What books have you re-read?

Post by **Myste** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:44 pm

First_Mark_Bannor wrote:The only book i re-read (which was actully read outloud to me when i was tiny) was harry potter 1-3 :b

(emphasis mine)

Why does this make me feel old??

Welcome, First Mark Bannor!

Post by **First_Mark_Bannor** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:21 pm

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Why does this make me feel old??

Welcome, First Mark Bannor!

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lol thank you, and maybe because you havn't had a book read out-loud to you for a while

Post by **Dragonlily** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:02 am

Just reread THE FORBIDDEN TOWER, one of my favorite Marion Zimmer Bradley books. I picked it up as something to be comfortable with until I fell asleep, and it kept me awake and reading most of the night.

Post by **Usivius** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:39 pm

Generally I don't have time to read books repeatedly, but I have read Mordant's Need books about 5 times, and the other SRD books which I have read at least twice, I have read Dumas' "Three Musketeers" a number of times and Alice in Wonderland a few times. Oh, and "The Golden Ass" by Lucius Apuleaus (sp)

Post by **CovenantJr** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:47 pm

It'd be quicker to list the books I haven't re-read:

The four Harry Potters I've read
A Spell for Chameleon
The third, fourth and fifth Lawhead Pendragon books

Everything else has been read at least twice; even the ones I don't like much have at least been attempted a second time (I'm looking at you, Mercedes Lackey). I like to re-read. The only reason I haven't re-read the rest of the Pendragon Cycle is because I was distracted from my re-read by my purchase of Hyperion. I suppose the only books I've actually been reluctant to re-read are the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (as my dad's books say on them

). That's because those three books felt less like reading, more like living; for a while I wasn't sure I could ever "relive" that...

Post by **MsMary** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:03 pm

Another major re-reader checking in...

Post by **Iryssa** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:17 pm

Hmm...books I've re-read...not too many, actually. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, the First and Second Chronicles, and The Chronicles of Narnia (except The Last Battle...I never read that one until my re-read of the others)

There might be a few more, but that's all I can think of for now...

Post by **gyrehead** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:22 am

I probably reread just about every fantasy that I like. That is actually part of the criteria in determing whether I like a book. Whether I think it is worthy of being re-read.

Post by **Cheval** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:29 am

All of them
Some even multiple times.

Post by **Old Darth** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:17 pm

Covenant
Gap
Dark Tower
& many of King's books
LOTR

Post by **Myste** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:33 pm

gyrehead wrote:I probably reread just about every fantasy that I like. That is actually part of the criteria in determing whether I like a book. Whether I think it is worthy of being re-read.

I agree with you there. If a book's not worth rereading, it goes straight into the box for the Salvation Army. Normally I hate giving up books like that, and sometimes I make mistakes...once upon a time, I thought I could never reread the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and gave them away.

But for the most part, I've gotten very good at knowing when I'm going to bother rereading something or not, and adjusting my bookshelves accordingly...

Post by **Infelice** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:56 pm

Ive reread so many books..... but there are some that I continually reread.

LOTR, Hobbit, Silmarrillion
The First and Second Chrons of TC
The Vampire Chrons, The Mayfair Witches books by Anne Rice
The Belgariad and Mallorean by Eddings.
Intervention and The Galactic Milieu by Julian May

Post by **gyrehead** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:28 pm

Myste wrote:
gyrehead wrote:I probably reread just about every fantasy that I like. That is actually part of the criteria in determing whether I like a book. Whether I think it is worthy of being re-read.
I agree with you there. If a book's not worth rereading, it goes straight into the box for the Salvation Army. Normally I hate giving up books like that, and sometimes I make mistakes...once upon a time, I thought I could never reread the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and gave them away. But for the most part, I've gotten very good at knowing when I'm going to bother rereading something or not, and adjusting my bookshelves accordingly...

It is very very rare that I give away books. Very. I even have the first three of Goodkind and the Weis and Hickman books packed away somewhere. Maybe it is fear that the world as we know it will come to an end and I'll face another thirty or forty years of reading with nothing new to enjoy!

Post by **Dragonlily** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:22 pm

Every couple of years I reread the last three novels of Jane Duncan:
MY FRIEND SASHIE
MY FRIENDS THE MISSES KINDNESS (just started this one)
MY FRIENDS GEORGE AND TOM

Impossible to read one without reading the others again. She wrote her delightful "My Friends" series of novels during the 1950s thru 70s, and they never got tired, they just got better. These are my favorites. (I love Sashie.)

Post by **Dragonlily** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:17 am

Josephine Tey wrote two mysteries that I must reread every few years. BRAT FARRAR is the one I just finished. One of the most lovable villains a reader ever read -- no, I didn't say charming, I said lovable -- cons his way into a happy country family.

TO LOVE AND BE WISE is the other. A mysterious visitor throws an artist's colony into havoc with his eerie glamour.

Post by **theDespiser** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:04 am

TCTC 1 and 2, the Robot Series by Isaac Asimov(Caves of steel etc.), the Gap Cycle...i have yet to read the mordants need books again...but plan to really soon...ive read the original conan series multiple times....when i get em back ill re read em all again...(the 12 books that contain all of REH's stories, plus the unfinished ones that l sprague de camp finished)

The first series of Shannara books(screw you all!!!) and the Harry Potter books

Post by **Phantasm** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:58 pm

Another re-reader comes to play

first & second chronicles
Runes.
Galactic milieu series by Julian May.
LoTR.
The hobbit.
Shadow of the Torturer.
Cosider Phlebus.
Mort.

Post by **Phantasm** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:00 pm

Opps, forgot The Runelords series as well.

And others that don't spring readily to mind.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:30 am

Phantasm wrote:Galactic milieu series by Julian May.

One of my favorite re-reads of a lifetime.

I'm rereading Brin's first trilogy.
Also rereading, a book every few weeks, James White's Sector General series.

Post by **nuk** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:45 pm

I don't reread much. I'm too slow.
Some that I remember:

Most of SRD
LotR
Midnight's Children
Satanic Verses
Of Mice and Men
The Forever War
Some of Kurt Vonnegut

I reread Narnia and Harry Potter in Spanish because they're at the right reading level for me.
I tried a couple times to reread Crime and Punishment in Spanish, but it killed me.

And then there are those books I'm embarrassed to say I reread as a kid *cough*PiersAnthony*cough*

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What books have you re-read?