Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde. I know it's not award-winning stuff, but for whatever reason I really liked this book.
Well... I'd read the Harry Potter books many times before but I've just re read the entire series twice in a row... I don't care what anyone says, I love those stories.
To Kill a Mockingbird. I haven't read it twice yet. Just finished it the first time round, but I know I will visit this book many many times again.
Most of them. Well, that's a bit of an overstatement, but if I like a book, I will generally read it twice, four times, six times... ChickenFreak
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott About once a year since I was twelve (including Good wives. which is stricly the second book, but is often published as if part of the first book) The Earth's Children Series- Jean M Auel. Twice Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen about once a year, and promptly after I read Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte just to confirm to myself that Miss Bronte was definitely a better writer Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy . Yes I have read this three times, madness I think I have read Athol Fugard over and over again to death. He's my favourite playwright, besides Mr Shakespeare.The Isand, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Boesman and Lena, The Road to Mecca, Master Harold and the Boys, Coming Home Anything by Stephen King I have probably read an indecent amount of times... blush
I've read Pride and Prejudice two times. I loved White Fang, definitely read that again. In the past, I haven't been really interested in the classics, but I'm coming to the point of reading them now. Lately, I've been caught up in nonfiction, almost entirely history. Anybody here read McCullough's 1776? Paul Revere's Ride by Fischer? No? Hmm. . .I guess I'm just really weird then
There are too many great books in the world to read the same ones twice. Having said that, I do pick up my favorites now and again to read segments.
I have never read a book twice funnily enough. Reading it thoroughly once is enough for me. Like most avid voracious readers, I usually have between 2 and 6 books on circulation which doesn't leave much time to go through anything again
I'm usually reading 4 or 5 books at a given time. I also rarely go back and read anything a second time. I've read The Brothers Karamazov three times, and Gormenghast twice, but apart from that I don't usually re-read books, even if I love them.
Oooh, I've read a few things more than once. I don't keep track, but here's a few of my favourites. Dune - read thing about a dozen times. Best book ever. Kinda. I've read Gormenghast more than once, same for 20,000 leagues under the sea. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has been through a couple of time too. I guess the books I reread most often are the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels. Having read them all at least once, I tend to read the different themes in order (the Nightwatch books, the Death books, the Rincewind books etc). They're comfortable, familiar, leave-your-brain-at-the-door books that are brilliant for mid-term. After going through 60-70 student essays a week often you don't feel like something heavy!
I read most things twice. Things I come back to are: Hardy Boys Little Women Discworld Kathy Reichs Agatha Christie Cadfael Gervase Phinn Alan Bennett My most read book read it about 5 times a year is Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill
V. by Thomas Pynchon The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edger Allen Poe House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielswki Let us Go and Make Our Visit, the poetry of T.S. Eliot and pretty much every novel H.P. Lovecraft ever wrote. I think I've read The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward a good five times.
You're not weird, sis. I've read The Root Cellar twice, probably five times. I've read all of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia twice too.
Are you saying most people dont read books more than twice? That's crazy! I read things twice, thrice, and more if I really enjoy them. I suppose I do this because my personal library is quite small... I rent library books much more than I purchase them, so the books I do own get a lot of love. I'm currently on my third round with Lolita by Nabokov this year. I'll probably read it many, many more times. I've read the first have of the Maximum Ride series (three separate novels) by James Patterson three times. I've read Daemon by Daniel Suarez twice (going back for more, surely). I've read The Kite Runner twice... The Screwtape Letters three times. Most of my Mary Higgins Clark novels and Kurt Vonnegut books have been read three or four times. I've read all of the Harry Potter books more than five times each, surely. I think my record has been with Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier more times than I can count. I take great care of all the books I own, but this copy is worn and the binding is falling apart becase I've read it probably about ten or fifteen times. I like reading books twice or thrice if they're quite good, and more if they are guilty pleasures of mine. I tend to read very quickly, so going back helps me catch things that I missed the first time, and I love picking out foreshadowing and other literary elements that you dont always catch the first time around.
This is exactly what I think every time I see this thread. I reread books like it's going out of style, man! Seriously, I don't even know how many times I've read Harry Potter...enough that no one will even play Harry Potter trivia with me... I love rereading books that I enjoy. There's nothing better.
I reread my books all the time. Most of the time I pick up on small things I didn't notice before. If I am lucky big chunks and whole sections of the book will no longer be in my memory. Oh how I would love to have the ability to erase everything about my favorite book from my memory except for the 'I loved it' and reread it with completely fresh eyes. lol If I keep/buy a book I tend to read it more then once if I enjoy it.
I really love, and this may be odd, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. There are 4 books in the series and I have read them all more than twice. I love how throughout all the books D.A. makes you think about live on our planet as insignificant because of all the things we really do not know about that exist in the far reaches of space. It really makes you wonder if we as a species are stupid to think that we are the most intelligent of all creation or just naive to believe that we are all there is or even the smartest.
I've read The Great Escape novel about nineteen times; I am still amazed that the POWs achieved what they did during that window of opportunity.
