Which book have you reread the most?

[jpgray]

[Book Lover]

1. Doorways in the Sand

by Roger Zelazny. I read it at least once a year, and in college, I read it every few months - more relevant then as the main character is a perennial college student.

[El Fuego]

61. I love that book!!!!!

I'm amazed anyone else has heard of it. That was the first Zelazny book I ever read, I picked it up by chance in high school. I still remember quotes from it, and I haven't re-read it in years.

[Book Lover]

64. "You are a living example

of the absurdity of things." :-)

[El Fuego]

65. DO YOU SMELL ME DED?

"History?"
"Not the department. The phenomenon."

:7

[Book Lover]

69. "It's some kind of

reversing thing. They're studying it."

"... and you said he was an ass who thought when he graduated he'd get the Holy Grail instead of a license to help people."

[El Fuego]

73. ". . . I saw a six-foot-plus kangaroo standing beside the wombat."

"It considered me through a pair of dark glasses as it removed a sandwich bag from its pouch."

"'Peanut butter is rich in protein,' it said."

[elehhhhna]

96. Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

Hawaii by Michener (weird, I know.)

The Poisonwood Bible.

[CO Liberal]

2. The Phone Book

But only one line at a time.....

[SCDem]

6. What edition are you on?

[CO Liberal]

11. Right Now, The 2005-06 Pueblo, CO Edition

:-)

[flamingyouth]

3. To Kill A Mockingbird

[Bzzzz]

79. I'm with...

ya on that one!

[JimmyJazz]

4. On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Oh and Harriet the Spy - but's that's when I was a kid.

[Abelman]

14. awesome book

I just read for the second time, but it was a long time since my first.

[Joe Power]

128. Same Here *nt*

[lisa58]

5. To Kill a Mockingbird

[blondeatlast]

110. Same here, I must have read it at least a dozen times.

Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[NoSheep]

7. Slaughterhouse Five

[BOHICA06]

8. The Defense of Duffer's Drift

Always good to review such basic tactics.

Followed by both Jungle Books ..... ahhhh Kipling

[u4ic]

9. The People of the Abyss - Jack London

[iamjoy]

10. Gone With The Wind

Although "The Handmaid's Tale" and Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" are other favorites.

Of course, this doesn't count children's books.

If someone posted this question to the Freepers do you think the answer would be the bible?

[Blue-Jay]

12. Uniden SL-400 Cordless Telephone Owner's Manual

It's a real page-turner.

[alwynsw]

28. Yup.

About the time you get it down pat, the phone gives up the ghost and you get a whole new book to learn.

[sundog]

13. Gnomes

:P

[Book Lover]

17. I love that book!

My grandmother gave me a copy when I was very young. I loved the art and the stories; plus we had a tree in our backyard that she convinced me gnomes lived under. For some reason I never questioned how gnomes could end up living in the backyard of a row house in Queens. Maybe I thought they emigrated like everyone else...

[jpgray]

18. Dude, that has topless gnomes in it

Scarred me horribly as I flipped nonchalantly through it at the house of my ex's parents.

[chickenscratching]

19. thats so cool

i have that book as well!
it's so beautiful...i love the drawings of the gnomes from around the world.

[jpgray]

15. The Brothers Karamazov

The first time I read that, I was so shocked to realize that every character perfectly described someone I knew, as a whole or in parts.

[StaggerLee]

38. Freaky

I just started reading this! I can't wait to get deeper.

[RubyDuby in GA]

16. Ride the Wind

A fictionalized account of the life of Cynthia Ann Parker who was captured and raised as a Comanche.

I love this book.

[Abelman]

20. Hmm...

I reread the Chronicles of Narnia and the Lloyd Alexander Book of Three books every few years.

I can't really remember. I don't think I've read many books more than twice. Maybe Maus, I've read that a few times.

[pstans]

21. Tao of Pooh

The Tao of Pooh. It is a very interesting look at life and religion demonstrated from the Winnie the Pooh series.

[chickenscratching]

22. room with a view

by em forester

[ChaoticSilly]

23. Destination Void - Frank Herbert

Yes, I'm a geek. :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

24. Lord of the Rings. Like four times, then listened to it on audio book

Or from when I was younger, Ella Enchanted, I've reread that a few times too. :)

[Bossy Monkey]

54. I think I'm up in the thirties. Used to read it something more than

annually. When I started to find that I had entire passages memorized, I slowed up a bit. (Or maybe I just discovered the Internet.:))

[RevolutionaryActs]

55. hahaha, oh just wait I'll be there at some point.

I only read it for the first time 4 years go. :)

I do have a good memory for remembering books though, I've got somethings memorized already. :7

[mcscajun]

70. Read it every year beginning on the day the book opens.

I've thoroughly lost count of the number of times I've read it.

[alwynsw]

25. Whatever's in the bathroom!

[Balbus]

26. The First Man in Rome

The whole "Masters of Rome" series as a matter of fact.

[bigwillq]

27. Friday Night Lights (nt)

[miss_kitty]

29. Where the Red Fern Grows.

the Wizard of Oz

[jpgray]

31. Lines out of context from that one can sound horribly racist.

:D

[miss_kitty]

41. Where the Red Fern Grows? Or the wizard of Oz?

:P

[jpgray]

42. The coon hunting scenes in WoO were less graphic

:P

[4_Legs_Good]

30. Animal Farm

Best book ever.

Followed by the Hobbit prolly

david

[Marnieworld]

32. Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

I blush as I reveal my flakiness. B-)

[jonnyblitz]

33. I read Dr Zhivago twice and 1984 twice.

I only read books once because there are too many I want to read just once that I haven't read..

[jpgray]

34. I miss or forget things if I only read a book once

So most books I love I will plow through at least twice.

[jonnyblitz]

50. i miss things in movies..

i swear i can watch a movie and forget most of it in two days, people bring some key point up and i don't even remember it.

i remember better with books for some reason..

[_TJ_]

35. Catcher in the Rye / Lord of the Rings / Demon Haunted World

[last_texas_dem]

127. Catcher in the Rye

I know that's a popular choice, but it has just really spoken to me since the first time I read it when I was in sixth grade. I've read it about five times total. Runners-up are the "young adult" book Wait till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn, which I read probably as many times, and Animal Farm by Orwell which I've read about four times. (Oh yeah, and dozens of children's books that I probably read more than any of those, but I don't figure they count.)

Haven't been doing much re-reading lately, 'cause there's so much stuff I want to read that I haven't read once!

[fluffernutter]

36. WAtGarp maybe, or collections of short stories.

[StaggerLee]

37. From Here to Eternity

It ever references Spongebobesness.

:)

[Lindsey]

40. The Prophet

n/t

[HEyHEY]

39. Does the January, 2002 edition of Penthouse magazine count?

[lenidog]

43. Alls Quiet on the Western Front

By Erich Maria Remarque. Can't recall how many but at least 4 to 6 times.

[nytemare]

121. I have read that one about 3 times (I think)

I loved his style of writing. Too bad it wasn't high on Hitler's reading list.

[Left Is Write]

44. Valley Of The Dolls, probably.

[BurtWorm]

45. Lolita

I read it three or four times before I was twenty, then another couple of times before I was thirty, then once more before I was 40, then once a couple of years ago.

I can't remember a thing about it. :crazy:

[animuscitizen]

46. All of my cookbooks

[catmandu57]

47. Lord of the Rings

So many times I've forgotten the exact number, followed by Huck finn every couple of years.

[FrankBooth]

48. Franny and Zooey

The Great Gatsby.
The Illuminatus Trilogy
Tolkien Trilogy

[bluedeminredstate]

49. I have two that I try to read about once a year :

"A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving and "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry. Two very different kinds of stories and two very different styles in writing, but I just love them both. Both Irving and McMurtry are able to invent characters that you still think about long after you've finished the book.

[TahitiNut]

76. Did you enjoy "Simon Birch"?

Loosely based on "A Prayer for Owen Meany"

[bluedeminredstate]

98. Hated it.

Dreadful, slow death of a beautiful story about life, death, faith, miracles and the power of loyalty and love. The movie was a
semi-adaptation (and that's being generous since Irving removed his name from having anthing to do with the film) that spent most of the two hours ignoring the story and trying to make us get all squishy and emotional about the Simon character. Maybe to take our minds off the drivel on the screen?

[progmom]

51. I kind of hate to admit it...

The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

I used to read them every summer when I was young.

[Redstone]

52. Okla Hannali, by R.A. Lafferty.

It's the best book ever written about Indians, in my opinion, and th wild part is that it was written by an Irish white guy who mostly wrote science fiction!

Find a copy. Buy it. Read it, and you'll understand more about Indians thatn you did before.

(PS: It's also damn funny.)

Redstone

[Richardo]

53. Catch-22

Given the political circumstances, it gets more tragic and less funny each time, in a way.

Still love it, though.

[fluffernutter]

75. good book.

:thumbsup:

[Elidor]

93. My choice as well

I've read it a couple dozen times. It never gets old. Heller was mostly downhill after that, though he still had occasional moments of brilliance.

[slackmaster]

56. Stand On Zanzibar by John Brunner

It's pure poetry.

[Redstone]

59. Damn, now I have to go to the library

and take that one out. I haven't read in in years.

Redstone

[slackmaster]

68. Whatever your face and whatever your name

A gadget on the set makes you look the same.

:D

[Tikki]

57. Butterfly Kid....wriiten by Chester Anderson....

A Tale of Two Cities.....Charles Dickens
Time Machine....H. G. Wells
The Stand......Stephen King
Salem's Lot....Stephen King
The Cross-Killer.....written by Marcel Montecino...

[Rowdyboy]

58. "A Confederacy of Dunces"

John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece.

[tigereye]

60. Lord of the Rings

Virginia Woolf The Waves
Robertson Davies Cornish Trilogy

[libodem]

71. I loved that book

haven't thought of it in years..that would be a good re-read..

[Rowdyboy]

77. Its even funnier when re-read.....

The voices are all so real and authentic. My partner and I have memorized a few special lines and repeat them for fun sometimes.

[ignatius 2]

90. I love that book..Ignatius is my screen name because after the selection

of 2000 I felt like him..misunderstood and living in a country that did not share my "worldview."

May Fortuna soon spin the wheel and change our fate before its too late.

[Rowdyboy]

95. Be very careful, lest you clog your valve.....These are difficult times

and a clogged pyloric might be more than you can handle!

I think, next to Ignatius, my favorite character is the estimable Miss Trixie. I have such a wonderful mental picture of her!

Also, "Scarla O'Horror"

[solinvictus]

100. "Confederacy"

Next to "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" it's the funniest book ever. I love Miss Trixie, Ignatius, and Burma Jones.

[shrub chipper]

117. Me, too!!

I can read it every year and laugh just as hard.

Also, "Make Way for Lucia" by EF Benson. Too funny!!!!

'Short History of a Small Place' by TR Pierson. also very funny!!

[El Fuego]

62. Catch-22 and The Stand

[skygazer]

63. There are four books I read about once a year

Three of them, I've been reading pretty much yearly for over thirty years - The Lord of the Rings, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Homer's Odyssey.

The fourth, I discovered when it came out a couple of years ago and it quickly joined that trio - Neil Gaiman's American Gods. As a matter of fact, I'm reading LOTR again right now and toying with picking up American Gods.

Some books you gain something new each time you read them - those four do it for me. One thing I've noticed about them - they are all about journeys, both physical and spiritual. I guess I find that theme compelling.

[RetroLounge]

66. Marquez

100 years of Solitude and/or Love in the Time of Cholera

RL

[thestatusquo]

114. which do you think is better?

[RetroLounge]

120. 100 years of solitude, I think is better.

But man, they are both so good, it's hard to decide...

Been a few years since I read either one. Maybe it's time.

RL

[Longgrain]

67. The Brothers Karamozov is my usual once a year book

Tho I actually haven't read it recently, maybe it's time to dust off my Dostoyevski...

[YankeyMCC]

72. Foundation novels

by Isaac Asimov

[TahitiNut]

74. Tao Te Ching (various translations)

Le Petit Prince may be second.

[Solly Mack]

78. Dune 1-6 & Lord of the Rings..once a year, every year..for damn near

30 years on LOTR and the Dune books up to 1976 (CoD)..and the rest of the Dune books (GEoD,HoD, CHD) as they came out, I Incorporated into my yearly read-a-thon of my 2 favorite books (series)

[blindpig]

105. me too

LOTR about 30 times(I'm 51). I was just skimming Chapter House last night."You have no style!" Apparently we both have a taste for sublime subcreation.

I've also read TE Lawerence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom numerous times, a great read and valuable for understanding the ME. And of course the Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of the Eastern US. But that's religious text for me.........

[Solly Mack]

126. I've read the "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" just once

but I keep telling myself to read it again. I really love snakes and other such critters.

:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

112. Yes! Those are my two, as well

I don't read them every year, but I've read them both many times.

No matter how many times I read DUNE, I am amazed at how much new thinking I continue to pull out of it every time.

Gotta be one of the greatest books ever written for sheer depth and political philosophy.

Amazing.

And LOTR is just damned fun, and also amazing in its own way. But not at all on the same level of Dune in terms of making me think and reconsider the world.

[Solly Mack]

125. I tell people that Dune is my "bible"

I agree it's "one of the greatest books ever written for sheer depth and political philosophy"

[CBHagman]

80. Definitely the Bible.

Not from cover to cover, mind you, and I still haven't read the Apocrypha. I also can't get through Ezekiel. But the rest I've read, and I like re-reading the Psalms and Isaiah in particular.

As far as novels, I guess my most re-read title would be Elizabeth Jane Howard's "Getting It Right."

[jmowreader]

81. Barbarians at the Gate

I think it's a lovely book, I even keep it on my toilet.

However, it's being challenged--by the damned Simpson Strong-Tie 2005 Special Order Catalog.

[yellowdogintexas]

82. "The Joyous Season" by Patrick Dennis, author of Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame may be second.

Also: Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson (you know, "The Lottery"), well this is not typical Shirley Jackson ..it is hilarious.

"Jane Eyre"
"Tom Sawyer"
"To Kill A Mockingbird"
"The Godfather"

are all books I have read more than twice.

But I re read the two Dennis books and the two Jackson books when I need a good uplifting and fun read!!!!11

[DrZeeLit]

83. Shogun 3x. Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series 2x. Harry P every summer and

I'm reading all my childhood favorites again --

Charlotte's Web
Wrinkle in Time
Seventeenth Summer
Henry Higgins
Peterkin Papers
The Five Little Pepper and How They Grew
Gone Away Lake

...mmmmmm... sort of fun to go back.

[yellowdogintexas]

87. Shogun Rocks, I forgot that one. Have you read Clavell's other

books? All of them are great.

[DrZeeLit]

103. Yes! I loved all of them. And it's so fun when in Noble House...

...all the characters from his other books, including King Rat, have some ancestor or relative in the book.

Did you know that he also made movies -- To Sir With Love was one.

And ... Whirlwind... is now an interesting take on the middle east and oil.

I was saddened when he died. I wanted more characters! More stories!

[yellowdogintexas]

115. I loved Whirlwind! There was even a touch of Shogun in that one

too, remember the tanker was owned by a Japanese company ..the owner was descended from the family in Shogun?

I wanted a novel to cover the period between Gai Jin and Noble House! Or another one set in Japan.

Unfortunately, unlike Ludlum, he died apparantly with no unpublished works in progress to be released posthumously.

[Bouncy Ball]

84. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Gorgeous gorgeous book (and it's not scifi).

[really-looney]

85. How the Good Guys Finally Won

Great book about a bunch of people who should be remembered as hero's

[MrsCheaplaugh]

86. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

First read it in 8th grade and must have read it five times since.

[MediumBrownDog]

88. Lord of the Rings trilogy, probably a dozen times since I was 12..

[ScreamingMeemie]

89. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Because you just never quite "get it". :hi:

[Dave Reynolds]

91. The Chronicles of Amber,

the whole series.

[immoderate]

122. I read those.

Zelazny, right? I wasn't as high on the stream of conciousness stuff. But the series was good.

Did you read "Well of Souls" By Jack Chalker?

--IMM

[concord]

92. Wuthering Heights/Captains and the Kings

The Earth Children Series

Anything by Sharon Kay Penman

And the Outlander Series too - just for the fun of it.

[PassingFair]

94. Everything by Phillip K. Dick...

especially the Valis series.

[crispini]

97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

After that, probably Walden.

[solinvictus]

99. Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia"

because of the current political situation, on the brink of civil war and all.

[enigmatic]

101. "The Razor's Edge" by Somerset Maughm, ....

"Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson, and "Women" by Bukowski...

[SarahB]

102. Either 1984 or A Wrinkle in Time.

[HamstersFromHell]

104. The Mote In God's Eye

Followed closely by:

Ringworld
Gateway
To Your Scattered Bodies Go

[mtnester]

106. The Talisman, Stephen King, and Into The Forest, Jean Hegland..

I also re-read The Handmaid's Tale and 1984 regularly.

I also re-read the entire works of my favorite soft porn romance writer, Bertrice Small, as well as the entire series of anthropological fiction by Jean Auel.

Now, no shooting at me, but I also re-read everything by Anne Rice (including her other monikers, and her "ahem" porn for women series) and Stephen King as well. I also like Clive Barkers stuff, and Robert McCammon.

[Turn CO Blue]

107. LOTR like 10 times, Pride and Prejudice nt

[patricia92243]

108. Pride and Prejudice. I'm on a Jane Austen binge.

[thestatusquo]

113. I love Jane Austen too

I bought the 5 hour BBC version of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth on DVD! It's an awesome version you should check it out if you haven't already seen it.
Sidenote: Firth is a good actor, but why do the brits think he's so gorgeous? I just don't see it.

[Born in the Maze]

109. Bram Stoker's Dracula...

For a while I reread that one about once every two months.

[BiggJawn]

111. LOTR. Probably 30 times since 1977

Yeah, I need to get a Life.
"Das Boot" is running a close second.

[Mr. McD]

116. E. Doc Smith - Lensman series

* Triplanetary
* First Lensman
* Galactic Patrol
* Gray Lensman
* Second Stage Lensman
* Children Of The Lens
* Masters Of The Vortex

It's been over 25 years since I have read it but overall I have read them all three times.

[immoderate]

123. I want a delamiter!

--IMM

[Discord]

118. The Illuminatus! Trilogy

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440539811/002-5722700-6671222

[Tesibria]

119. Glory and the Dream, by William Manchester

American History 1932-1972.

It's a beautiful piece of writing -- and the best narrative history book I've ever read.

[immoderate]

124. 1984

Read it four times. Gets better each time. Also "Alice in Wonderland."

--IMM

[Telly Savalas]

129. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Can You See.

I've read that and Green Eggs and Ham about several thousand times each over the last couple of years. Granted there's this little person living here who demands I do so otherwise they'd probably just stay on the shelf. Memories of pre-parenthood are pretty fuzzy, but Bobby Fischer's My 60 Most Memorable Games probably ranks high.

[khashka]

130. Probably the most

is Lord of the Rings. Closely followed by all the Winnie the Pooh books.

Most recently? Steel Beach by John Varley. Brilliant on so many different levels and incredibly funny. Every time I finish it I want to start reading it again.

Khash.

[DiverDave]

131. Most of Micheners books.

Although he writes like a fawning dog to rich people.
Space, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, The Source, Centennial...
I really enjoy historical fiction.
The Stand, uncut version.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series.
Lonesome Dove and Cadillac Jack by Mcmurtry.