What books do you read and read again?

i've read "The Song of the Lioness" by Tamora Pierce lots of times (like 7 or 8), its a great book, a little too young for me now perhaps. Its so long that i forget bits of it, and then when i re-read it (because its such a good read), i remember all the bits ive forgotten and also get lots more new interesting things out of the storyline.

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thank you!
umm.... the book 4 books in one, and it's about a girl who switches place with her twin brother, she becomes a knight and he becomes a wizard, yet noone knows she is a girl. Its all about how she grows up and becomes a knight, she also becomes a sorceress and battles her enemy. It is quite a complicated storyline and as i said i can read it over and over.
It does all sounds rather childish written down like this, but i enjoyed reading it when i was younger. I think it struck a chord with me, with all the things i was interested in and fantasised for me!

Harry Potter
An Uncommon Reader
Dorothy Sayers novels

I find it very difficult to read the same book twice. So when it happens, its very rare.

Most of the time rereads were an occurrence of college related assignment. Of the books I've reread at least two or three times for school purposes. : Dracula; Frankenstein; and 1984, which was made me happy considering its my favorite book of all time.

And off the top of my head, the only other book I have reread more then once, for other then school related purposes was Watership Down.

The ironic thing was I purchased the essay anthology This I Believe with the specific purpose to reread during times of stress and emotional difficulty. Especially these days, they would be much appreciated. However, I have yet to take up the book from its bookshelf position.

I re-read less as I get older.

There were books that I did read again and again, and I occasionally still do, but fewer and fewer.

Every once and awhile I take out my favorite book of poetry;
Richard Wright's Haiku: This Other World:

Haiku?

Gezundheit!

<<sniffle>> Thanks...

So'netting.

Keep 'em away from Watership Down if it doesn't depress him into suicide, he might get some ideas about setting up a rabbit utopia. Perhaps starting with a possible Bloody Easter Revolution!

Him?

Have you read Year of the Angry Rabbit?

No I have not but I'm intrigued. Who wrote it? Satire or fantasy or satirical fantasy or work nonfiction memoir?

Satire, fantasy, sf:


http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/angry_rabbit.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Angry_Rabbit

http://www.amazon.com/year-angry-rabbit-Russell-Braddon/dp/B0007E24B2

I rarely read a book again, except by mistake.

But some are treasures to me.

I havn't read everything here but I suprised that from what I read not one person metioned Harry Potter. I am totally obsessed.

it's funny, i tried to read the harry potter books but couldn't get into them (probably would have if they'd been around when i was younger), but then i heard the audiobooks read by british author/writer/actor stephen fry and loved them, i've listened to the whole series 3 times, and i think i'll give them another go before the last movie comes out

I've never re-read them....Stephen Fry as narrator is rather a draw, though!

I am able now to download audio-books from itunes reasonable cheaply, and I am enjoying a few of them.

I find the American accents in some of them (for the narrated parts, not so much the quotes if the character is USian) very jarring, though (depending on the accent)...that is SO not the voice I hear in my head when reading!

The English ones sound fine to me, though. Odd, huh?