Books you've read many times

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

inspired by KPH

which books have you read three or more times?

Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
Animal Farm - Orwell
Cathcer in the Rye
The Body - Steven King
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Great Gatsby
Johnny's in The Basement - some teenager book, not sure who it's buy.

KPH · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 3:14 pm

Lot 49
Generation X
Microserfs
Death in Venice
Underworld (twice)

Had to re-read a few books in several different classes throughout college, particularly Bovary, The Stranger, The Trial, etc. God help me if I ever have to read Bovary again. Argh.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 4:07 pm

Geez. Almost too many to name. I'm a serial re-reader. Just the main HST canon (Hells Angels, Vegas, Campaign Trail, Shark Hunt, Curse of Lono Generation of Swine, Songs of the Doomed, & Better Than Sex) I've read minimum five and probably closer to ten or more times each. No lie.

Others off the top of my head:

The Great Gatsby
The Son Also Rises
Electric Koolaid Acid Test
Lonesome Dove
The Bogey Man
North Dallas Forty
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
American Tabloid/Cold Six Thousand

there's more.

shmoo · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 4:10 pm

I can't think of anything I've read more than twice, actually. Maybe The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe...

tentoze · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 4:16 pm

Among a lot of others:

All of Vonnegut up through about Breakfast of Champions
Durrell's Alexandria Quartet
Grass's Dog Years and The Tin Drum
Matthiessen's Far Tortuga and At Play IN The Fields Of The Lord
Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany

tt · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 4:19 pm

tropic of cancer
anna karenina
i might re-read "brave new world", what a crazy world they lived in. imagine monogamy being socially unacceptable, crazy al!

oh yeah, "biff bang pow! the story of creation records". gots to memorize the history of my hero ya know?

fuse · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 5:11 pm

The stuff I've taught through the years.

also:

Moby Dick
On the Road
Gatsby
Goodbye, Columbus - prob. my favorite book of all time.

Amazing how perspective changes through the years.

Verbal Intercourse · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 5:14 pm

tt Wrote:

brave new world

i can't stand this.

tt · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 5:21 pm

Verbal Intercourse Wrote:

tt Wrote:

brave new world

i can't stand this.

it's weird isn't it? i think that's why i'm intrigued by it.

south pacific · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 5:24 pm

Excellent post.

Often I'll re-read stuff I really like:

All of Roald Dahl books
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Porno
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
JD Salinger - Catcher In The Rye
Peter Mayle - A Year In Provence
Haruki Murakami - The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Norweigan Wood, A Wild Sheep Chase
Nicholson Baker - Vox
Karl Taro Greenfeld - Speed Tribes
Ha Jin - Waiting
Mikhail Bulgakov - Heart Of a Dog, Master and Margarita
Bill Bryson - Neither Here Nor There
Stephen King - The Stand, various collections of his short stories

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 6:18 pm

Yeah, I've read a lot of books multiple times over. My favorites though include:

Redwork by Michael Bedard
Quiet Days In Clichy by Henry Miller
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Hamlet by Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
everything by Salinger

and countless, countless children's books including Alice, Ramona, Winnie The Pooh, The Great Brain, The Indian In The Cupboard, and everything by Roald Dahl.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 6:25 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Geez. Almost too many to name. I'm a serial re-reader. Just the main HST canon (Hells Angels, Vegas, Campaign Trail, Shark Hunt, Curse of Lono Generation of Swine, Songs of the Doomed, & Better Than Sex)

I'm a serial re-reader too, most of these.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 6:34 pm

1984

need a reread before dumya leaves office

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Yail Bloor Wrote:

The Sun Also Rises

I just started re-reading this one.

(having just gone to France & Spain)

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Geez. Almost too many to name. I'm a serial re-reader

yeah, I revisit everything i've ever read and liked and can't understand people that think that's strange because always find some new thing to be amazed by. Most chronically I re-read Nabokov, Erickson, David Foster Wallace, Coupland, Fitzgerald, many others, graphic novels, the stack of skyscraper magazines next to my toilet...

gauchebag · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 7:46 pm

mine is very simliar to jewels santana.

cat's cradle is definitely my number one reread of all time.

the great gatsby is probably number two.

then probably slaughterhouse-five.

then this thom yorke biography i have on my nighstand

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

vonnegut is perfect for re-reading.
short and sweet.

i've also read The Godfather a bunch of times.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

i dont re-read books. too many books I have never read.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

rparis74 Wrote:

i dont re-read books. too many books I have never read.

i think that's silly

gauchebag · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 8:41 pm

jewels santana Wrote:

vonnegut is perfect for re-reading.
short and sweet.

exactly. i always bring cat's cradle with me whenever i travel anywhere as i know it will never bore and will always get me through a long flight/train ride/whatever. i don't now about "sweet" though.

1984 is another one i serially reread, like every summer.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Sat May 13, 2006 9:39 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Geez. Almost too many to name. I'm a serial re-reader. Just the main HST canon (Hells Angels, Vegas, Campaign Trail, Shark Hunt, Curse of Lono Generation of Swine, Songs of the Doomed, & Better Than Sex) I've read minimum five and probably closer to ten or more times each. No lie.

Others off the top of my head:

The Great Gatsby
The Son Also Rises
Electric Koolaid Acid Test
Lonesome Dove
The Bogey Man
North Dallas Forty
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
American Tabloid/Cold Six Thousand

there's more.

Thanks for making my response easy, GARNEY!

(and now y'all can start to understand why Yail and I can have conversations in which you understand none of the content.

daystar · **Joined:** Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:14 pm **Posts:** 3298

everything salinger
to kill a mockingbird ~ harper lee
the great gatsby ~ fitzgerald
the awakening ~ kate chopin
on the road ~ kerouac
dharma bums ~ kerouac
the bell jar ~ sylvia plath

are you there god, it's me, margaret ~ judy blume
(no. i'm not kidding. :lol:

)

Promethium · **Posted:** Sun May 14, 2006 1:00 am

Slaugherhouse Five
Player Piano
VALIS
Mother Night
Breakfast of Champions
Bluebeard

Kerre Li (xix) · **Posted:** Sun May 14, 2006 1:01 am

all Roald Dahl
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Elementary Particles - Houellebecq
Tender is the Night- F. Scott
History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters- Julian Barnes
Franny and Zooey

Kabob · **Posted:** Sun May 14, 2006 1:59 am

Count of Monte Cristo- Dumbass
An American Childhood- Dillard
Siddhartha- Hesse
The Power of One- Courtenay
I and Thou- Buber ... and I'm still not smart enough to REALLY get it.

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