BS: Books You've Read More Than Once

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 26 Nov 05 - 05:36 PM

Way cool! My first 100th post ever. Is that chillin', or what?

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Carly
Date: 26 Nov 05 - 09:59 PM

Thank you so much for this thread, Jerry. Reading these lists reminds me that I'm among kindred spirits, the addicted-to-books kind.

I generally keep only books I think I might read again, and we have thousands, but there are some I try to reread every few years, while ignoring the piles I haven't gotten to yet.

Jane Austen
Dorothy Sayers - the Lord Peter Wimsey series
Hilton-Lost Horizons
Kipling- particularly Captains Courageous, Kim and "Baa, Baa, Black
    Sheep"
Brunner- Stand on Zanzibar
Clarke- Childhood's End
Heinlein-The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is my favorite, but I've reread everything except his last few books
Kaye- The Far Pavilions
Shute-A Town Like Alice
Renault- The King Must Die, The Bull From the Sea
Stewart- The Arthurian Books
Baum, and later Thompson- the Oz books, read in my childhood,and
    read aloud to nieces and nephews, our son, and anyone else
    interested
Doyle- Sherlock Holmes
Mitchener- The Source, Hawaii
Schimtz- the Witches of Karres
Bristow- Calico Palace
White- The Once and Future King
Blish- the Cities in Flight books
Bester- the Demolished Man
Twain- probably I've reread A Connecticut Yankee most often, but all of his books I've read at least twice
Dickens- A Tale of Two Cities
Baroness I-have-to-go-look-it-up-because-I-can't-spell-it 's the Scarlet Pimpernel
There are more, but I have to go read now.

Clearly, "Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold" sums up my approach to books.

Carly Gewirz

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: moongoddess
Date: 26 Nov 05 - 11:09 PM

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Ken Kesey.
    Lived down the road from him when i lived in Eugene, Oregon and taught in Springfield, Oregon. One of the best!

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 11:22 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 02:57 PM

Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars I'll have to dig up and read again, now that I learn there's a movie in the works (scheduled for release next year). Haven't read that one since my early teens.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 03:19 PM

I have read much of the above numerous times, except for LOTR, which I couldn't bother with the first time and have never gone back to. Likewise CS Lewis, on re-reading 'Travels with Charley' I found it the least interesting of Steinbeck's work, he would not be remembereed if that were his only book, just this side of worthless.

I mus correct Jerry's first post, though, because it is a wounderful, important book. 'Call it Sleep' is by Henry Roth, not Philip Roth.

I would also recommend the trilogy 'Scot's Quair' by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (pseud. of James Leslie Mitchell) but not for the same reasons, just because it's been forgotten and I find it readable over and over again.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 03:29 PM

both translations of the same Proust I have read each more than once, 'Remembrances of Things Past' and 'In Search of Lost Time'

'Life on the Mississippi', Twain at his best. I reread 'Huck Finn' recently and thought the first hundred pages or so are the only ones worth reading. The last half of the book is junk IMHO.

'Famine' by O'Flaherty
'Hunger' by Hamsun

I may remember others, but these are great books.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 03:34 PM

'Diary of an Old Man' by Chaim Bermant
both 'The Home Place' and 'The Works of Love' by Wright Morris

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 04:18 PM

Bhagavad Gita
Old and New Testaments
Koran
Pillow Book of Sei Shonagan
all of Lafcadio Hearn's writing on Japan
USA by Dos Passos
Studs Lonigan
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Disapperances by Howard Frank Mosher

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 04:21 PM

Thnaks for correcting me, Bill. You are right, of course. I'm glad that someone else has read the book.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 04:40 PM

much of Faulkner

certainly Ulysses many times, though I am less impressed as time goes on, as well as The Dubliners

various translations of Homer, Iliad and Odyssey

much of Dostoyevsky in translation

don't forget Flann O' Brien's The Hard Life and the Poor Mouth, both readable over and over again

some H Rider Haggard and Ernst Bramah and Talbot Mundy and Kipling

Les Miserables I read every other year if not every year, just so I don't forget, and not the abridged version, don't bother with that, just read the whole thing, is my recommendation

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: MudGuard
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 04:43 PM

In no special order (and probably not complete):

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's Hobbit + Lord of the Rings
Douglas Adams' Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 volumes of the 4 -volume trilogy)
Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Agency
Douglas Adams' Long Dark Teatime
George Orwell's 1984
George Orwell's Animal Farm
Herbert George Wells' Time Machine
Herbert George Wells' War of the Worlds
Herbert George Wells' Invisible Man
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Alex Haley's Roots
Robert Louis Stephenson's Treasure Island
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
almost all books by Jules Verne (in their German translation)
Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain
Tom Clancy's Hunt for the Red October
almost all books by Karl May (I was young, I needed the money ;-))

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 04:53 PM

I've also read all of Karl May (in English Translation) a couple of times, and of course much of Bradbury, though I found on re-reading his 'Dandelion Wine' it doesn't really hold up, more for adolescents I think. I also went throught the Verne phase and Stevenson, and H G Wells, and have read them all a couple of times at least over the years.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 04:57 PM

Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Deckman
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 05:45 PM

To Bill Kennedy ... I certainly agree with you that "Travels With Charlie", by John Steinbeck, was not his best, by a long shot. I've always felt that he wrote one book too many. You're the first one that's ever agreed with me on that point. ARE YOU MARRIED?? NO, NO. Wait, I just remembered ... I AM MARRIED!!!

Forget I asked that! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 06:12 PM

moongoddess - Tom Wolfe wrote "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" ... Kesey was one of the principle characters, but he didn't write it.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:50 AM

Bob - I've since read remarks by one of Steinbeck's sons that he was painfully shy and actually spoke with no-one on that entire trip, all fictional recreations of what he might have said, etc. and not very well written at that.

I'm not remembereing everything, but don't want to forget

How Green Was My Valley and its sequels by Richard Llewellyn
The Green Child by Herbert Read
Lovely is the Lee and others by Robert Gibbings
Peig by Peig Sayers
The Islandman trans. by Robin Flower
all of Hugh Lofting, many times as a child and a parent, especially 'The Twilight of Magic'
William Heath Robinson's 'Adventures of Uncle Lubin' and others

too many to remember

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 11:07 AM

all the shorts stories by Raymond Carver, numerous times each
and much of Alice Munro as well
all of Edgar Allen Poe

as to others above, Black Elk and other Neihardt'
Seven Arrows
Ginger Man
Master and Margarita
Giants in the Earth
Last Night's Fun - well worth rereading a couple of times
Shakespeare of Course
and Thurber
S J Perleman
Jack Kerouac - all of his
Dow Mossman's 'Stones of Summer'
etc. can't write anymore, must go read something!

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bill kennedy
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 11:15 AM

BTW Rapaire, I also work in a library in Cleveland! and have more books than I can fit in our small house, most are now in storage till I figure out some shelving and finish the remodeling. I do an Irish radio program on WRUW.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: GUEST,ivor
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 04:48 AM

I'm intrigued that of these interesting lists, such a high percentage is of fiction. And that with the incomprehensibly vast amount of interesting stuff to read (not to mention working, music, films, plays, paintings,seeing people) that there is time to read thru anyone's works over and over. Many congratulations.
I play Mahler enormously.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: GUEST,ivor
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 05:27 AM

I'm also puzzled that there's not much Shakespeare , given that so many, rightly sing his praises on the Shakespeare thread

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:05 AM

Just remembered another -- and it's due for rereading and probably also eminently suitable for reading aloud. "O Ye Jigs and Juleps!" by Virginia Cary Hudson

Now all I have to do is find my copy.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From:
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 09:22 AM

Hmm..
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark
The Drifters by James Michenor
Lord of the Ring Trilogy by Tolkien
Gabriella, Clove and Cinammon by Jorge Amado