[Closed] What's your most re-read book?

Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sucliffe.

The book that introduced me more than any other to reading and history when I was young.

fight club

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I re-read Catch 22 every few years. I still think its the work of unbridled, twisted genius! All the characters in it are just so perfectly developed, you feel like you know them all personally, and understand the madness they find themselves in

Into Thin Air, John Krakauer

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Catch 22 also.

I've read zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance twice, but thats only because I didn't think I really understood it very well the first time. Other than that I've never read a book twice. Also don't tend to watch films more than once unless it's a rainy Sunday afternoon and I'm feeling too lazy to find the TV remote.

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I've only ever read 4 books twice

Ethan Coen short stories - 'Gates Of Eden'. Found it while clearing up and thought I'd give it another read now knowing who he was.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - best book ever written
Lord of the Flies - read at school, re-read under non-studying conditions.
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick - after seeing the film.

There are too many books to re-read many!

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye.

If you read it aloud it sounds better and will make you laugh, in places.

Midnight Express. First read it when I was around 14. Have read it countless times since. Only got to watch the film when I was around 20 and found myself bitterly disappointed.

Boy in the striped pyjamas.

I read it once. (I have read other books, once, but this was the most recent. About 3 years ago.)

I'm not really a reader.

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I must re-read at least one of the five books every year.

Not re-read many other than Catcher In The Rye and The World According to Garp.

Not 100% sure, but it's from the below;

The Great Game, by Peter Hopkirk
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
And pretty much all of the Bond books and the Jeeves & Wooster books/stories

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1984

is the only book I can remember reading for a second time (once in 1984, and again a few years back).

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

anotherdeadhero +1

also World War Z, I've read that 3 times already.

As a teenager - Lord of the Rings

As an "adult" - Wasp Factory/Trainspotting/Consider Phlebas

lord of the rings books.
3 times so far.

Blimey - haven't even found the patience to get thru LoTR once properly, let alone thrice.

Trainspotting
The Crow Road

IT, Stephen King - about five or six times.
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson - Probably 3 or 4
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson - 3 or 4 times

Good Omens is probably the book I've reread most as an adult.

The Ragged trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
Moving, funny and sometimes accurate.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Probably this one:

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But also, another couple of votes for Catch 22, and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
I'd add Puckoon by Spike Milligan, and 100 Years of Solitude , to the list of books that get re-reads every so often.

Sadly, it's my tenancy agreement....

I was surprised to hear my Letting Agents have the Extended edition - complete with the Itinerary I haven't seen before or signed 😯

I haven't ever been able to reread any books. I have tried, just can't get away from the "i've read this before" feeling.

Room on a broom!

woooosh and they were gone!

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I go back to Generation X by Douglas Coupland every so often.

It changed my life first time around.... now I read it to reminisce and to see how far I've come since first reading it.

THHGTTG here to.

I pick it up and read the opening chapter with Arthur Dent versus the bulldozers and know I'll have to read it to the end again. Must have read it a dozen times

I've read 1984 and Catch 22 a few times too

+1 Catch 22. And also the Good Soldier Schweik, which gets funnier each time I read it.

I read this quite a few times as a kid and found it recently so read it again - enjoyed it too. Apparently it's responsible for the Rambo films!

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Magnus Powermouse 😀

Bill Bryson's - A short history of nearly everything. For some reason I just really love it.

Neuromancer - William Gibson, and a constant ongoing loop of Iain Banks Novels. The Quarry is sitting on the shelf unread as I find it a bit upsetting that it will be the last new book of his I read.

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (probably read it once every 3-4 years or so, purely nostalgic reasons).

Of course, The Gruffalo and its ilk get read more than any others - some get read every evening for weeks on end it seems (those with kids will understand)...

As a kid - The Machine Gunners, Robert Westall
As a teenager - Catcher in the Rye
As an adult - Trainspotting

I'm not a massive fan of Rohl Dahl's other stuff, but Danny the Champion of the World is my alltime favourite book.
I just love Danny's relationship with his Dad, and all the little things he teaches him. In fact being able to read this book to my kids is one of the reasons I had kids 🙂

'Lord of the rings' or 'To kill a mockingbird', but fast catching up is 'The name of the wind' and the rest of the trilogy (once the bugger gets round to writing the last one)

Wind in the willows

Sir Nigel, and also The White Company by Conan Doyle.

'Acid House' and 'Trainspotting'.

Gotta be JUPITERS TRAVELS by Ted Simon.

Riding around the world on an old Triumph in the 1970s - adventures galore... 😆

Michael Marshall Smith - One of Us

Mudshark - I've been trying to remember the name of that book for ages. Will be seeking it out.

Mine - probably one of the Jeeves and Wooster books - Code of the Woosters I think.

Irma Kurtz - "The great American bus ride".

Fiction...got to be "The day of the jackal" by the masterstoryteller.

Eh one of these......

A star called Henry Roddy Doyle

Close to the Wind pete Goss

Never been one for reading a book a second time but a few weeks ago when i broke my collar bone, i reread the bit in THHGTTG about the definition of flying. Couldn't stop laughing and have made a mental note to read it all again soon.

As a kid i tried and tried to read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy - start / stop / restart / stop - over and over again. Great films but wasn't over keen on the read.

@sweepy - i'm waiting for him to publish the third book too!

The Lord of the Rings. First read it when I was 9, read it about 6 or 7 times since.

Tom Bombadil still annoys me every single time.

Neuromancer / Count Zero / Monarch Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson.

Good Omens - Pratchett / Gaiman.

I get stuck on LOTR during the dead marshes bit. I just wish Golem would murder the furry midgets and have done with it.

One of the joys of growing old is that I can re-read all my old books, without remembering the plots 😳

Oh, and Thomas The Tank Engine.

Rogue Male, haven't seen that for a while. I read that probably 6 or 7 times over the course of my childhood.
Also read Inferno by Larry Niven about that many times when I was younger. Eventually tracked down a copy as an adult for about £1.50 somewhere.

In more recent times, Catch 22, maybe 4 times.
And Only Forward, by Michael Marshall Smith.

this:
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in depth look as to why the world is what it is today....

would encourage any closet rascists to give it a read.

Catch-22 here, funny, savage and brilliant in equal parts

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

World War Z

Are probably my top 3 for re-reads

As an adult it's probably 'A Walk In The Woods' by Bill Bryson. Lots of Frederick Forsyth, Willard Price, Arthur Conan Doyle and The Hobbit in my youth.

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a few times and - again

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When they put back in 40,000 words cut from the original.

Day of the Triffids - was my favourite book as a kid. Must have read it a dozen times...

Sunset Song. Absolutely stunning book.

Of more recent, Anathem. Think that's three times now (Crytonomicon only twice so far...) and Kitchen Confidential. KC I bought and gave to several friends as I enjoyed it so much.

stuey - you think it benefits from the additional 40k words? I mean, it was already a bit... baggy, I thought.

And there's something about reading 70s SF in the original paperback, weird cover art, yellowing pages and all. Our house had a stack of slim Pohl books which all had weird covers. Great fun - not as good in newer packaging.

Some good ones there, I forgot about Sunset Song - have re-read it a couple of times, didn't even do it for Higher English..

Lord of the Rings - 4-5 times maybe?
The Crow Road, and The Bridge (both with scribbled autographs as it happens)
Still like the ratchet in tension in Day of the Jackal, too...

John Steinbeck - Cannery Row, probably read at least once a year for a decade.

Can't remember as a child, though I did do quite a bit of re-reading. There was lots of Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, C S Lewis et al.

For me great fiction creates a vivid picture inside the mind that I can inhabit at will. I cannot imagine not wanting to be ''Doc" from Cannery Row again before I die, so at regular intervals I'll pull it from the shelf and immerse myself again. It's like going for a drink with an old mate really, reliving past glories.

LOTR

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

nico74 - I tried reading them side by side - the cut version comes across all "Johnny Staccato" and is definitely lacking in comparison - but I do the 75p retail 70s cover 🙂

I rarely read a book more than once but I've read LOTR 3 times but one book I do make sure I read over and over again is Stephen Kings "The Stand" IMO it's his best book ever and he's wrote some brilliant books.

Generally there just doesn't seem to be the time, there are so many books to read for the first time, but I have re-read Zen and Catcher in the Rye.

I also re read Robertson Davies 3 trilogies. His is not a name I can recall anyone mentioning on book threads on here but he's one of my favourite authors.

LOTR's about 6 times. I've also read The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David Eddings about 3 times :nerd:

Dune

The Reality Dysfunction

Startide Rising

The foundations of mechanical accuracy by Wayne R Moore

Mine are probably Number9Dream and Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. Seem to read Ghostwritten every year at some point. Ive always got a partially read Culture novel secreted in a dark corner of the house, even when you've read them a couple of times it's nice to dip in.

A young boy puts a feather in his mouth...

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20 years old now, weird! Overdue a re-read actually.

Espedair Street by Iain Banks and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Heinlein close runners up though. And the first Amber series and the Mars trilogy would be higher if they didn't take so bloomin long to read

Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

I've read A Suitable Boy- Vikram Seth, three times.
I've also read a lot of books twice. If you leave a 10 to 15-year gap between readings, you spot new things you didn't spot the first time!

The Escape Artist by Matt Seaton
A truly wonderful (cycling) book about Matts rise into cycling and his gradual descent back out of the sport, as family and work pressures take their toll.
This is the only book I've ever finished and gone straight back to page one and started again.

Mr Pea