What books do you read again and again?

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   Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

   When I was a kid I read Heidi over and over again.  Someone gave me a really nice, big, copy of it; and I liked that it had "little writing like a grown-up has".
   
   Other than that, I'm not one for "book re-runs".  I did go over the Phantom of the Opera a few times, trying to figure out some stuff.   

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   pisean282311posted 14 years ago

   fountain head , experiment of truth by mahatma , gita ,five point some one, rich dad are few which i keep reading again and again...

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   hutchy-rantsposted 14 years ago

   Lord of the rings! I must have read it 20 times...

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   mistwigposted 14 years ago

   little women
   pride and prejudice
   little men
   david copperfield
   anything by victoria holt
   christine feehan carpathian series
   a book is always better than the movie
   ive read so many books i cant remember them all,,, so many books, so little time

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   camloposted 14 years ago

   Harald and Maude by Colin Higgins, Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

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   DeathMcGunzposted 14 years ago

   For me, it usually takes something (of which I haven't quite identified) for me to get into a book, and even more of that something for me to read it again. The only books I have found with "that thing" are:
   
   The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
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   Ender's Game

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   poetvixposted 14 years ago

   Nothing is better to me than coffee, cigs, and an old friend, i.e. a good book.  Some of my faves have been mentioned but I may have some that have not.
   Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series
   Earth's Children Series
   Chonicles of Valdamar by Mercedes Lackey
   Orson Scott Cards Ender's Game Series
   Anne Rice's The Mayfair Witches (thought I was gonna say vamps huh?)
   Lumley's Necroscope Series
   and my new found addition to this list that I have only read twice but love, love, love the characters...
   J.R. Ward's Black Daggar Brotherhood Series
   Yes, I like to read series...stand alones typically leave me wanting unless it is Steven King's The Stand or, of course, Gone /w the Wind.

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   Eric Graudinsposted 14 years ago

   Ayn Rand: "Atlas Shrugged". Written over 50 years ago, it accurately describes the times we live in.
   It's good fun putting current names to the characters in the book.
   
   Jeremy Clarkson - love his writing sytle
   
   Maxwell Maltz - Psycho Cybernetics.
   
   Goon Show Scripts.
   
   
   There ya go.
   Plenty of material for armchair psychoanalysts to go to town on me

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   Michael Ray Kingposted 14 years ago

   Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlien
   The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlien
   The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
   A Song of Ice and Fire (series) by George R. R. Martin
   The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

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    thirdmilleniumposted 14 years ago

    Alistair McLean, Agatha Christie, The Man by Irwing Wallace and more than anything else PG Wodehouse.

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    Flightkeeperposted 14 years ago

    For classics, yup can't beat an Agatha Christie mystery.

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    philip carey 61posted 14 years ago

    Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" (poetry); Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Essays: First Series".  I've never read a novel twice. I feel like there are too many I need to read once.

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    shellyakinsposted 14 years ago

    The Giver by Lois Lowery
    The Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach
    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
    Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
    
    I don't reread a lot.  Once I know how the book ends, I don't really want to read it again.  Also, I have so many books on my TBR list that are new and exciting.

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    mqueeposted 14 years ago

    I can't count the times I have read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. I guess it re-enforces what my parents taught me when I was young, that hard work (and a little luck) pay off.

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    Tusitala Tomposted 14 years ago

    I have four shelves filled with books, many of which I've read several times.  Mostly I read for education, to learn.  Less often I read simply to enjoy the story.  And less often again I read simply to enjoy the magnificent prose and the visualizations conjured up from same.
    
    One book, Essays Old and New, I bought in the 1960s.   Just picture this, from the opening sentence Hilaire Belloc's essay, The Mowing of a Field.
    
    "There is a valley in South England remote from ambition and fear, where the passage of strangers is rare and unperceived, and where the scent of the grass in summer is breathed only by those who are native to that unvisited land.

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    JillKostowposted 14 years ago

    My favorite book that I have read countless times is Go Ask Alice.  Also I love to read Flowers in the Attic along with the rest of that book series!!!!

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    fucsiaposted 14 years ago

    "one hundred years of solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
    
    I love the musicality of his sentences, and history repeats itself, as if never passed the time. For me it is brilliant, and every time that I read it I find it even more brillant!

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    Jaggedfrostposted 14 years ago

    I don't think I own a book that I haven't read multiple times.  one of the books I wish I had but don't and still managed to check them out of the library multiple times was: The Black Trillium

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    Sweetsusiegposted 14 years ago

    I have stacks of books that I read over and over again!!  Have a few favorite Authors too...  To list a few...  Katherine E. Woodiwiss (she has passed on from this life, but I do have her last book, as well as all of her other ones 'The Wolf and the Dove was one of the first 'adult' books I ever read)
    Charlaine Harris - Gotta love those Sookie Stackhouse books!
    Janet Evanovich -  Stephanie Plum is GREAT
    Patricia Cornwell - Scarpetta is my hero!
    
    Every now and then my hubby goes thru my books and finds places to hide them, well I just go a buy it all over again!

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    Dani257posted 14 years ago

    Easier question would be what books DON'T I read again and again.  But, right now, the book I keep going back to is Jane Eyre.  I also tend to read Little Women at least once a year.

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    Windsweptplainsposted 14 years ago

    I've read the King Raven Trilogy many times, and I love revisiting old classics again and again. Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Our Mutual Friend never get old.

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    Bobbimarie123posted 14 years ago

    I really love my brother sam is dead i think that one is great and i love the vampire academy

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    megs11237posted 14 years ago

    A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin *and all others in series
    anything by Deepak Chopra- always gives me perspective
    all of Dr. Seuss' books ( to my kids all the time)

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    tomsumposted 14 years ago

    I grew up with Harry Potter, and I must admit I have read those quite a few times

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    Howard Allenposted 14 years ago

    Most of George Orwell's novels. Especially Nineteen Eighty-Four, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and Burmese Days.

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    Extinct Soulposted 14 years ago

    The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery..specially its chapter 21..^_^ hihihi I don't know why.

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    Rose's Marieposted 14 years ago

    it depends on the mood im in. i find myself reading the classics like the jane austin books over and over & i love poetry so my poetry books are worn down pretty good from reading them so much, and if i'm in the mood to just read for a lil bit before going to bed i'll pick a book i've already read so i don't get caught up in it & stay up all night

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    Ingeniraposted 14 years ago

    I think I am the weird one here, as I love parenting books, and I like to go through them again and again. The one I like most is "Different Children different needs" by Dr. Charles Boyd. I am pretty much the person who reads to solve problems in my life....
    
    Don't get me wrong, I love literature, novel, story stuff too. But I haven't found one that I'd read repeatedly.

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    Alya roseposted 14 years ago

    For me it's the Harry Potter books,I've re-read them about once a year,they never get old to me.Love it.

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    whiteboysoulposted 14 years ago

    I tend to read series over and over again:
    
    LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy
    DUNE series
    William Gibson's SPRAWL trilogy and BRIDGE trilogy
    The works of Haruki Murakami
    
    Peace, Terry

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    Anthea Carsonposted 14 years ago

    Gone with the Wind

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    24-hrs-online.composted 14 years ago

    Hi everyone,
    
    I am glad to know some of the books which are read over and over again. Certainly some of these books have a sense of emotional attachment. Some of these books are written on such a common character of our daily life that these books fit in nicely on one or more aspects of our own life experiences of love, hate, success, achievement, respect and future goals.
    
    So we feel like completely involved in these books.
    
    Apart from what is alreay said, I would like to say, The Quran is one of the book which I have read over and over again. I just cant get tired of reading this book. I have read one page may be fifty time in one day and I am reading that page since last couple of months. I still wants to read more and more...

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