Captain Hindsight Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I'm looking for a new book to read as I find myself returning to the same one for big transitions in life (I just finished grad school). For my its the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Lots of good lessons in this story that I've related to differently at different points in my life. What books have you read multiple times? Any good recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFergy Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 "To Kill a Mockingbird" , "Catcher in the Rye" and Follett's "Pillars of the Earth". Have also read "The Gold Coast" and "The Gate House" numerous times...very witty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LB3 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) What kind of books do you prefer? I like all types but tend to steer more to fantasy/science fiction. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Really good quick read. The Wheel of Time Series - Fantasy/sci-fi. My all time favorite. A big time investment though as it's 14 books averaging around 700-800 pages each. The Passage - Newer, cool spin on the vampire genre. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Edited January 28, 2015 by KikoSeeBallKikoGetBall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeviF Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 "Confederacy of Dunces" - John Kennedy Toole "Light In August"- William Faulkner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beef Jerky Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Tuesday- David Wiesner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUFFALOKIE Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) I'm looking for a new book to read as I find myself returning to the same one for big transitions in life (I just finished grad school). For my its the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Lots of good lessons in this story that I've related to differently at different points in my life. What books have you read multiple times? Any good recommendations? David Copperfield. Treasure Island. The Hobbit. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Green Eggs and Ham. Edited January 28, 2015 by THE KIKO MONSTER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 2) Barbarians at the Gate. Riveting re-telling of the RJR Nabisco LBO in the 80s-- reads like a novel. Great book. I can't think of any I've read more than once. My list is long enough as it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange land Isaac Asimov Foundation Trilogy C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength Ray Brabury Martian Chronicles Something Wicked This Way Comes Kahlil Gibran The Prophet ...for starters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I've read too many books multiple times, but if I had to recommend just one, it would be 'Mort' by Terry Pratchett. Death takes on a young apprentice, and once the boy is trained, goes on a vacation. It's very funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Robert A Heinlein Stranger in a Strange land Isaac Asimov Foundation Trilogy C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength Ray Brabury Martian Chronicles Something Wicked This Way Comes Kahlil Gibran The Prophet ...for starters Just about anything by Heinlein, really. About every two or three years I go on this Heinlein jag and binge-read damn near all his books, in publication order. Also: Dune. I've read that book maybe 18 times, and every time I read it again I find something new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poblano Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 For me a must read definitely is houndred years of solitude(cien años de soledad) de Gabriel García Márquez,last year i did it for third time, but i'm mexican so i prefer latinamerican novels. Also want to read again ensayo sobre la ceguera de Jose Saramago(portuguese writer) i think in US is blindness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpile Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Just about anything by Heinlein, really. About every two or three years I go on this Heinlein jag and binge-read damn near all his books, in publication order. Also: Dune. I've read that book maybe 18 times, and every time I read it again I find something new. I am the same way with Heinlein, Herbert (Dune), Asimov, and a few others. Sometimes I will see a book at a yard sale that I own and I have read. I will buy it cheap and randomly give it to someone I think will enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth on hold Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Moby Dick Only fiction I've read 2x. First time in high school when I couldn't relate. About a decade later reread and found it essential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I'm looking for a new book to read as I find myself returning to the same one for big transitions in life (I just finished grad school). For my its the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Lots of good lessons in this story that I've related to differently at different points in my life. What books have you read multiple times? Any good recommendations? After the Flood by Bill Cooper; Absolutely fascinating history of our Ancestors and early European history , I've read it 4 times. 'When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven; but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave everyone his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon....After this they were dispersed abroad, on account of their languages, and went out by colonies everywhere; and each colony took possession of that land which they lighted upon, and unto which God led them; so that the whole continent was filled with them, both the inland and maritime countries. There were some also who passed over the sea in ships, and inhabited the islands; and some of these nations do still retain the names which were given to them by their first founders; but some also have lost them...The Sybil (Josephus. Antiq. i. 5.) http://ldolphin.org/cooper/contents.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I've got too many books in my "to be read" stack to even consider reading some twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 i can say with close to 100% certainty that i have never wasted my time reading a book more than once....reading a book once is bad enough in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Only read them one time. Reading now. The 500 by Matthew Quirk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Very haunting book ...have not read in 30 years. For me Jitterbug Perfume , Still Life with Woodpecker, and Another Roadside Attraction.....all by Tom Robbins. Jitterbug Perfume like 4 times. Running to the Mountain...A Midlife Adventure....Jon Katz...Examining how to give meaning to life at mid age...good for us old fuggers Snow in August and A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill..one fiction one non fiction.. Edited January 28, 2015 by plenzmd1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFergy Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Very haunting book ...have not read in 30 years. For me Jitterbug Perfume , Still Life with Woodpecker, and Another Roadside Attraction.....all by Tom Robbins. Jitterbug Perfume like 4 times. Running to the Mountain...A Midlife Adventure....Jon Katz...Examining how to give meaning to life at mid age...good for us old fuggers Snow in August and A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill..one fiction one non fiction.. Jon Katz lives right down the road from me. I talk with him from time to time. That book was based on his first house (really a camp) off Colfax Mtn. I believe. He has since bought a small farm, raised sheep, etc., then sold that farm and bought a smaller farm with some sheep, dogs, etc. He has a blog online and is generally perceived as a good fellow around this area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Jon Katz lives right down the road from me. I talk with him from time to time. That book was based on his first house (really a camp) off Colfax Mtn. I believe. He has since bought a small farm, raised sheep, etc., then sold that farm and bought a smaller farm with some sheep, dogs, etc. He has a blog online and is generally perceived as a good fellow around this area. Thats cool...seems like he would be a great guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Fischer Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I, Claudius - Robert Graves The First Man in Rome - Colleen McCullogh Read in early 20s but 15-20 years later I had a much better understanding of Rome history and like each book even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebandit27 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 The Wheel of Time Series - Fantasy/sci-fi. My all time favorite. A big time investment though as it's 14 books averaging around 700-800 pages each. /thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 1984. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I don't think I've ever reread an entire book. I've re read certain portions. I've read through portions of Keith Richards' autobiography a few times as that was my bathroom reading. When I was a kid, the acid trip portion of "That Was Then, This is Now" fascinated me for some reason, and read that over and over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cugalabanza Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions Raymond Carver Where I’m Calling From Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Denis Johnson Jesus’ Son David Foster Wallace A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again Italo Calvino A Baron in the Trees George Saunders CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, In Persuasion Nation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeviF Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Very haunting book ...have not read in 30 years. The film adaptation is very good as well. Dubliners by James Joyce. It's a collection of short stories, much more readable than Ulysses. The Brothers Karamazov, the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, by Dostoyevsky. Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov. Naive. Super by Erlend Loe. The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Playboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Playboy We're talking about reading. As in like, words and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffaloboyinATL Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I have re-read quite a few books, but the one that stands out (pun not intended) is Stephen King's The Stand. I really enjoyed it the first time I read it and then he re-released it many years later with several hundred new pages added back in. The second release was the way he had actually intended the book to be the first time, but because he was a relative unknown when it was released they edited it down to around 850 pages. He re-released it much later after he became so successful, with the original content, which was closer to 1,200 pages. I enjoyed it even more the second time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 We're talking about reading. As in like, words and stuff. my bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Letters to Penthouse Joking aside (or am I?)... The Stand by Stephen King CBF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) Just about anything by Heinlein, really. About every two or three years I go on this Heinlein jag and binge-read damn near all his books, in publication order. Also: Dune. I've read that book maybe 18 times, and every time I read it again I find something new. Dune is the best sci fi ever written and stands the test of holding its own outside of sci fi. Because we've deviated into a sci fi discussion, I'll throw out a fantastic series that I found long after I thought I was out of the sci fi genre: Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's a 4 books series with the first two and second two books acting as their own stories. I don't reread many books but I might reread it. On the topic of rereading books, I generally stick to the classics: David Copperfield East of Eden Pride and Prejudice Manchester's bio of Churchill The Last Lion is one of the great works of the English language Just a few. Edited January 28, 2015 by Observer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Just about anything by Heinlein, really. About every two or three years I go on this Heinlein jag and binge-read damn near all his books, in publication order. Also: Dune. I've read that book maybe 18 times, and every time I read it again I find something new. What? No Starship Troopers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeviF Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 What? No Starship Troopers? Love that book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acantha Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I've ready a bunch of books twice, but there's only two I continue to read occasionally, and they're both childhood favorites that I read out of nostalgia; Where the Red Fern Grows and Enders Game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LB3 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I've ready a bunch of books twice, but there's only two I continue to read occasionally, and they're both childhood favorites that I read out of nostalgia; Where the Red Fern Grows and Enders Game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmu1977 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Killer angels, its about Gettysburg, I love the civil war stuff. World war Z, way better than the movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Riverside Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 The Stand by Stephen King Gets better every time i read it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 I've ready a bunch of books twice, but there's only two I continue to read occasionally, and they're both childhood favorites that I read out of nostalgia; Where the Red Fern Grows and Enders Game. I've read Enders Game a few times too. Its a really cool story. I want to read the Hobbit again and the LOTR series. Ive seen Dune in here a few times. I can't remember if I read that in high school or not. Killer Angels I've read as well. That was a fantastic story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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