It was due for a reread 15 yearss ago, for the film. Now, I doubt I'll ever do it, especially at the rate at which I read things like Howard, which are supposed to be a lot eassier.rEvolutionist wrote:I've done LoTR twice. Last time was probably 15 years ago. It's due for a reread soon.Svartalf wrote:Wow, I don't think I've read through that one more than twice, and one doesn't count as it was in French translation and an incomplete edition (somebody just left all the appendices aside)
Which book have you re-read the most?
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The Age of Uncertainty by JK Galbraith, who has the rare talent of making economics an entertaining subject. Mind you, I never read anything of book length nowadays. Twenty years of editing other people's work has put me off reading for pleasure, probably for life.
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It am wicked to mock the afflicted. [BH (Calcutta), failed]
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HGTTG. Still funny today.
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Use of Weapons. Ian M Banks
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Ummm, Animal Farm I think.
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Several I've reread multiple times, don't know which it tops. LOTR, Shogun, The Stand, Dune, 1984, Antic Hay, and just reread the Foundation Trilogy.
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What? Nobody picked The Bible?
For me, probably The Very Hungry Caterpillar or The Gruffalo. Most of these I've read more than once - and these are only the ones I kept.
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For me, probably The Very Hungry Caterpillar or The Gruffalo. Most of these I've read more than once - and these are only the ones I kept.
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The most? I'm pretty sure it's Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which I reread every December.Pappa wrote:Mine would be Nineteen Eighty-Four. I'm guessing I've read it about 12 times. At one point I used to read it every year or so.
I've always liked the feeling I get re-reading a favourite book.
After that, I think Foundation Trilogy, by Asimov, and his adventures of the Black Widowers, which I have reread a bunch of times. And, Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide. I think that's up there too.
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If we're including children's book then most definitely The Owl and the Pussycat. I must have read that 3000 times, know it off by heart. My favorite line is
Oh lovely Pussy, oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are.
Oh lovely Pussy, oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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The Owl and the Pussycat just conjures up images for me of Barbra Streisand in frilly lingerie with those two hands on her tits.laklak wrote:If we're including children's book then most definitely The Owl and the Pussycat. I must have read that 3000 times, know it off by heart. My favorite line is
Oh lovely Pussy, oh Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are.
Kids today, they don't know how good they have it. Back in the late 70s, we had to wank it to Barbra Streisand in a nightgown. Either that, or sneak a hidden stash of second-hand and trashed/crumpled Penthouse magazines...
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I've read The Wind in the Willows three or four times. I think it is the only book I have ever read more than once. It is utterly charming and timeless.
The internet has broken my attention span these days. Unless a book grabs me immediately I just put it down. Annoying!
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Is it just me or does Trump remind you of someone in the book lolMeekychuppet wrote:HGTTG. Still funny today.
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Doesn't that arrangement make it hard to get the book on the bottom?Brian Peacock wrote:What? Nobody picked The Bible?
For me, probably The Very Hungry Caterpillar or The Gruffalo. Most of these I've read more than once - and these are only the ones I kept.
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I have to stack the books a right angles to the rotational momentum of the mothership's central hub.
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