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Keralen
Adept
      
Date Joined Mar 2006
Total Posts : 509
| Posted 5/21/2007 11:53 AM (GMT -4) |   | I'll be brave:
Kipling (Just So Stories; Jungle Books) (got to admit his take on imperialism is fantastical  but his writing literally sings) Dickens for just plain rich
Harry Potter - another person who rereads the series
Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising, and anything else
Diana Wynne Jones - anything
Patrick O'Brian - anything
Narnia - of course (The Horse and His Boy; The Silver Chair)
Watership Down
Bradbury, again for the language
I used to like Heinlein (Podkayne of Mars) but the sexism in the later books just disgusts me, and I'm not even a feminist.
Shall we get going on Terry Pratchett? 
James, James, it's "reshpeckowiggle" | | Back to Top | | |
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John F. Martin
Stablehand
Date Joined May 2007
Total Posts : 1
| Posted 5/31/2007 2:03 PM (GMT -4) | | *looks at two bookcases filled with books he's read at least twice*
...Right. I'll just hit the highlights.
When I first encountered Anne McCaffrey at the age of 14, I *inhaled* her work. I read the first eight books in the Pern series ('Dragonflight' to 'Nerilka's Story', all that were out at the time), and immedately turned around and reread them all.
Five more times.
Inside of two months.
Yeah. I was a little hooked there. >_>; I've probably read those eight books ten times in total. After sating myself on that binge, I slowed down and read the rest of the series normally.
Also on the 3+ reread list:
Conan book collections by Robert E. Howard.
Most of Heinlein's work, aside from his juveniles, but especially 'Number Of The Beast'.
Two Cthulhu collections by H.P. Lovecraft.
Elric series by Michael Moorcock.
The Star Trek novels 'The Vulcan Academy Murders' and 'The IDIC Epidemic' by Jean Lorrah. Mostly because I LOVE the way she portrays Vulcans in these. Sadly, after she made Data human in 'Metamorphosis', she was banned from writing ST novels. 
Callahan's Crosstime Salloon series by Spider Robinson.
Lensman series by E.E. "Doc" Smith. Classic Space Opera!
'The Hunt For Red October' by Tom Clancy. I like the rest of his work, but this is the one I reread a lot.
'Dream Park' by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes. I also like the last book in the series, 'The California Voodoo Game', but the middle one, 'The Barsoom Project', I'm not a fan of.
--John F. Martin
"Heaven save us from people who are terrified of thoughts."
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Frank
Adept
Date Joined Aug 2005
Total Posts : 628
| Posted 6/27/2007 12:05 PM (GMT -4) | | "Dis-moi ce que tu lis et je te dirai qui tu es, il est vrai mais je te connaîtrai mieux si tu me dis ce que tu relis"
- Francois Mauriac
(my own translation here)
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are, it's true, but I'll know you better if you tell me what you reread. | | Back to Top | | |
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Braksis
Warlord
Date Joined Mar 2007
Total Posts : 138
| Posted 6/29/2007 3:53 PM (GMT -4) | | I've never been a fan of rereading books. I have cabinets full of books that I haven't gotten to yet, so rereading something I already read seems somehow inefficient or unproductive.
That said, way back when Star Wars didn't have over a hundred novels, I was hooked on the Timothy Zahn trilogy (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command I believe were the names). I read the first book and loved it. When the second one came out, I read the first and second book and loved them. Then read all three when the final one came out.
Good stuff.
I actually had one of the books with me in a class at college....
It was a most....yeah, boring is the right word. Anyways, this Prof used to tilt back and forth and speak in monotone all class long. So, at some point I began bringing my Star Wars books and reading during class (the only thing that could keep me awake!). One class he called on me while reading.
Instantly alert, I tried to pass it off as "I don't know."
He stayed with me...."You know."
The only thing I knew.....
Luke was taking wires from his hand to pick / short circuit the lock when Talon Karde / Mara Jade had imprisoned him. Artoo was in the next room over. I knew THAT perfectly. Some theory of Microeconomics? Didn't have a clue what was being discussed!
Book tidbit #2.....
The girl I was seeing at the time was with me at McDonald's (maybe it was Burger Kind???). We were picking up food for a big group, and I had my book with me as always, reading whenever I had a free moment (like standing in line). I was also with another buddy at the time.
She said, "Don't worry hunny, I know that if there was a fire you would save your book before me."
Naturally, I replied that I would of course save her first over one book....
Then leaned back to my buddy: "But if it was 2 Star Wars books!!!"
That got me a little playful slap.
Okay, I'm out of this Star Wars trilogy cheezy stories (and this probably wasn't the forum for them anyway!).
Have a great weekend all!
Clifford B. Bowyer
Author of The Imperium Saga novels
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Daniel
Carl Jung's Waterboy
Date Joined Aug 2003
Total Posts : 4515
| Posted 7/3/2007 1:45 PM (GMT -4) | | 1) "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
2) "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo
3) "Psychology and Alchemy" by Carl Jung
4) "The Complete Poems of Hart Crane" (ed) by Marc Simon
5) "The Complete Poems of Sylvia Plath" (ed) by Ted Hughes
6) "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
7) "Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane" by John Untermeyer
8) "Deliverance" by James Dickey
9) "Illuminations" by Arthur Rimbaud
10) "The Palm at the End of the Mind; (ed) by Holly Stevens
Selected Poems and Prose of Wallace Stevens"
11) "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer.
I tend to read books over and over and over (like a dozen times or more!) if I like them, so the above are just ones off the top of my head. My collected "Poe" (in hardback!) and my copy of "The Godfather" are so worn out the pages are dropping like autumn leaves. I'm on my third or fourth copy of Plath's poems having worn the others all the way out and my third or fourth for Crane. I've probably got ten to twelve books where you have to hold the pages IN while you read!
The Rimbaud prose-poems are the only entry above that are there for any real *reason.* I am still working on my complete translation of his "Illuminations" prose poems. I'm grateful to the folks on this board who helped out some months back by taking a look at my initial efforts!
"Art is the celebration of the ego's destruction."
Daniel | | Back to Top | | |
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David Boultbee
Neophyte
Date Joined Aug 2007
Total Posts : 107
| Posted 8/8/2007 8:53 PM (GMT -4) | |
I love to read and I can spend hours at it. Unfortunately my wallet and my favorite authors can't keep up with my reading habits so I am constantly re-reading books. >>
Space is also an issue so only those books that I might re-read stay on my shelves.>>
Heinlein - some of earlier stuff I must have read a dozen times or more. >>
David Weber - Honor Harrington obviously but my favorite series by him are the Mutineers Moon Series. That and Path of the Fury. Having said that I don't feel that his recent re-release of PoF with the additional text adds a lot to the basic story. >>
L.E. Modesitt Jr. - I've read the early Recluse series at least three or four times, as well as some of his better SF novels. I like Flash - there's something about it that appeals to me.>>
Timothy Zahn - his non-Star Wars stuff is good and only gets better. Even his juveniles aren't bad and the idea in them is interesting and well done.>>
Steven Brust - his Vlad Talto's series is well done.>>
Stephen Gould. Not very prolific but a good storyteller with a knack for taking an existing idea and tweaking it to make it better.>>
I'm sure there's more but I don't want to bore everyone.
David Boultbee
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Nicholas
Adept
Date Joined Jun 2006
Total Posts : 957
| Posted 8/9/2007 2:42 AM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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Marius
Stablehand
Date Joined Aug 2007
Total Posts : 8
| Posted 8/26/2007 6:51 PM (GMT -4) | | Dune - have read the series at least 3 times
Thomas Covenant - both trilogies twice
Stranger in a Strange Land - three times, the last was after I found out it had be republished after his death with an additional 30k new words in it 
not SF or Fantasy, but Colleen McCullough's Caesar/Rome series 3 times
Donaldson's Gap series twice
Modessit's Order series twice
Pern series twice
Foundation series three times
Gateway (two or three books?) three times
Amber series twice
Robin Hobb - everything twice, except for the latest two books
David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series - am just starting my second time through (this time I have ALL the books at once...)
Anne Rice - everything she has written (except for the bondage stuff under a different name) at least twice | | Back to Top | | |
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ghostposts
Acolyte
Date Joined Apr 2005
Total Posts : 314
| Posted 11/15/2007 12:40 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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humboldthny
Stablehand
Date Joined Nov 2007
Total Posts : 17
| Posted 12/2/2007 4:41 PM (GMT -4) | | It's been many years since I've actually found a book I wanted to re-read...I've got a few up in the bookshelf 'aging' so I can re-read them without getting bored.
I re-read books a lot more often when I was young. When I was in grade school mine was the only name on the check out card for Ghosts I Have Been for about 3 years. I also loved The Halloween Tree by Bradbury - it's one of my favorites of all time. | | Back to Top | | |
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Despiciblus
Neophyte
Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 68
| Posted 12/6/2007 11:49 PM (GMT -4) | | The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Demon Princes series by Jack Vance, who happens to be my favorite writer.
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