Most durable read.
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Originally posted by kvrdave
Arguments anyone? Anyone at all? <small>anyone????</small>
Arguments anyone? Anyone at all? <small>anyone????</small>
Hey, I moderate this forum now, so watch out.Also Pet Cemetary was a multiple read for me.
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From: Too close to Jules
Originally posted by Bushdog
Fiction: Tolkien's trilogy
Non-fiction: Emerson's essays, first and second series
and
The Theory of Poker (yep, I'm a dork)
Fiction: Tolkien's trilogy
Non-fiction: Emerson's essays, first and second series
and
The Theory of Poker (yep, I'm a dork)

I'd agree with others that mentioned Ender's Game and Tolkien's books.
I'm not sure if I'd really include it because it's fairly recent, but George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series blew me away, and seems to reveal new things (symbolism, foreshadowing, etc.) on repeated readings.
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I read Stephen King's IT like twenty-five times throughout my year in the fifth grade...which might explain why I am the way that I am...
other books that I have read to shreds:
Every damn book by Stephen King
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Addams
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Chronicles Of Majipoor (The Lord Valentine Trilogy) - Robert Silverberg
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
-Any book worth reading is worth re-reading - do you really think you got it all the first time?-
other books that I have read to shreds:
Every damn book by Stephen King
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Addams
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Chronicles Of Majipoor (The Lord Valentine Trilogy) - Robert Silverberg
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
-Any book worth reading is worth re-reading - do you really think you got it all the first time?-
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Originally posted by Mister Beefhead
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Re: the original question:
Catch-22
Watership Down
The Cyberiad (Lem)
Battle Cry of Freedom (James McPherson, the best single-volume treatment of the Civil War out there, IMHO).
Salem's Lot (King)
Lucifer's Hammer (Niven and Pournelle)
Dune
The English Patient (Ondaatje)
The Glitter Dome (Joe Wambaugh)





