Question of the Week
Question of the Week #38: Books on Repeat
Which book or books have you read over and over? Why?
Thanks to "tristiseye" for suggesting this week's question!
Replies (31)
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The Little Prince, because no matter how I feel it makes me feel better. Every reading is different in some fundamental way because i have changed from one time to the next.
Aug 17, 2009 1:35 pm
by pirateye -
Of Mice and Men and Travels with Charly, Moby Dick, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Christmas Carol ... because they are great literature and speak to my heart and soul.
Aug 17, 2009 1:40 pm
by Rocci -
the princess bride - it makes me feel good.
Aug 17, 2009 1:48 pm
by robynsc -
"This Side Of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac
Aug 17, 2009 1:49 pm
by beattifickid89 -
"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton... I miss fifth grade.
Aug 17, 2009 2:36 pm
by tpowen -
"Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen, a trenchant observer of human nature.
Aug 17, 2009 3:06 pm
by MartiThomas -
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell. I have read it seven times so far. All four books. When i need a really good reading experience I reread this set.
Aug 17, 2009 3:29 pm
by Caroline1946 -
Toni Morrison's "Tar Baby" and Jane's "Pride & Prejudice"
I love reading novels over again, but these are the ones I've re-read the most.Aug 17, 2009 4:08 pm
by sofasophia -
Generation X and Microserfs by Douglas Coupland.
When I first read them I was at an age where I could totally relate to the characters, their thoughts, hopes and aspirations. I re-read them to remind myself of how I used to be.
I do not re-read many books though because I know I will never feel the same way as I did when I first read it and I do not want to ruin the memory.Aug 17, 2009 4:38 pm
by cresswga -
Gone With the Wind: as long as the book is, I've read it about six times (once in only four days) because it's the best book ever written - or at least I thought so when I was a teenager!
by RLSalyers -
Two come to mind. One is "Family Blessings" by LaVyrle Spencer. It takes me through the whole gamut of emotions. The other is "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert Heinlein. There are still some tech-y, futuristic gadgets in that book that I'd love tohave! Also the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings Series, the Harry Potter books , the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon and Richard Bach's "Johnathon Liviston Seagull" and "Illusions". I have read others of his books, but these two are my favorites.
by stitcher1959 -
Gone with the wind and Wuthering Heights. These two stories have it all : the drama, the great portraits. They are beautiful and breath-taking.
Aug 18, 2009 3:48 am
by Melisse -
A Christmas Carol - It starts off the holiday season for me every year
Aug 18, 2009 9:39 am
by jmaranvi -
I like A Christmas Carol too because it is seasonal and Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without a bit of Charles Dickens.
by chrispy -
The book that I have read the most times (although not in the last few years) is The Island Keeper by Harry Mazer. The incredible transformation of the main character from spoiled rich girl into a strong determined woman capable of survival under the most extreme conditions remains one of the most inspiring stories of the strength of the human spirit I have ever read.
Aug 19, 2009 3:19 pm
by Lolabean -
Unto The Sons by Gay Talese...and any book written by Frank McCourt
by moengey -
Its true reading a book a second time could disappoint you. When you read a good book savor it.........enjoy every moment. It's never the same the second time around. Recently I read The Time Travelers Wife. Great book don't see the movie its never the same.
Aug 20, 2009 7:08 am
by elana456 -
elana456: I loved that book. It made me cry my eyes out. I gave it to my wife - she loved it. I gave it to my mum - she loved it!
I saw the trailer for the movie and it looked awful. I am not too enamored with the idea of them making a TV show out of it either (which they have been discussing).
by cresswga -
The "Harry Potter" books. I read the series at least once a year. And Pride and Prejudice. And the Chronicles of Narnia. I love those books that you always go back to again and again; I know its a cliche, but it really does feel like visiting an old friend.
Aug 21, 2009 12:08 pm
by amoebaghost19 -
"How they Kept the Faith" by Grace Raymond.
It's a relatively unknown book, but an inspiring story of the Huguenots at Languedoc. I've read the book over and over again to relive its poignant moments.Aug 22, 2009 11:33 am
by sonata58 -
"Jane Eyre". I don't read the whole book, but I read select chapters over and over.
by saturntv -
When new Harry Potter books used to come out, I'd reread all the ones up to the new one in preparation. I also regularly reread some of my favorite books -- The Crying of Lot 49, Leaves of Grass, and Shakespeare.
Aug 24, 2009 11:32 am
by emilyyoung -
Satyarth Prakash
by jingle33 -
On the light side I read Gerald Durrall's "My Family and Other Animals." It is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where Gerald Durrell lived as a boy with his family, this book evocatively chronicles his five-year sojourn on the Greek island. With hilarious yet endearing portraits of his eccentric family and their many unusual hangers-on. This is an entertaining and enduring memoir, of which he wrote two more: "Birds, Beasts and Relatives" and "A Zoo in My Luggage." Gerald's elder brother was more known for his literary acclaim, British author Lawrence Durrell most noted for "The Alexandria Quartet."
On the heavier side, I return to the existentialists of my early teens and each summer read by Hermann Hesse: "Demian," "Narcissus and Goldmund" & " Steppenwolf."Aug 25, 2009 6:20 am
by elliott57 -
Every Winter Solstice, I unpack "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper and re-read it, as slowly as possible. An Arthurian/modern day time-traveling story of a young boy who discovers his powers to keep the world safe from evil, it is truly exquisite Anyone who has ever gone to see a Christmas Revels performance should read this book--Susan Cooper wrote the wonderful poem at the end of the performance. Harry Potter is great, a great beautiful tapestry of a story, but the Dark is Rising is an exquisite miniature mosaic of the same themes, written for the same age group.
by BookMuncher -
pride and prejudice. I also have one set of dvd's that I drag out periodically too. The above comments reads like a must read as well.
Aug 28, 2009 8:49 am
by nomad -
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, Angels by Marian Keyes, Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite, The California Club by Belinda Jones, most of Stephen King or Dean R Koontz or Richard Laymon, CS Lewis' Chronicles Of Narnia, Freya North's Pip and Fen and Cat, the Harry Potter series....
I love re-reading old favourites, its such a comfort feelingSep 9, 2009 11:04 am
by badfalcon -
Reading Harriet the Spy is like coming home to me. I adored that book as a child, and I still love it. The fact that Sport forgives her in the end is so comforting. Maybe juvenile, but I still love it. And The Sound and The Fury. If Faulkner was still alive I would follow him around and be his groupie.
Sep 24, 2009 8:32 am
by kara113 -
The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison. A desperate director and his film crew
go back in time to film "Viking Columbus". Hilarity ensues.
A Feast Unknown by Phillip Jose Farmer. Analogues of Tarzan and Doc Savage fight
it out for the secret of immortality while surrounded by violent death.
Killer by Karl Edward Wagner. A vicious space lizard loose in Imperial Rome is
hunted by a Roman trapper and, in disguise and unknown to the Roman, the alien
pit beast trafficker that lost it.Sep 24, 2009 10:22 pm
by Golem100 -
Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove. White South Africans from the future deliver AK-47s to the Confederate Army. One of the best War Between the States alternate histories around.
by Golem100 -
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by richhardan