I know mate - when I like something, I devour every single detail I can find out about it
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I know mate - when I like something, I devour every single detail I can find out about it
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I know mate - when I like something, I devour every single detail I can find out about it
we are obsessed
the button
out on the kocker
Another cracking "repeat read." As is Puckoon.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Hmm, probably Dune, The Diamond Age and, like Dub, Life After God...altho I haven't been back to that for a few years now, being a somewhat happier person than I was a few years ago!
Also...Bluffers Guide to the Quantum Universe, Chaos and The Origin Of Species are pretty well thumbed non-fiction...
Also...Bluffers Guide to the Quantum Universe, Chaos and The Origin Of Species are pretty well thumbed non-fiction...
pootle
little moran
Ooh, yes, Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations for me too, which is odd cos I find the rest of Bronte and Dickens' stuff a touch dull and predictable, but Wuthering Heights. Sigh! One Yorkshire holiday I went up to the cottage that is supposed to be Wuthering Heights and ran around singing "It's me, it's Cathy I've come hoooommmeee" etc with a mate.
I also took the best photo I've even taken of Wuthering Heights all windswept and bleak an' that
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Blimey. Er...
I've read "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and "The Hotel New Hampshire" by John Irving about half a dozen times each, Stephen Donaldson's two "Thomas Covenant" trilogies about an equal number of times and "Dracula" at least once every couple of years since the mid 1970s.
Plus there are literally hundreds of other books that I've read 2 or 3 times.
I've read "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and "The Hotel New Hampshire" by John Irving about half a dozen times each, Stephen Donaldson's two "Thomas Covenant" trilogies about an equal number of times and "Dracula" at least once every couple of years since the mid 1970s.
Plus there are literally hundreds of other books that I've read 2 or 3 times.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
How could I forget? Oh yeah, novels...
I do tend to re-read at least one of his war memoirs every six or seven months. Sad and funny and so much more human than any other history of the second world war.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Ooh, yes, Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations for me too, which is odd cos I find the rest of Bronte and Dickens' stuff a touch dull and predictable, but Wuthering Heights. Sigh! One Yorkshire holiday I went up to the cottage that is supposed to be Wuthering Heights and ran around singing "It's me, it's Cathy I've come hoooommmeee" etc with a mate.
I also took the best photo I've even taken of Wuthering Heights all windswept and bleak an' that
who would win in a fight, Pip or Heathcliffe ?
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
Our Pip?
Ooh, yes, Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations for me too, which is odd cos I find the rest of Bronte and Dickens' stuff a touch dull and predictable, but Wuthering Heights. Sigh! One Yorkshire holiday I went up to the cottage that is supposed to be Wuthering Heights and ran around singing "It's me, it's Cathy I've come hoooommmeee" etc with a mate.
I also took the best photo I've even taken of Wuthering Heights all windswept and bleak an' that
That's because Emily was the only decent writer in the family. Her sisters produced shite
mrsfran
Well-Known Member
It's A Prayer for Owen Meany and Cider House Rules for me.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I've read The World According to Garp a couple of times and I loved A Prayer for Owen Meany but it's never occurred to me to actually read it again, because I know the ending now. I don't suppose it matters really....
pootle
little moran
who would win in a fight, Pip or Heathcliffe ?
Good question - Heathcliffe was a massive, mean, dog killing brute of a bad, but Pip had plenty of passion that could be channelled into rage I reckon.
Hmm...
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I think I read Mr Tickle a few dozen times. Mr Greedy is right up there too. And Mr Bump.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Good question - Heathcliffe was a massive, mean, dog killing brute of a bad, but Pip had plenty of passion that could be channelled into rage I reckon.
Hmm...
pip was good at boxing, he put that herbert pocket down big style
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
who would win in a fight, Pip or Heathcliffe ?
Pip of course, after all if he got into any bother Magwitch would have his back no questions.
pootle
little moran
Mr Tickle is beautifully written. And an ending filled with pathos that you really don't see coming.
the button
out on the kocker
Mr Tickle is beautifully written. And an ending filled with pathos that you really don't see coming.
I find it near-impossible to read Mr Tickle after those X-Files episodes with Eugene Victor Tooms.
I've never read a book more than once
I have, but not many. Dostoevsky only, pretty much. One can only read around 10,000 books in a single lifetime, and that's not many books. So life's too short to repeat them.
mrsfran
Well-Known Member
Oh do, there's lots of joy to be had 2nd and 3rd time round too.
It does have the best ending ever though, doesn't it?
mrsfran
Well-Known Member
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Indeed. You want to be Mr Tickle. You imagine yourself as him and the fun you would have with those long wavy arms. And then... you are suddenly forced to confront yourself and examine how it was that you could have ever wanted to be Mr Tickle. How foolish you feel at the end of the book, yet you are that little bit wiser than you were at the start.Mr Tickle is beautifully written. And an ending filled with pathos that you really don't see coming.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
I can't wait to read Before I Forget by Andre Brink again, while was reading it I had to try ery hard not to ge a penciland underline passages. same with The Golden Notebook. That wasn't the question though was it....
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
The Golden Notebook is a good example of a book with passages in that I could read again and again, but that I will never read again cover-to-cover. The last 100 or so pages are a bit of a meandering mess tbh. She clearly didn't know how to end it.
There are very few novels I've read that I will ever reread, I think. The odd short one – I've read Cat's Cradle three or four times – but probably no longer ones at all.
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