Books You've Read More Than Once

Have read Lord of the Rings nine times. Will read it again this summer.
The Crossing (Cormac McCarthy) four times.
Jitterbug Perfume three times.

 

Sorry I'm new. Was searching to see if anyone else read "World War Z" and they had.

 

It wasn't a complaint. Just a snarky observation.

Any poster with highlander as a handle can't be all bad.

 

I tend to tear through books pretty quickly, so my faves tend to be series: Tom Clancy books, John Sandford's "Prey" series (all of Sandford's books, really), Patrick O'Brien's British naval books with Aubrey and Maturin, M.C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth books, the Jesse Stone series... Michael Connelly's "The Poet" and a few of his Harry Bosch books, all guilty pleasures, and all re-read at least a dozen times each.

 

On the Road - Kerouac
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Catch Me If You Can - Frank Abagnale, Jr.
the entire Harry Potter series - Rowling (Last summer, I reread the entire series, one right after the other, and it was amazing all of the things I picked up on.)

Unfortunately, a lot of the rest of the books I've reread (which is my entire collection. I never read a book just once. You cannot glean all of the intricate detail, dialogue and plot lines of a truly great book from just one reading. I wish my family understood this.) are chick lit, because a lot of what I read is chick lit.

However, I am making an effort to reread a lot of the books I had to read in high school - To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, Frankenstein, the Great Gatsby, etc. I know I won't attempt Great Expectations again or The Scarlet Letter or (god forbid) Wuthering Heights, but I remember genuinely enjoying the first list of books and wanting to reread, but between high school and college, it's hard to find time to just sit down and read.

I've also wanted to read a lot of Shakespeare's comedies, but I haven't gotten around to it.

 

Thanks but it's not the head chopping off movie. Highlanders was my high school's mascot.

 

Then I take it back. Piss off, newbie!

 

I've been doing the same thing, Wenders. I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird a couple of weeks ago. I enjoyed it the first time and it was even better nearly 20 years later. It isn't a book, but I also recently re-read Poe's Fall of the House of Usher. I love short stories so I thought I'd give that one another shot. I thought I might appreciate it more now. So much for that idea.

 

I read "My Antonia" by Willa Cather every Christmas vacation.

I've also read "Absolutey American" or whatever that West Point book is several times as well.

 

"A Confederacy of Dunces"

"All the King's Men."

"Absalom, Absalom."

"Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot."

 

"Clockers" is a great book. I have not found anything else by Richard Price nearly as good ... You're saying "Lush Life" really is all that? I'll have to check it out.

 

"on the road"
"cuckoo's nest"
"mockingbird"
"compulsion"

sport variety: "ball four," "north dallas forty," "boys of summer."