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I don't know about you, but I have to REALLY love a book to read it more than once. What books have you enjoyed so much that you've read them more than once?

 

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End

Robert Silverberg - To Live Again

Robert Silverberg - Nightwings

Robert Silverberg - The Book of Skulls

Robert Silverberg - The Stochastic Man

Robert Silverbeg - The Best of Robert Silverberg

R. A. Lafferty - Nine Hundred Grandmothers

R. A. Lafferty - Strange Doings

Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human

Ken Grimwood - Replay

Piers Anthony - Macroscope

Richard Bach - Illusions

Shirley Maclaine - Out on a Limb

John-Roger - The Way Out Book

John-Roger - Relationships: The Art of Making Life Work

John-Roger - Passages Into Spirit

John-Roger - Journey of a Soul

John-Roger - Buddha Consciousness

Gary Bearman - I Sing A Parade of Light wink.gif

 

I know there have to be a lot more, but that's what I can think of right now. And some of my very favorites I've only read once...

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Fahrenheit 541

To Kill A Mocking Bird

Siddhartha

The Catcher In The Rye

The Great Gatsby

The Republic

The Symposium

The Last Days of Socrates

The Hobbit

 

There might be more.

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Off the top of my head:

 

 

 

The Hobbit

The Lord of The rings

Into The Wild - John Krakauer

Into Thin Air - John Krakauer

The Passage - Justin Cronin

Baa Baa Black Sheep - Greg Boyington

Inside out: A Personal History Of Pink Floyd - Nick Mason

 

Those 2.gif books.

 

Masked Rider (Don't know why)

Travelling Music

Watchmen - Alan Moore/ Dave Gibbons

Salem's Lot

 

To name a few.

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Every Stephen King book, except the few newest.

Lord Of The Rings (and Bored Of The Rings laugh.gif )

To Kill A Mockingbird

Ghost Rider, Roadshow and Traveling Music - Neil

Where The Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls

All of my The Big Book Of ___ published by Paragon Press

A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving

 

 

So many that I can't even think of them! http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/laserspray/internet%20stuff/smilies/smiley-confused013.gif

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The Catcher in the Rye (15+)

1984 (12 times biggrin.gif)

Fahrenheit 541

The Great Gatsby

The Hobbit

The Lord of The Rings

Animal Farm

Cat's Cradle

Slaughterhouse-Five

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Old Man and the Sea

A Farewell to Arms

Lord of the Flies

The Stand

The Tommyknockers

Hearts in Atlantis

Harry Potter series

All the Goosebumps series.. if those count at all

Pet Sematary

The Pig Man

The Kite Runner

The Giver

Brave New World

Thirteen Reasons Why

The Divine Comedy

Lolita

Catch-22

Dubliners (A collection of short stories.. not sure if it counts)

the Bible

 

 

 

more TBA

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off the top of my head...with some of my favorites closer to the top...

 

A Clockwork Orange

On the Road

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hell's Angels

The Rum Diary

Conan

Conan of Cimmeria

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Tarzan

World War Z

Catch 22

Life of Pi

1984

The Man in the High Castle

some by that drummer guy: Masked Rider, Ghost Rider, Traveling Music

Old Man and the Sea

Lord of the Flies

 

And if you count graphic novels then it'd be like a million times each for Watchmen, Kingdom Come, Marvels, Dark Knight Returns, or some of the Sandman stories.

 

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QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 13 2012, 06:55 PM)
I don't know about you, but I have to REALLY love a book to read it more than once. What books have you enjoyed so much that you've read them more than once?

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
Robert Silverberg - To Live Again
Robert Silverberg - Nightwings
Robert Silverberg - The Book of Skulls
Robert Silverberg - The Stochastic Man
Robert Silverbeg - The Best of Robert Silverberg
R. A. Lafferty - Nine Hundred Grandmothers
R. A. Lafferty - Strange Doings
Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human
Ken Grimwood - Replay
Piers Anthony - Macroscope
Richard Bach - Illusions
Shirley Maclaine - Out on a Limb
John-Roger - The Way Out Book
John-Roger - Relationships: The Art of Making Life Work
John-Roger - Passages Into Spirit
John-Roger - Journey of a Soul
John-Roger - Buddha Consciousness
Gary Bearman - I Sing A Parade of Light wink.gif

I know there have to be a lot more, but that's what I can think of right now. And some of my very favorites I've only read once...

WHOA!!! I was such a Silverberg fan growing up, I have read just about everything of his more than once.

 

Kind of very very late so I am just going to copy and paste, from others post... maybe more later.

 

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End

The Hobbit

1984

Slaughterhouse-Five

Brave New World

The Divine Comedy

A Clockwork Orange

On the Road

Lord of the Flies

 

Some that come immediately to mind

 

A lot of the Verne stuff

Fire and Ice Series

Foundation

Moby Dick

Lucifer's Hammer

Dune

 

A Prayer for Owen Meany

 

J. G. Ballard stuff

The Atrocity Exhibition

Empire of the Sun

The Kindness of Women

 

 

Mars Trilogy red/green/blue KSR

 

A Brief History of Time

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.

 

A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya

Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book of The Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings

 

Citizens by Simon Schama

Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life by Alan Schom

 

Guns Germs and Steel

 

 

 

 

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QUOTE (rushlady23 @ Jul 22 2012, 11:35 AM)
Thinner
The Dark Half
The Tommyknockers

All I can think of right now...

I remember my mom had Thinner. And she was a Steven King fan, so she also had The Tommyknockers, but I don't think she actually read it.

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Red Dwarf - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

Red Dwarf - Better Than Life

Red Dwarf - Last Human

Red Dwarf - Backwards

2001

2010

2061

Songs of Distant Earth

The Stars Are Also Fire

American Psycho

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Vol. 1

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Vol. 2

Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Vol. 3

Heathen -( Shaun Hutson)

Victims - (Shaun Hutson)

 

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This strikes me as a weird thread. Pretty much every book I have ever read once that I have liked, I have read at least twice. In many instances, I enjoyed the books more in subsequent reads than the initial one.

 

I would say that 80% if the books I have read as an adult, I have read multiple times.

 

Is this unusual? I always thought everyone did it this way. Is something wrong with me? Do I have some problem with completion or reconciliation? Perhaps I can't commit an ending. Perhaps some latent fear? A brain tumor? What the hell is wrong with me.

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QUOTE (Finding IT @ Jul 24 2012, 05:23 PM)
This strikes me as a weird thread. Pretty much every book I have ever read once that I have liked, I have read at least twice. In many instances, I enjoyed the books more in subsequent reads than the initial one.

I would say that 80% if the books I have read as an adult, I have read multiple times.

Is this unusual? I always thought everyone did it this way. Is something wrong with me? Do I have some problem with completion or reconciliation? Perhaps I can't commit an ending. Perhaps some latent fear? A brain tumor? What the hell is wrong with me.

No, i do not think it is unusual.

 

In no way does that affect the reality that it is a crazy thing to do.

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QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 13 2012, 06:55 PM)

Gary Bearman - I Sing A Parade of Light

Per the author...

 

25 years in the making, this is an uplifting book of spiritual poetry like you've never read before. It's a short book of quality over quantity, and one that is as deep, heartfelt and meaningful as I've been able to translate into words in an accessible way, designed to lift your spirit and open you to a wider, more wonderful world of infinite love and possibilities. Enjoy!

 

Sounds like a good read!

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QUOTE (OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan @ Jul 13 2012, 08:28 PM)


The Hobbit
The Lord of The rings
Into The Wild - John Krakauer
Into Thin Air - John Krakauer

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QUOTE (t2s @ Jul 14 2012, 01:37 AM)
The Catcher in the Rye (15+)

Animal Farm

The Old Man and the Sea

Lord of the Flies

Brave New World

Catch-22

the Bible



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