Thread: Books you read over and over?

The Bible
The Republic by Plato
The Prince by Machiavelli
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

Some that I forgot to mention:

The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Federalist Papers (especially #2, 10, 39, 51, 45, and 76)

All Terry Pratchett books. Some 10 times already.
Other Fantasy or SF as well, though not nearly as often.

i wonder if i ever reread a book. i have favorites that i would probably do again some day, but usually there are so many others i want to read which get higher priority.

Anything by Pratchett,

The sword of Truth series,

Ender's Game.

The Princess Bride,

Cyrano de Bergerac

Hmmm not many I re-read, but a few

Sometimes before and during a long hunting trip I have to read the Jean Auel "Earth Children" series, makes me want to go hunt Mammoth or something....

The two Stephen Hunter Books "Point of Impact" and "Time to Hunt" basis of the movie "The Shooter" but way better read than watched

Now here is real OCD, I can't get rid of books, I have every one I have read, (unless they were lost in a move) if somebody wants to borrow one I buy them a copy or buy me another copy....

The one I wore out a few times:

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Others I read frequently:
Watership Down
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Will To Power Nietzsche (his greatest "b-sides")
Anthology For A New Millennium (Buckminster Fuller!)
Universal Principles of Design
Thy Kingdom Come

One that is going to make the list I am sure:
The Road-McCarthy

We don't have cable, we spend too much on books.


-Rob

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ham on Rye and The Hitchhiker's Guide are on my steady rotation.

The BIBLE
WITHOUT REMORSE by Tom Clancy. I have read it several times. I always skip all the parts with Robin Zacharias in them. He's a puke and an idiotic weakling, IMHO.
LONESOME DOVE by Larry McMurtry. I read it about every eighteen months and I have for near twenty years.
1632 by Eric Flint. Interesting concept. A present day town in West Virginia being transported back to the Seventeenth Century.
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT by Samuel Langhorn Clemens. What can I say? It's Twain.
THE U. S. CONSTITUTION I read it in it's entirety, at least once a year.
Two books of writings by Charles A. (Skeeter) Skelton. They are collections of 'essays' that had originally been published as articles in Gun Magazines.
YOUR CABIN IN THE WOODS by Conrad Meineke. Some day...
Several texts on Blacksmithing. THE EDGE OF THE ANVIL by Jack Andrews, THE NEW BLACKSMITH by Aldren A. Watson, COUNTRY BLACKSMITHING by Charles McRaven, THE ART OF BLACKSMITHING by Alex W. Bealer,
I have read practically everything Louis L'Amour ever wrote. I read him on a continuing basis. One of his best is LAST OF THE BREED.

Hmmm... The Stand, The Talisman and Black House, The Dark Tower series, all by Stephen King...
On Liberty by JS Mill
Die Verwandlung/Metamorphasis by Kafka (the only thing of his I think is worth reading, really...)
Shogun, James Clavell...
"Ender's Game" By Orson Scott Card,
Herodotus' Histories...
"Peace", Gene Wolfe (If you haven't read Gene Wolfe, do it. Seriously. Forget the genre descriptions, get "Peace" or "Soldier of Sidon" and challenge yourself...)

Actually, TONS of stuff. I'm a rereader. If something's worth finishing, it's worth finishing more than once...

I have a feeling I'm going to be rereading a lot of Mcarthy now. Just finished "Blood Meridian," "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men" and...yeah. Something else.