from me ma I suppose, but the midnight feasts were a major factor too

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I don't read a lot, but one book I read a few times was Escape from Sobibor

 

[Orang Utan]

Sorry only just seen this

The Twins at St Clare's, and a couple of associated books

Who wrote it?

 

[sojourner]

Who wrote it?

Enid Blyton

 

[Orang Utan]

Enid Blyton

Oh right, I won't be seeking that one out then

 

[sojourner]

Oh right, I won't be seeking that one out then

Well, I WAS 9

 

[albionism]

The Wasp Factory

 

[Detroit City]

War & Peace by Tolstoy

 

[The Groke]

Magnus Mills - The Restraint of Beasts

 

[mitochondria]

Breakfast of Champions, Cats' Cradle

Illuminatus

Steppenwolf

A Scanner Darkly

 

[DotCommunist]

Dune, I dig it out for a re-read ever couple of years (along with Messiah as well obv)


Perdido Street Station.......its quality

 

[KeyboardJockey]

The Simlarillion

 

[DotCommunist]

The Simlarillion

You're joking right?

 

[Cheesypoof]

Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'

 

[ViolentPanda]

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
The Borribles - Michael de Larrabeiti
The Vatican Cellars - Andre Gide

 

[KeyboardJockey]

You're joking right?

no I think I've read it about 7 or 8 times.

 

[DotCommunist]

no I think I've read it about 7 or 8 times.

I bow to you sir. I managed only one read.

It's nice for the whole creation myth of middle-earth thing, but I find the style hard work. It's like trying to read Beawolf, or the illiad. Hard work and little reward.

 

[foo]

A Confederacy of Dunces.

i've alreay read it a couple of times, and i'm about to read it again. it's brilliant.

Cold Comfort Farm was one i read over and over when i was younger. made me feel all calm it did.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

I bow to you sir. I managed only one read.

It's nice for the whole creation myth of middle-earth thing, but I find the style hard work. It's like trying to read Beawolf, or the illiad. Hard work and little reward.

Silmariliion would make a brilliant film if anyone other than me considered it filmable.

May not have been 20 years ago but CGI has moved on since then.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The Simlarillion

Serious? I like LOTR but I found the Silmarillion deathly dull.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

no I think I've read it about 7 or 8 times.

Jesus. Are you a masochist?

 

[Poi E]

Candide. Reminds me to laugh heartily at the ridiculously brief period of angst, vanity and indulgence I call my life.

 

[idioteque]

I've re-read 1984 a couple of times.

and the Harry Potters a silly number of times...