Books you've read and re-read...
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Re: Books you've read and re-read...
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
all the Hermann Hesse stuff
The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass
all the Hermann Hesse stuff
The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass
Charlie Gravel
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authors: dickens, arthur conan doyle, james herriot, c.s lewis, lewis caroll, tolkien (NOT LOTR), diana gabaldon (outlander series), astrid lindgren, beatrix potter, a.a milne, j.m barrie, j.k rowling, t.s eliot (thanks jayhawk!)
more unknown authors: sarah-kate lynch, barbara samuel/barbara o'neal (same person), judi hendricks
the list could go on but those are the firm favorites
yes childrens classics remain a firm favorite ......
more unknown authors: sarah-kate lynch, barbara samuel/barbara o'neal (same person), judi hendricks
the list could go on but those are the firm favorites
yes childrens classics remain a firm favorite ......
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Berti - just curious what Tolkein you like that's not LOTR. While I love LOTR, I'm also a fan of Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wooten Manor, etc.
Winter's Tale is definitely a book I've read multiple time.
Hitchhiker's Guide Series
TS Eliot & Yeat's Poetry
Barry Hughart's Series (Bridge of Birds, etc.)
Tea with the Black Dragon
Princess Bride (the Morgenstern version not William Goldman's trash)
Little Big by John Crowley
Winter's Tale is definitely a book I've read multiple time.
Hitchhiker's Guide Series
TS Eliot & Yeat's Poetry
Barry Hughart's Series (Bridge of Birds, etc.)
Tea with the Black Dragon
Princess Bride (the Morgenstern version not William Goldman's trash)
Little Big by John Crowley
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jayhawk : I found LOTR too tough. Hobbit is my all time favorite but also his other books like farmer gilles of ham, roverandom and his other childrens books.
I like his childrens books better
thanks for the heads up for TS eliot. my favorites are his cat poems.
I like his childrens books better
thanks for the heads up for TS eliot. my favorites are his cat poems.
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Neuromancer by William Gibson
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 - 1945 by John Gibson
Scottish Fiddle Music of the 18th Century by David Johnson
The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
Only the first is fiction. All four are complicated enough that you kind of need to read them at least twice to understand all the connections.
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 - 1945 by John Gibson
Scottish Fiddle Music of the 18th Century by David Johnson
The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe
Only the first is fiction. All four are complicated enough that you kind of need to read them at least twice to understand all the connections.
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anything by Arhur C. Clarke (especially Childhood's End)
anything by Isaac Asimov (especially the Foundation Trilogy)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
LOTR
Mary Stewart's Arthur series (Hollow Hills, Crystal Cave, etc.)
Shogun
Flowers for Algernon
anything by Isaac Asimov (especially the Foundation Trilogy)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
LOTR
Mary Stewart's Arthur series (Hollow Hills, Crystal Cave, etc.)
Shogun
Flowers for Algernon
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Don't re-read books much, but here are a few exceptions:
The Border Trilogy (All the Pretty the Horses, The Crossing, Cities on the Plain), Cormac McCarthy
1984, George Orwell
Currently rereading Spring Snow, Yukio Mishima.
The Border Trilogy (All the Pretty the Horses, The Crossing, Cities on the Plain), Cormac McCarthy
1984, George Orwell
Currently rereading Spring Snow, Yukio Mishima.
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highland-piper wrote:Neuromancer by William Gibson.
I really enjoyed those early Gibson books, but I think he jumped the shark after Mona Lisa Overdrive.
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He's a brilliant stylist, but there's only so much mileage you can get from one metaphor.Dale wrote:highland-piper wrote:Neuromancer by William Gibson.
I really enjoyed those early Gibson books, but I think he jumped the shark after Mona Lisa Overdrive.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Martin Buber's "Tales of the Hasidim." The stories and lessons never get old for me. Plus it's a wonderfully vivid depiction of a time and place so different from my own. Also, I second whoever mentioned Kipling (sorry not to credit you, but the topic review doesn't scroll that far back). Finally, I often go back to old Hal Clement science fiction, especially "Mission of Gravity" and "Needle."
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The Beethoven Quartets by Joseph Kerman
Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland by Marjorie Blamey et al.
The Isles of Scilly by Rosemary Parslow
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Hutton's Arse by Malcolm Rider (it's an inspirational book about the geology of Scotland's northern Highlands)
I haven't read a novel since I was at school over 40 years ago, and even then it was forced on me. It was Kipps by H.G. Wells and I wouldn't touch it again with a bloody bargepole.
Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland by Marjorie Blamey et al.
The Isles of Scilly by Rosemary Parslow
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Hutton's Arse by Malcolm Rider (it's an inspirational book about the geology of Scotland's northern Highlands)
I haven't read a novel since I was at school over 40 years ago, and even then it was forced on me. It was Kipps by H.G. Wells and I wouldn't touch it again with a bloody bargepole.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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I am a fairly slow reader for some reason, and there are so many books I want to read that I simply do not re-read books. Having said that, I did re-read 'Johnny got His Gun' a year ago, the first time being when I was in high school. Iwanted to see if it affected me the same as it did then. Not so much.
I also want to re-read 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' one day. And 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
I also want to re-read 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' one day. And 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
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The Stand is a wonderful read. You might like American Gods, which is definitely an homage to it.Thomaston wrote:The Stand, Stephen King. I think I've read it at least 3 times now.
For me, I can't get enough of the Patrick O'Brian novels in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Also The Gospel of Corax, which I've read three times. I like historical fiction!
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My #1 most re-read author is Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. There is a delightful quality to the language and wonderful complexity to the story lines that does not diminish with time.
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