Which Book Have You Read/Re-Read All Your Life?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Brautigan is another author I read in my youth (in French) and have been vaguely meaning to read again some day. I only read a few short stories but I loved them.

I liked his poetry the best. Some poems were hit-and-miss, but others were right on time.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Georgiegirl2012

Just remembered that I used to regularly read my sister's Sue Barton nurse series books by Helen Dore Boylston - not sure they are still in print.

I'm late to responding, but the Sue Barton books are available from Image Cascade, which republishes girls' series books.

http://www.imagecascade.com/helen-do...ton-books.html

I loved this series and acquired the books with difficulty in the pre-Image Cascade days. I think they hold up remarkably well, as an exploration of balancing career and private life as viewed through the prism of the 1930s and 1940s.

[markuskane]

Books I read every year:

1. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
2. Catch 22
3. Watership Down
4. The Sun Also Rises
5. The Stand

[scuba0620]

My most-oft-read-book is two-fold; Catch-22 and Little Women.

[frisp]

Of Mice And Men - John John Steinbeck.

[rmanazir]

In response to which book do you keep re-reading I have two by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. I've been reading these books for years and each time I read them (especially Huck Finn) I find something new and exciting. They keep the kid inside of me alive and kicking as well as cater to my desire for adventure.

[sportourer1]

39 Steps and the other Richard Hannay books of John Buchan

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by sportourer1

39 Steps and the other Richard Hannay books of John Buchan

Which are available in MobileRead's Patricia Clark Memorial Library in omnibus editions created by HarryT in MobiPocket and Sony Reader BBeB/LRF formats:

Mobi: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ht=john+buchan

Sony: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ht=john+buchan

An ePub edition should be forthcoming when Harry finishes a proofing cycle.
______
Dennis

[elizilla]

I loved the Pern books enough to reread the first six of them over and over. But few of the ones she has done since, hold up to that standard - I think she's become so popular that editors can't make her revise them properly.

I love Lois McMaster Bujold. The Vorkosigan series is great, and is available free at http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/2...CD/CryoburnCD/. I'm also a fan of _The Curse of Chalion_ and _Paladin of Souls_. I love how the protagonists crawl out of the pit of despair, and into glorious redemption. Ista, especially. In one of the Vorkosigan books, there's a woman who says she doesn't want to get married because for women that's the end of the story - the only thing that married women ever do is give birth to the hero and die young. Bujold seems to have created Ista to follow up that thought; she's a 40 year old widow who runs away and becomes the hero of her own story.

Like others here I love _Pride and Prejudice_ and have read it many times.

I recently read a YA book that I think will end up on my reread pile, it's called _Special Topics In Calamity Physics_ by Marisha Pessl. It's a mystery story and I won't give any spoilers, I'll just say that when I got to the end, I had to go read it again because once I knew the ending I wanted to see all the clues go by again.

[thinkpad]

Originally Posted by elizilla

I love Lois McMaster Bujold. The Vorkosigan series is great

This has been on my reading list for quite some time now and as soon as I start a new book I always manage to pick something else. My TBR list is growing by the day, which makes it hard to choose what to read next

[Lyn2012]

Although I have re-read many books at different stages of my life, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Chronicles of Narnia, The Foundation Trilogy, Asimov's Robot series among them, the series that are always with me are Anne McCaffrey's dragon books and the Darkover books by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

[James_Wilde]

A Swedish book, "Röde Orm" (I think it's called "The Longships" in English) lies permanently on a stool beside the toilet. "Pride and Prejudice" is not allowed to be moved from my bedside table, and another one, which my sister finally found for me in a second hand store, is Elleston Trevor's childrens' book, "Deep Wood".

Not that I always read the first on the toilet, nor the other two in bed, but they are there to be read.

[Cpl Punishment]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I'm curious to see if anyone else has that one specific special book that they keep going back to re-read -- and never tire of or replace.
So give - what book have you lugged around and read over a lifetime of reading?

The Iliad and the Odyssey..Homer

[rumplestiltskin]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Time and Again by Jack Finney. (Never knew he also wrote "The Body Snatchers" which, of course, was made into a classic SciFi movie in the '50's.)

[Illinifan]

Originally Posted by Danny Fekete

No love for Douglas Adams? I've been hitting Last Chance to See and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency about once a year since I discovered them. I also keep coming back to Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

I've re-read the Hitchkiker's Guide increasingly misnamed "trilogy" multiple times and still laugh. "Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."