No.12774
What books have you reread the most often?
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No.12778
Only textbooks. I never reread books unless I really want to know all of it, including the small details that my brain rightly sees as unimportant but my professors don't.
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No.12782
reread, from cover to cover, none in particular.
each book i ever reread i've only reread once.
but i pick up the master and margarita every now and then and read some.
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No.12826
I read the Hitchhiker's series, Chronicles of Narnia, and Huck Finn twice each. Those are the only books I've read multiple times and that's just cause it was before I was internet literate and that was all I had.
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No.12831
Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, Greene's The Quiet American, Pynchon's Inherent Vice, Smith's The Wardove.
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No.12904
Enders Game, but only the first one, the rest are a one time read only for me
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No.12906
>>12774
The Little Prince when i was a kid.
No One Writes to the Colonel
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No.12909
>>12782
come to think of it. i re read once or twice, wilde's the happy prince. it's one of the things my mom used to read to me and my brothers before sleeping.
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No.12912
None. So far every book I've read was read once. The works of Dostoyevsky are very appealing to read multiple times and am procrastinating my second readthrough of Crime and Punishment with other literary works. Maybe when I'm done with Moby-Dick I'll read C&P again … maybe.
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No.13078
I very rarely reread books. On the one hand, I'm disappointed in myself for this, because on a second reading a book often contains a lot of little tidbits that you don't notice the first time around. On the other hand, I know that I'm not going to appreciate a book as much on the surface level if I already know its conclusion.
There are a few books that I've read more than once. More than I thought at first, but less than you'd think.
The Sherlock Holmes series, which I find interesting because I like to examine the personality of Holmes. I occasionally pick that up and read random pieces of it over again.
His Majesty's Dragon, which is the American title of the first book in the Temeraire series, which I've read three times because I like the way the titular Temeraire speaks. For context, his character is not human and asks a lot of questions about human society that Captain Laurence, the other protagonist, has a hard time understanding; I enjoy thinking about these questions, which is part of why I love this series.
The other one is Lovecraft's fiction, which I've reread with astonishing frequency and I don't actually know why. I think it's because Lovecraft uses horror as a device to really dig deeply into a character's psychology, and it was Lovecraft's fiction that made me realize that I love stories that delve deep into the mind of the protagonist and really dirty themselves with the details of the characters' darkest fears.
Finally, there's The Hobbit, which I've read at least five times, mostly because it used to be my favorite book but also because it's a distinctive gem in the fantasy genre, which in recent years has become monochrome and stale in comparison. I love fantasy and it makes me want to cry when I browse the fantasy section of book stores and I see how bland and tasteless the genre has become.
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No.13085
>>12774
Readread The Master and Margarita last month - after last reading it when it came out in its first English translation in the 70s … ummm bit disappointing to tell the truth. In memory it had been closer to the Faust legend, whereas its absurdist qualities to my mind detracted from its meaning. Like The Magus (John Fowles) or much of Herman Hesse of more or less the same period, the disconnected and inexplicable jumping in narrative to create a sense of the arcane becomes wearing with greater familiarity.
I guess more than a third of my reading is rereading as it gives me insight into the changing social milieu of the times and also my own different response into how my own perspectives develop.
Do bedside fap books count? - I always preferred novels like Burroughs Soft Machine (Corgi edition) to mags. Now its .avi porn …
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No.13097
I've read Lolita three times and Lord of the Flies twice. That is about it really for actual books. There are about a dozen fanfiction stories (not "one-shots") that I've read 5-10 times.
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No.13831
>>12774
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (for sentimental reasons
Steppenwolf
some short story collections and a couple books of poetry
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No.13834
The only books I believe I've reread include Brave New World and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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No.13852
I don't even have the time these days to read most of my books once let alone twice…
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No.13858
>>13852
Pretty much this. There's thousands of books I want to read, I don't have the time to reread anything unless I'm doing it for school. I'll start rereading shit when I'm 65 and retired.
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No.13859
Raymond Queneau's Les fleurs bleues and Sade's Justine probably.
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No.13927
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No.13976
I've read The Once and Future King by T.H. White 4 or 5 times. Only other book I can think of having read multiple times was The Great Gatsby and the only reason I read it a second time was because I had to for a school project.
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No.13980
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, along with A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. They both feel like they're written in a very casual tone, which makes it really easy to get back into reading either. Reading them makes me feel a bit better when I'm feeling down.
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No.13983
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan, Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut, and Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by That guy I read to impress girls I can't rememerr the name of…Robbins?
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No.14218
>>12774
1984, how to win friends, homer is also a good one to have.
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No.14219
>>12826
mark twain is another one that ive read multiple.
>>12904
ender's game is so entry level.
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No.14374
>>12826
this too, i've read huck finn and tom sawyer both twice, maybe 3 times, not sure, and the rest of mark twain I've listened to on voice recordings
coincedentally, I hated hitchikers guide and ender's game.>>12904
>>12912
i've read discipline and punish which is basically the french version of those landmark books on this prison system, but tried doestoyevsky and tolstoy and couldnt finish, lost interest. I know that seems like a crime especially posting on boards like these, but I've read enough books to know when I can allow myself to put one down every once in a while. I occasionally will either burn it or sell it. other books that I'm actually interested, I will force myself to read, and place them on my bookshelf so I remember to read them in that specific order. Also, have read and loved moby dick, but not read twice, though I would enjoy it.
>>13834
i read brave new world, but only because they have those flyers for it in B & N and its somewhat applicable to today's age.
>>14218
I've read 1984 three to 5 times, can't remember.
>>14219
totally agree. people that read a lot are on the same page so to speak.
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No.14383
>>13983
someone else has read Brautigan? this is like spotting a hornless unicorn. have you read some of his other stuff like trout fishing sugarpill etc?
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No.14384
>Veljeni Leijonamieli
Adventure story of two brothers. Younger is crippled and very sick and is saved from burning house by his older brother, who dies doing that. Later his brother appears on his bedside as a bird telling of life after death, a place called Nangiala. Younger brother soon dies of his sickness. He also respawns in Nangiala as promised with all his diseases gone, but Nangiala soon spirals into war. It's very good and very dark heroic fantasy for something labeled as children's book.
>Tuntematon sotilas
Story of mismatch reservist infantry company in Continuity War told via their eyes from start to finish, and it's more of a character book than war story, while still managing to be great war story. Considered literature diamond for a reason, storytelling is incredible, moving effortlessly between characters and perspective.
>1984
You all know this.
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No.14397
>>14384
Thanks, I was considering reading The Brothers Lionheart.
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No.15671
I’ve reread If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler three or four times now. I’m thinking I’ll come back to it either in the fall or next spring.
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No.15677
>>12774
>implying I read them the first time
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No.15829
>>13085
>whereas its absurdist qualities to my mind detracted from its meaning
pleb
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No.15836
>>12774
I have so many books now, and I'm such a slow reader, that I don't have time to reread anything.
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