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GatorDeb 09-19-08 08:26 AM

Which books have you read multiple times?
 
I've only read 2 books multiple times. I read Catcher In The Rye twice, and now I'm reading The Giver for the third time. I want to re-read The Sound And The Fury.

conscience 09-19-08 09:40 AM

Election, Tom Perrotta

I actually think that's the only novel that I've read more than once. :o

DJLinus 09-19-08 09:57 AM

Aside from "The Far Side" and "Bloom County" collections, Catcher in the Rye, A Farewell to Arms, Holidays on Ice (David Sedaris), Parliament of Whores (P.J. O'Rourke)

I've listened to a couple of David Sedaris' books on CD multiple times.

Fist of Doom 09-19-08 10:10 AM

I've read The Hobbit numerous times. It was the first book I fell in love with as a kid.

Lastyear 09-19-08 04:16 PM

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Kurt Vonnegut's pre 1975 books. Water Music by T.C. Boyle. All of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee books.

Bibliophile4 09-19-08 06:54 PM

John Berendt's Midnight In the Garden of Good & Evil, Wuthering Heights, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon.

tofu 09-20-08 10:31 AM

The Phantom Tollbooth and Catcher in the Rye

tonyc3742 09-20-08 11:28 AM

Stranger in a Strange Land
Youth in Revolt
Replay
Phantom Tollbooth (once with my boy, so sharing with him is a little different from just rereading it on my own)
D'auliare's Greek Myths
Probably a couple more Heinlein or Asimov books.

TimeandTide 09-20-08 04:06 PM

Aside from the books I teach, the only ones I've read multiple times are The Road, Blackhawk Down, Be True to Your School, and The Princess Bride.

mljones99 09-20-08 08:56 PM

0 but I want to go back and read The Jungle again.

Moleman1138 09-20-08 09:06 PM

All 7 Harry Potter Books at least twice

Gilgamesh1082 09-20-08 09:19 PM

Wheel of Time series around 8 or 9 times
Ender's Game roughly 20 times
Belgariad and Mallorean roughly 10 times
Riftwar, Riftwar Legacy, Serpentwar, and the series with Talon in it roughly 4 or 5 times

Whole lot of others once or twice.

TimeandTide 09-21-08 12:04 AM


Originally Posted by Gilgamesh1082 (Post 8952299)
Wheel of Time series around 8 or 9 times

:jawdrop:

ninjalove 09-21-08 04:22 AM

Any Nabokov book needs to be read 12 times.

Josh-da-man 09-21-08 05:17 AM

I've probably read Neuromancer seven or eight times.

GatorDeb 09-21-08 05:51 AM


Originally Posted by Gilgamesh1082 (Post 8952299)
Wheel of Time series around 8 or 9 times
Ender's Game roughly 20 times
Belgariad and Mallorean roughly 10 times
Riftwar, Riftwar Legacy, Serpentwar, and the series with Talon in it roughly 4 or 5 times

Whole lot of others once or twice.

You win. Thread closed.

P.S. just kidding ;) That's a lot of reading, though.

tasha99 09-21-08 01:23 PM

Pride and Prejudice is pretty much the only book I can think of having read several times due to my own choice (I'm assuming you mean novels--I've read several poetry books over and over). I've reread some books for classes, and other books aloud to my kids, but I'm not counting those.

JP5683 09-22-08 02:26 AM

Lots, I read pretty quick.

Right now, I'm re-reading the Earth's Children series for about the fifth time.

celmendo 09-22-08 10:26 AM

Golden Torc and Intervention series by Julian May. Love those
Dune
LOTR & Hobbit
The Stand - Stephen King
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Sonja Blue series - Nancy Collins

All twice, I'm sure there are others.

Rockmjd23 09-22-08 10:27 AM

LOTR/Hobbit
most Crichton books
a bunch of horror encyclopedias
The Bible

iggystar 09-22-08 12:10 PM

I can't think of any book since I was little that I've re-read. Back in the day I read my Judy Blume's over and over, but there are too many new books I want read for me to revisit any now.

jdodd 09-22-08 02:15 PM

Dune series (I think I've gone 3 or 4 with those)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (5 or 6 times)
Salem's Lot and The Stand (Stephen King)
1984
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
Ender's Game

I'm sure there are others, but none are leaping to mind right now.

Bibliophile4 09-22-08 06:10 PM


Originally Posted by JP5683 (Post 8954277)
Lots, I read pretty quick.

Right now, I'm re-reading the Earth's Children series for about the fifth time.

I get as far as the third book and then stop re-reading. :(

Ephemeral_Life 09-22-08 07:55 PM

John Christopher - The Tripods (many times)
Pausewang - The Last Children of Schewenborn (three or four times)
Harry Potter Series (twice)
Stephen King -The Stand (twice)
Stephen King - Dark Tower I through IV (twice)
Tolkien - The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings (twice)

There are several nonfiction books I have read partially or completely several times.

mlemmond 09-29-08 01:43 PM

I usually read The Count Of Monte Cristo once a year or every other year.


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