Thread: Books you read over and over?

Originally Posted by ndw76

One book I come back to often is called 'An oral history of the zombie war.' By Max Brooks (The son of Mal Brooks) It is a fictional oral history account of survivors of a world wide apocolyptic war with zombies. I come back to this book for two reasons. Firstly it is entirely plausable, apart from people coming back from the dead. And the second reason is that sometimes it is fun to read something that dances on the grave of the world.

World War Z is a very very very good book. I don;t even like zombies, but darnnit this is a good one. I have figured out how to destroy the staircase in my house in the event....

I keep going to Demon Haunted World by Sagan. I miss him. Such a polite, humane, rational voice. It's a really comforting book in a lot of ways.

All my other "return" books have to do with politics.

Rereading is actually scarce, but Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose was pretty good at each point. Sun Zu - The Art of War, Elias Canetti - Masses and Power, Tolkien - Lord of the Rings.

Nowadays its more DVDs.

All of the C.S. Lewis books, especially the Narnia series, and the Tolkien trilogy + The Hobbit. In the SF realm, it has to be "Search the Sky" by Frederick Pohl.

Voyage from Yesteryear, by James P. Hogan.

Several of Robert A. Heinlein's works.

The "Fuzzies" series by H. Beam Piper.

A Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho). Written by Miyamoto Musashi. Translated by Victor Harris

The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan. Only because he releases a book every couple of years and I have to re-read the series to remember what is going on.

I hear the last book in the 13 book series will now be 3 books and the first is scheduled for November.

Here is my most read list

The Foxfire sieres of books
any book edited by Paul Hasluck
Handicraft by Lester Griswold
Popular Mechanics Shop Notes sieries reprint from Lee Valley
The Dave Gingery build your own machine shop books
John Gardener's boat building books


Charlie

I've pretty much reread every book I own a few times, I seem to have trouble with libraries... they always seem to want money from me.. But in particular, I've reread all the Frank Herbert I own at least 5 times each, likely more--you really do seem to glean more and more each time you read it with a more mature perspective. I'm planning to reread the lord of the rings series as well--I've reread that at least 6 times, though not recently. Other authors that have gotten more then their fair share of rereading are McCarthy, Robert Graves, and Douglas Adams. I'm sure there are others I'm just not thinking of.

Do you mean aside from the Holy Bible?

I am addicted to Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey series.

Originally Posted by sicboater

The one I wore out a few times:

Anthology For A New Millennium (Buckminster Fuller!)

YES! Good to see Bucky making the rounds here at SRP. Everyone cannot read enough of him, IMHO.

the bible. papillon once every 5 to ten years i even read it aloud to my wife