BS: Books You've Read More Than Once

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 03:48 PM

Thanks for the wonderful response, Don!

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 03:05 PM

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini – don't know how many times. Several.

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini – couple of times.

Lord of the Rings trilogy, preceded by The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien – three times so far (not counting watching tapes of the LOTR movies – couple of times.

The Star Kings and the sequel, Return to the Stars by Edmond Hamilton – three or four times. Hamilton wasn't all that skillful a writer and he's pretty dated as far as science fiction goes. Pure space opera. But, boy, could that sucker tell a story! The various "Star Trek" writers would have done well to have read some of Hamilton's stuff!

The Sparrow and Children of God by Mary Doria Russell – a couple of times.

Several Shakespearean plays, but I'd rather see them staged than to read them. Same with Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand. Hard to beat Jose Ferrar's performance in the 1950 movie. First videotape I ever bought.

Wayfaring Stranger by Burl Ives – twice. Learned a lot about him that I didn't know before. He was studying to be a singer of lieder—art songs—when he suddenly realized that he already had a huge repertoire of songs that he'd learned from his grandmother and while bumming around the country, the kind of songs very few people he knew of at the time seemed to be doing. The rest is history.

The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk – I've only read it once so far, but I'm going to read it again very soon. His and my performing styles are far different, but his experiences on the East Coast and mine on the West have some fairly intriguing parallels. He says a lot that rings very large bells for me.

Old Troubadour by Gregory d'Alessio, about Carl Sandburg.   D'Alessio is an artist and cartoonist by trade (many cartoons in "The New Yorker") and an active member of the New York Classic Guitar Society. Sandburg used to stay with d'Alessio whenever he was in New York City, as did several other famous people. Sandburg was avidly interested in the classic guitar, even though his playing, including his song accompaniments, was weird, to say the least. He met Segovia at d'Alessio's pad. Segovia would offer to tune Sandburg's guitar for him before he played (self-defense, perhaps? Sandburg subscribed to the "That's close enough for folk music" theory of tuning). And he also met Marilyn Monroe at d'Alessio's place. She delighted in taking dictation from him when he had a sudden inspiration for a poem. The book is full of stories and anecdotes about Sandburg, plus many photographs and a lot of d'Alessio's sketches and cartoons of Sandburg. I didn't even know of the book's existence until Bob (Deckman) Nelson gave me a copy. Thanks again, Bob!

There are a number of others that don't immediately spring to mind.

I presume that we're not asking about books that we don't necessarily pick up and read straight through, at least more than once, like dictionaries and encyclopedias, or things like Strunk and White's Elements of Style, but refer to with some frequency. I have shelf after shelf of non-fiction on history, science, political theory, various biographies and autobiographies, and a whole bunch of reference books that I grab pretty often, not to mention song books up the ziggy, including collections like Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, several books by the Lomaxes, Sandburg, books about the folk music scene such as David Hajdu's Positively 4th Street, Jack Holtzman's Follow the Music, bios and autobios of Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie and others—the usual stuff. Plus the F. J. Child collection on CD-ROM. I've read most of these and refer to them frequently, but I presume this is not really what the question is about.

Perhaps in that same catagory are collections of comic strips and cartoons, such as old "Flash Gordon," "Buck Rogers," "Prince Valiant," "Peanuts," and "Calvin and Hobbes," and such.

Between my wife, Barbara (who is also a book-freak—and a librarian) and me, we have so many bookshelves lining the walls that if the walls were ever to collapse and fall out, we'd probably not be aware of it.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Deckman
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 03:03 PM

"Stood the teepee of Nokomiss" ...

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 01:58 PM

Ah, the Kalavala:

By the shores of Gitchee-Gummi
By the shining Big Sea Waters....

(Yes, Bob, I know, I know.)

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Deckman
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 10:34 AM

In addition:

All of John Steinbeck

All of Ivan Doig. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Flash Company
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 10:25 AM

Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit,
All of David Eddings Belgarion and Sparhawk stories
All of Discworld.
The John Fielding mysteries by Bruce Alexander
The Barry Hughart 'Master Li trilogy'.
Leslie Charteris, P C Wren, Ike Asimov, John Wyndham and others.
Not sure how I ever find time to do anything else.
Do like new ones as well, Currently reading Neil Gaiman's 'Anansi Boys',

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: cptsnapper
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 04:23 AM

Anything by P. G. Wodehouse, also The Sword In The Stone & The Once & Future King

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Kaleea
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 12:21 AM

Wow! Alot of us have read alot of the same books alot of times. Scary monster!!
   As a little girl, my fave was "Heidi," or else Grimm's Fairy Tales, or else Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates. My younger brother were bookaholics. Mother took us to the Library each week, and when we read through all of our books we'd read the World Book Encyclopedia (1954 edition) or. I also dearly loved a one of my Daddy's college textbooks (early 40's), "Writers of the Western World." In it I was reading, or attempting to read among other things, Poe's "The Raven" at about age 8 or so. Alas & alack, I don't know what became of it.
   I also have read Black Elk Speaks several times, as well as a few others of him & some by his family members.

Other books I read over & over & over tend to be:
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
(& other books by him & by Daya Mata)
Light From Many Lamps edited by Lillian Eichler Watson
(the one I keep on my nightstand!)
Anything I can get by P. G. Wodehouse, which is rare.

   I could go on about books without end!

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 11:35 PM

Well, about the only books I can claim to have re-read fully are Larry Niven's "Fallen Angels" and Lois McMaster Bujold's "Falling Free", "Shards of Honor" and "Barrayar". There are many books I'd **like** to read again, but with over 50 books on my current bought-and-to-be-read pile (and at least a dozen books of Sheryl I need to swipe) I don't have **time** for re-reading.

Meanwhile, I'm amused at how many of the books listed here I either can sing songs about or can point folks at songs about. Most notably Dark is Rising and Silverlock (not to mention Harry Potter and LOTR).

-- Gary

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 11:23 PM

Books I feel compelled to re-read every few years: 1. My father's copy of Antoine Saint-Exupery's Wind, Sand & Stars. The heavy cotton pages and woodcut pictures add a bit to these true accounts of an early air-mail pioneer in the desert that I never get tired of. 2. Re-Birth (also known as The Chrysalids), by John Wyndham. The telepathy the friends share "thinking together" reminds me now of...the mudcat. 3.The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme and 4.I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg...I get drawn into these worlds very different from my own.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Deckman
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 07:48 PM

Rapaire ...For Inglish translations of "the Kalavala," I've found the 'Peabody' to be the best, although it is the least poetic. And poetry is so much of these tales. The "Peabody" translation was done in Indiana in 1976, as I recall ... but I'm tired and I might not overly accurate now.

My dim memory says that "The Kalavede" was written by (translated?) by an American author named "George Goble." (I hope I'm accurate here).

These stories were my late Father's bedtime stories. They were always held up, by my Finnish Grandmother, as the example to follow.

CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: *Laura*
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 05:45 PM

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (countless times - best book ever)
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles (about 5 times)
Tolkien - Lord of the Rings (about 6 times - roughly once a year or so)
Elaine Feinstein - Loving Brecht
John Irving - The Cider House Rules
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Oh dear - I could go on forever! I don't think there's a book on my shelf that hasn't been read at least twice.

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Peace
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 05:36 PM

Ellison Wonderland
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 05:31 PM

A few others I forgot are:
Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay
Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, Joe Coomer
Most of Roger Zelazny's older stuff, especially his short stories
Nine Mile Bridge, Helen Hamlin

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 03:11 PM

Dang it, Bob, now that I know it exists I'll have to read it! Fie upon you, Sirrah! Now I must learn Estonian!





Oh, heck, I'll just read it in translation, like I did the Kalavala.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bobad
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 11:08 AM

Must add "Be Here Now" by Baba Ram Dass to my list.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 08:41 AM

I'm re-reading No Man Is An Island right now... read it in college and it had a profound effect on me. As did The Little Prince. How could I possibly forget The Little Prince? A life-shaper, as was, is and ever shall be Thomas Merton's writings.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 12:09 AM

I loved Travels With Charley and Moby Dick, and have read both more than once.

As a child I reread The Secret Garden many times. And there was a young teen novel called Mrs. Mike. Great stuff!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 11:00 PM

Shakespeare, as much and as often as possible. I try and read it all once a year -- this was something I learned many years ago from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", which I have reread about three times (thank you Betty). I carry a play or the poems around with me for subway or whatever. It is amazing how much time you can find. But I can't really read the early History plays (till you get to Richard III in about 1591) very often, and I confess to skipping Two Gentlemen of Verona and a Comedy of Errors sometimes in the cycle. Probably Twelfth Night is the one I reread the most. It is just a habit I picked up when I was 16 and never let go of, not something I parade, but it has been worth it, heaven knows.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Deckman
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 10:43 PM

Rapaire ... yah ... but have you also read "The Kalavede?" That's the Estonian version. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Midchuck
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 10:24 PM

Hmmmmm...Lesseee....

I've probably read Winnie-the-Pooh more than anything else, if you count having it read to me when I was little, reading it to myself very shortly thereafter, and to my children, out loud, from when they were little nearly into college - it got ritualized.

Jerry said:

The Thurber Carnival holds a place of honor in our downstairs bathroom, along with Calvin and Hobbes, Pogo, The Far Side and more recently, Get Fuzzy.

That's scary. There shouldn't be two minds like me in the universe.

Has it occurred to you that the difference between Thurber and Kelly is only that in Thurber they yell "The dam has broken!" and in Pogo, "The dam is bust!"?

Other multiple reads:

Dune (but not the sequels. They go downhill in quality fast.
Ringworld (the sequels are better, but still fall short.)
Atlas Shrugged (a quasi-religious epiphany when I was 20. At 64, crazier than a s***house rat, but has a few sound principals down underneath it.)
The Mote in God's Eye.
Most of David Drake's stuff, particularly the Hammer's Slammers universe stories, and the Drake and Flint Belisarius series.
Brust's Jhereg series - pretty much all of them.
Most of Heinlein pre-stroke. I have the first printing of "Between Planets" that I got at age 10 or 11.
Most of the Peter Bowen Gabriel DuPre books.

Most recent multiple read is S. M. Stirling's Dies the Fire. Only published a year ago August. Get it if you ever read any SF or fantasy.

But I ramble on.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 09:56 PM

Heck, Deckman, I've read THAT!

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Deckman
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 09:43 PM

The "Kalavala."

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Amos
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 09:22 PM

Dictionaries, R.P. Warren (The Cave and All the King's Men), East of Eden and anything else of Steinbeck's, several Hemingways, any Heinleins I can get, anything by Barbara Kingsolver, and certain perennials like The Reader Over Your Shoulder, Elements of Style and assorted reference books. I have re-read some of Hawthorne, some of Joyce, and numerous lesser lights I cannot recall.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Peace
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 09:18 PM

Dang. I have left off Asimov, Doyle, Wheatley (whose "The Devil Rides Out" scared the bejeebers outta me when I was young--I mean sleep with the lights ON)--thanks for the memory, Don.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 09:15 PM

Almost every book I ever enjoyed, from Scott, Chesterton and Dickens, through Conan Doyle, Wells and Verne, via Charteris, Asimov, Wheatley and Fleming, to King and Clancy, and dozens of others beside.

The only books I haven't read more than once were those that so bored me, I didn't finish them the first time.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 09:10 PM

Here is a list of the books on my desk, waiting to be returned to their little beds on the shelves. A few I haven't yet read, so I've marked them with a *. The rest are re-reads. Remember, this is only a sample that's immediately at hand.

Heinlein: Glory Road.
Bestul: The Last river rat.*
Bragg: More than petticoats.
Rast: The Whole dam story.
Lincoln: A Private disgrace: Lizzie Borden by daylight.
Clarke: Profiles of the future.
Stabenow, et al.: Wild crimes.
Taylore: Jumping fire.
Bratt: Trails of yesterday.
Beck: Shamans and kushtakas.
Kanuit: Tales from the edge.*
Brown: Alcan trail blazers.
Adney: The Klondike stampede.
Tremblay: On patrol.
Stabenow, et al.: Powers of detection. (Ahem -- autographed to me!)
Bryson: A Short history of nearly everything.
Marriott: Hell on horses & women.
Gray: Women of the west.
Woodman: Unraveling the Franklin mystery: Inuit testimony.
Twitty: Riches to rust.

The reason that two haven't yet been read is because I just got them.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 09:02 PM

Too many to mention. Here are some I have read more than 3 times. Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm, Collected Essays.... Koestler: Darkness at Noon, autobiographical books, The Age of Longing. Warren: All the King's Men. Kornbluth: Syndic. Carroll: the Alice books. Agee: A Death in the Family. Heinlein: The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Green Hills of Earth. Burdick: The Ninth Wave. Huie: The Revolt of Mamie Stover. Hersey: The Wall. Kipling: Captains Courageous. Skinner: Walden Two. Stewart: Storm, Earth Abides. Twain: Huckleberry Finn. Wylie: Finnley Wrenn, Opus 21. Young: The Rise of the Meritocracy. Hoggart: The Uses of Literacy. Macdonald: Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Against the American Grain. Wiener, Cybernetics. Cooke: Six Men. Mencken: Vintage, Prejudices, Chrestomathy. Russell, History of Western Philosophy.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: The right to hurt people's feelings is the only right worth having. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 06:52 PM

I've read the entire Sherlock Holmes corpus about 3 times, I think. I find that after about a 10-year interval, I can't remember how most of the stories end, so it's like reading them for the first time.

I read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn several times as a kid. It was a long time before I realized that the editions I had then were dumbed-down abridgements for kids. I reread Huckleberry Finn recently, an unabridged edition, and was surprised how much was new to me. I enjoyed it immensely.

Likewise, I read Great Expectations long ago (or thought I had) because it was a school assignment. I reread it recently and had the same experience. So much was new to me that I figure that must have been an abridgement, too.

I'm pretty sure I read 1984 more than once. I probably should read it again. In fact, it probably would be a good idea to reread a lot of the books I enjoyed as a kid.

Tom Sawyer, though, was a disappointment when I tried rereading it as an adult. I don't think I ever finished it.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Peace
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 06:01 PM

E R Burroughs' Mars series
The Moons of Jupiter (A Munro)
SAS Survival Handbook
Travels With Charley
Dance of the Happy Shades (A Munro)
Friend of my Youth (A Munro)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Most of Twain's stuff, with an especial love for 'Life on the Mississippi' and 'Roughing It'
The Bean Trees
The Stone Angel

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 05:45 PM

If a book isn't worth reading again it wasn't really worth reading once.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: jacqui.c
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 05:38 PM

Forgot the Dune series!

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Beer
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 05:17 PM

Forgot to include Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: robomatic
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 04:51 PM

"Little Big Man" by Berger
For sleepytime, the John D. MacDonald Travis McGee series
Rhodes "The Making Of The Atomic Bomb"

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bfdk
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 04:48 PM

Like Liz, Rapaire and others I often read books more than once. In fact, the books I've only read once were usually the ones I didn't like that much..

One that I've re-read several times is "Frozen in Time" by Owen Beattie and John Geiger. I remember buying the book while visiting Edinburg back in 1987, at a time when the book was brand new (even had to get it hardback, as no paperback was as yet available). I started reading the book on the train going down to Harwich on the way home, and I continued reading while on the ferry, finishing it at around 3 in the morning sitting all alone in the corridor outside the cabin so as not to disturb my 3 cabin companions. I simply couldn't put it down.

Others are Betty Tootell's "All four engines have failed" and Piers Paul Read's "Alive". I've re-read all Harry Potter books, but have only read LOTR once (in Danish). I intend to read in again in English sometime, though ;-) I've re-read lots of children's books, like all of the "Little House" series, Anne of Green Gables and books of that ilk. I've read and re-read most of what Simon Wiesenthal ever wrote.

For anybody interested in good historical novels I'll warmly recommend Swedish author Ian Guillou's Crusades Trilogy which has now been translated into English. A Must-Read!!

Quite a mixed bag, as a matter of fact..

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Cluin
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 04:27 PM

The phone book.

But not the whole thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 04:21 PM

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"...but not recently.

several by Heinlein, and other Sci-Fi...especially "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: kendall
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 04:17 PM

Oh yes, Moby Dick

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: number 6
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 03:50 PM

The Illuminatus Trilogy .. by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities .. by Charles Dickens

Red Earth, White Lies .. by Vine Deloria

Moby Dick .. by Herman Melville

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 03:27 PM

I'll try that again: HERE!

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 03:26 PM

Found it ... you can hear Dylan Thomas here Child's Christmas in Wales.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Gervase
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 03:18 PM

Finnegans Wake is one of those books that just cries out to be read aloud. On the page it's complex, abstruse and downright impenetrable at times, but on the ear it's funny, mellifluous and full of punning surprises. If you haven't the heart to plunge into the deep end, take a look at the 'reduced' version edited by Anthony Burgess.
On reading aloud generally, I think that sometimes the authors themselves haven't the right voice. I've got a recording of Joyce reading from the Wake, and it's not a patch on some other, more 'actorly' renditions. And Richard Burton's voice, for me, is the voice for Dylan Thomas.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 01:51 PM

Ragtime
Alas,Babylon
The Travis McGee series
Watermelon Sugar
Will Henry westerns
Little Big Man
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 01:50 PM

When I was young and even stupider than I am now, I read Dylan's Child's Christmas in Wales aloud for an audience. Put on my best, undulating Welsh accent and boomed it out to great applause. Months later I heard a recording of Thomas from the BBC in 1929 (I think) reading the same piece. He had a plummy English accent! What's that about?

I read it every year, without fail.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Peace
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 01:18 PM

Dylan Thomas seems to have done both, IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 01:16 PM

Huckleberry Finn is one I started reading to the kids but I think they went ahead and read it on their own so they wouldn't have to wait to hear what happened next. I've read it a couple of other times myself.

A friend who teaches philosophy is convinced that LOTR is meant to be read outloud and has done so several times, any time he has a willing long-term audience.

When you read one out loud I think you can tell if the writer spoke the words or just wrote them. Thoreau, no. Faulkner, yes.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Beer
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 11:03 AM

Aztec---Gary Jennings
Raptor----Gary Jennings
Genesis---W.A. Harbinson
Sacajawea--- Anne Lee Waldo
Follow the River---James Alexander Thorm
In Search of the Miraculous---P.D. Ouspensky

Ther are some great and wonderful readings out there but these are the ones that I can remember reading twice.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 11:00 AM

Wow! A lot fo great stuff here!

LH: Put me down for multiple re-reads of Watership Down A.A. Milne and Arthur Conan Doyle (Including the Professor Challenger books, which are a real hoot.)

Gervase: H.P. Lovecraft is a repeated read for me, too. Nothing could ever top the Dunwich Horror, for me. And add Shirley Jackson's books... especially The House On Haunted Hill which was first made into a pretty good movie and more recently into something worthy of Mystery Science Theater.

Moses: I read aloud the Hobbit and all three books of LOTR to my two sons, when my youngest was still in a playpen. When I finally finished, I asked them what they wanted me to read to them next, they both immediately chimed in "Read The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings again." And I did.

Last week, I picked up a copy of No Man Is An Island by Thomas Merton, which I haven't read since college days. I'm looking forward to re-reading it.

The Thurber Carnival holds a place of honor in our downstairs bathroom, along with Calvin and Hobbes, Pogo, The Far Side and more recently, Get Fuzzy.

I read sections of the bible fairly regularly but never have read the whole book. We're read the Purpose Filled Life (or whatever the title is, twice.) Maybe I need to read the title again.

And how could I forget The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter? That book is very special to my heart, and I go back to it repeatedly.

'Scuse me while I go read..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Peace
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 10:26 AM

Cities in Flight
Lucifer's Hammer
Tom Sawyer
Bible
Time Enough for Love
The Little Red Book
On War
The Face of Battle
Great Expectations
The Complete Works of Edmund Spenser
Much of Shakespeare
HMS Ulysses

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 09:49 AM

I reread Jim Harrison. Beautiful books. His poetry is beyond me though,way too intellectual for the likes of me.

Some of the goodies:
Wolf
Farmer
Legends of the Fall
Dalva
True North