BS: Books You've Read More Than Once

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: *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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 03:03 PM

"Stood the teepee of Nokomiss" ...

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: 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: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 04:11 PM

Well in the lead from the diskworld series, which get re-read each time a new one comes out, I have Dragonsong and Dragonsinger from Anne Mcaffrey's Pern books.
Dragonsinger is ahead by about three read throughs. It just says so much about the thrill of music.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: TIA
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 09:28 PM

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander - once a year for the last 24 years. Better than LOTR IMHO. Taran Wanderer (4th out of 5) has had more influence on me than any other book.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Deda
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 11:34 PM

I'm currently re-reading both Hemingway (Old Man and the Sea) and Jane Austen -- Pride & Prejudice. I have the week off and am hoping to re-read quite a few of hers. I haven't re-read her for many years, I have to ration myself because once I start in on anything by her I become largely non-functional.

I've re-read a lot of things that I was teaching. I've taught home-schoolers a lot of Latin so I've re-read quite a lot of Caesar and Virgil, plus some general lit stuff - including 1984, Catch22, and (one worth re-reading often) Huck Finn. I've re-read Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Sherlock Holmes, Alice & Through the Looking Glass, many children's books. I love re-reading children's books. Reread All the King's Men but I think I could re-read it again. I've read Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land twice, am probably due for a second reading.

I've re-read some parts of the Bible and never read other parts. Ditto Shakespeare, haven't read all the histories even once.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: alison
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 01:27 AM

Once a year or as often as possible

Daphen Du Maurier - Frenchman's Creek (excellent escapism) & Jamaica Inn
C.S. Lewis - the Narnia Chronicles
Peter Mayle - a Year in Provence (+ the various sequels)
Marion Zimmer Bradley - the Mists of Avalon

I must be one of the few never to have read LOTR - couldn't get past all tha "aragorn son of arathorn............ blah blah blah" stuff...

maybe I should try again

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 04:24 PM

In the late 1950s I was attending a school in NYC. 8th grade, I think. Mondays & Wednesdays we had French class for an hour. Tuesdays & Thursdays we had German. (On Fridays, no lang. class, we got out of school an hour early.) I did well in German, but the French instructor was awful. He spent the whole hour with his back to the class, writing irregular verbs on the blackboard. That year, only reading in French class(book under desktop) I managed to go all the way through Huck Finn 3 times. And in April was able to compose my French essay quickly. 4 words--"Le printemps et ici."--as I remember. I had also previously read Tom Sawyer, and have gone back to both later.   I love Barbara Kingsolver, too. Her stuff is rich--like cooking with full cream and butter, instead of skim milk and veggie oil.                            Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: GUEST,James
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 11:42 AM

Everything by Virginia Woolf. I read the Waves every year.; A stunning book. Wuthering Heights, Emma by Jane Austin. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, Rob Roy by Walter Scott, Many of the Hornblower boos and a lot of C.S. Lewis.Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves, The Goshawk by T. H. White, Dead Souls by Gogol . Oh soooooo many, I like these threads because I get a great list of what to read next. Thank you all very much.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 12:17 PM

Everything by Robertson Davies but most often The Deptford Trilogy.

A Prayer For Owen Meany

Atlas Shrugged

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

Song Of The Dodo

Jack Finney's "Time" books

Biographies of Sir Richard Burton

The Giving Tree

Ferdinand The Bull

I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream????? I haven't thought of that in years.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: gnu
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 02:28 PM

Trinity, by Leon Uris.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha.
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 02:38 PM

The Green Fool, and Tarry Flynn, by Patrick Kavanagh, Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan, and The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 06:04 PM

I used to read A Christmas Carol every Christmas to conjure up the magic of that Christmas Spirit. Haven't read it in years, though. Moby Dick I have re-read about every seven years, each time as if I were taking yet another voyage on the doomed Pequod..."Call me Ishmael."
I recently re-read Hesse's Steppenwolf and Sartre's The Age of Reason, and prior to the first Trilogy movie, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, although I consider Tolkein good entertainment rather than great literature. Certain Shakespeare plays I have read numerous times, including Henry V, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Midsummer Night's Dream,, and The Tempest.

LEJ

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: bobad
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 08:33 PM

Yes Borstal Boy, one of my faves.

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

I hate to admit how many times I've re-read Patrick O'Brian's Captain Aubrey series. I definitely encourage those who are re-reading their Hornblower books to try something more substantial. The action is great but incidental to the word play between the captain and his best friend the surgeon.

Other books? Well, here's a short list:

HMS Ulysses - the first war story I ever read which didn't have a happy ending

War Birds (Diary of the Unknown Aviator) - the second war story I ever read which didn't have a happy ending

The Castle by Kafka because I still haven't figured it out

Cockalorum by Hamish Maclaren because I'm still trying to figure him out

American: The Life Story of a Great Indian

Anything by Ursula LeGuin

The Crock of Gold because one cannot predict where this tale will go

Hard Times because reality is much stranger than fiction

The Man Who Was Thursday because you never know who you can trust!

The Magus because the mystery still remains

Time & Again because if we just could focus hard enough we could shift to another time and place

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 09:29 AM

Hey, chalk up another thread that I managed to kill!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 09:48 AM

Bester's "Stars My Destination"
Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces"
Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Stoker's "Dracula"
Myers' "Silverlock" and "The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter"
Gaarder's "Sophie's World"
Newman's "Company of Adventurers"
Berton's "Vimy"
Card's "Alvin Maker" series
Lanier's "Hiero" books
Shea's "Nifft the Lean"
Cousteau's "The Silent World"
Somerville & Ross' "The Irish R.M."
Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small"
Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy"
Tolkien

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: JennyDeckner
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 05:05 PM

Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Lolita - Nabokov
Homeland - Sam Lipsyte
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
the various plays, books, and essays of Tony Kushner

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 07:17 PM

Mostly I feel I have too much to read the first time and not enough time to reread well-loved books, but then I find myself ambushed by a reread and really have no choice in the matter but to lay back and enjoy it.

Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Helenga
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers
Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler
Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God - Joe Coomer
My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat by Sandol Stoddard
Richard Halliburton books
Mary Stewart's Arthurian Trilogy
The first 4 or 5 Dune books
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Trilogy" by Douglas Adams
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Travis McGee series
The Harrad Experiment by Robert H. Rimmer
Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne -- Actually, I've never FINISHED it; I keep getting wrapped up in the language and then I don't get back to it until I have to start at the beginning again.
Heinlein's Lazarus Long books
How to Save Your Own Life - Erica Jong
Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macauley
All of Robertson Davies (but, like Sinsull, the Deptford Trilogy most often)

And now, I guess, you've all just reminded me to make time to read a couple of these again and a couple on other people's lists!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 09:13 PM

Linn-

Thanks for reminding me to re-read Mary Stewart's Arthurian Trilogy. It should hold up well.

Then for the past five years I've been trying to work my way through Hamish Maclaren's THE PRIVATE OPINIONS OF A BRITISH BLUEJACKET and I've just resumed reading. I think I'm just beginning to decode it. It's written inlower deck naval dialect and phonetically spelled, with occasional puncuation.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Nov 05 - 09:45 AM

It's also probably about time to reread Allan Villiers' "Falmouth for Orders" -- I may have already reread it, but the rereading was lost in the mists of prehistory.

Oh! And I forgot to include "The Haunted Bookshop" and "Parnassus On Wheels" (and anythng else I can lay my hands on) by Christopher Morley.

Despite the immense stack of books next to the bed (and on the stairs and in bookcases -- what! bookcases?!?) that need to be read the FIRST time, this thread is reminding me of all sorts of books that need to have a reread scheduled.

And I'm only 2000 years behind in my reading now (and they keep publishing more; sigh).

Linn
The Book Mavin of Nottingham

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Nov 05 - 10:53 AM

Then there is "Cold Comfort Farm," Stella Gibbons witty literary parody of various authors who wrote novels where the heroine tidies up someone's dysfunctional life. But I always enjoyed as a straight story as well.

No one has mentioned John Collier's fine book of "witty, ironic and subtly lethal" short stories entitled "Fancies & Goodnights." I used to find them hysterically funny. Maybe it's time to reread them? My friends and I at college used to enjoy readings these to one another. It was our early version of a wireless network.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 25 Nov 05 - 08:01 AM

How did this manage to fall off the list?

The other more recent rereads include reading the entire Harry Potter series aloud to Curmudgeon. Started while he was recovering from his heart surgery last year. Right now we're almost finished with Halfblood Prince, but that's a first time read.

I'd forgotten how much fun it is to read aloud. (But another good one for that in my list above is "My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat".

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 25 Nov 05 - 12:07 PM

Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Of Mice & Men -    "
Iliad and Odyssey - not really re-read, but sampling various
                   translations, most recently Fagles'.
Rivers of Glory ) - F. Van Wyck Mason. A tetrology of novels set
Stars on the Sea)   during the War for Independence. The other two
                   titles escape me.
Jewish Antiquities - Flavius Josephus
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - S. T. Coleridge. I read this (aloud)
                   every 2-3 years, and have since Jr. H.S.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Nov 05 - 01:53 PM

Today while listening to a rebroadcast Diane Rehm intereview about endganged birds I was reminded of one I've read several times--to my children.

Charlotte's Web

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Nov 05 - 01:53 PM

Proof read proof read proof read. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Deda
Date: 26 Nov 05 - 01:52 PM

OK, I'm very curious. I'd never heard of "My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat" before, and I searched for it on both Amazon and Alibris, seems it can't be bought for less than about $45 or so. My local (Boulder, CO) public library doesn't have it. So could one of the re-readers please give me a little info, what kind of book is it??

Many thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Nov 05 - 02:39 PM

All Sherlock Holmes stories.
All Robert B. Parker's Spenser stories.
Most of Milligan's war memoirs.
Most of George Melly's Autobiographies.
Jack's Return Home (Get Carter) by Ted Lewis.
Moby Dick (short version)
Moulded In Earth by Richard Vaughan.
The fist four "Harry Palmer" books by Len Deighton.
Most of the Morse books.

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 26 Nov 05 - 03:29 PM

I also forgot to mention the wonderful "Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast" series by Bill Richardson. I also read those again aloud to Tom.

Some books just don't work as read alouds -- even ones you think might.

But Harry Potter and Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast are both fine read aloud series.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 26 Nov 05 - 05:35 PM

Many volumes of Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, The Far Side and more recently, Get Fuzzy.

Jerry