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Old 05-27-2010, 05:42 PM   #316
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Sylvia's hard. She writes about her pain beautifully, but I find that it's easy to get sucked in.

Once upon a time, my husband had a band. He used Tulips as the basis for one of their songs so I'll forever have that phrase about "a country as far away as health" stuck in my brain. Even with the pleasant association, it hurts.
In highschool on a particularly angsty day someone I sat with in English put a copy of Daddy in front of me, a few minutes later I was hooked.
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Old 05-27-2010, 07:02 PM   #317
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In highschool on a particularly angsty day someone I sat with in English put a copy of Daddy in front of me, a few minutes later I was hooked.
A hell of a poem!
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Old 05-27-2010, 07:07 PM   #318
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Old 05-27-2010, 07:17 PM   #319
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I have Read the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome many many times,

The Harry Potter books more than 30 times each,

But by far my most read books are ....

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis each of which I have read NO less than 80 Times and I am on my 6th set of them,

Yeah I'm crazy, and love childrens books,
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Old 05-27-2010, 10:13 PM   #320
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Most people have had a bad experience with poetry from school.....
ain't that the truth...
i still remember some poems that we had to learn by heart... loooong looooong poems..
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Old 05-27-2010, 11:41 PM   #321
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A Clockwork Orange gets read once per year it seems. The older the book gets the more relevant it becomes.

Read Ulysses about 10 times and I still don't get it It is my "white whale" of reading. My goal is to read that thing at least once without using a dictionary. Crazy the fine line between trash and masterpiece.

Other than that I try to stay current. I will dust off some old Feist or Brooks from time to time. Fantasy stuff from the 80s and early 90s is what got me hooked on reading truth be told.
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Old 05-28-2010, 04:25 AM   #322
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ain't that the truth...
i still remember some poems that we had to learn by heart... loooong looooong poems..
Actually, I think I rather enjoyed leaning poems by heart at school But I haven't read poetry in a very long time. Another thing to put on my "should do some day" list
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Old 05-28-2010, 07:42 AM   #323
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I have Read the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome many many times,

The Harry Potter books more than 30 times each,

But by far my most read books are ....

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis each of which I have read NO less than 80 Times and I am on my 6th set of them,

Yeah I'm crazy, and love childrens books,
You aren't the only one, I love children's books as well, and have read both the Harry Potter series and the Narnia series several times over. I recently started re-reading one of my favourite children's series growing up, "The Baby-sitters club"
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Old 05-29-2010, 11:15 AM   #324
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You aren't the only one, I love children's books as well, and have read both the Harry Potter series and the Narnia series several times over. I recently started re-reading one of my favourite children's series growing up, "The Baby-sitters club"


I'll look them up I haven't read them, I think in childrens litreture the story is often BETTER thought out
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Old 06-03-2010, 05:34 PM   #325
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Usually, I don't re-read books because I am a slow reader.
There are only a few books that I re-read:

The Lord of the Rings -5x
The Master and Margarita - 2x
Count of Monte Cristo - 3x, the third and the last time I was pretty much disappointed because I remembered most of it and for me the key to the book was in the mystery, not the details (vs. The Lord of Rings)
The Farseer trilogy - 2x
The Liveship trilogy - 2x
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott - 2x
Sherlock Holmes - ...at least a few times
Some novels and stories by Jack London Xx times.
The Gunslinger - 2x


That's it.
I am planning to re-read in future:
Harry Potter
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion
The Dark Tower
Ivanhoe
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Old 06-04-2010, 01:36 AM   #326
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These seem to be regular rereads, every few years-

Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles and House of Niccolo series
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series
C.J. Cherryh's Chanur series and most of the books from her Alliance/Union universe
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
P.G. Wodehouse's Leave It To Psmith and the Blanding's Castle stories

I've read lots of other stuff a couple or three times, but those above are the ones I fully expect to keep rereading. I don't think I've drained the life out of any of 'em. Particularly the Dunnett stuff which is a tough but rewarding read.
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Old 06-06-2010, 10:42 PM   #327
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I tend to re-read Lord of the Rings, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Dune, and the Harry Potter Series.
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Old 06-09-2010, 09:35 PM   #328
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Let me not forget Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies.
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Old 06-09-2010, 09:52 PM   #330
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Don't forget Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies!


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