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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