Which Book Have You Read/Re-Read All Your Life? - Page 24

hidari · 06-22-2010, 07:41 AM

Calvino's Invisible Cities is a good one.... Ilike Palahniuk...but Fight Club did not do it for me. but a good book for NEWBIES to reading.

hidari · 06-22-2010, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by HamsterRage

Starship Troopers by Heinlein. The movie completely missed the point.

I thought The Movie GOT the point to an extent it was Banned in Deutchland...not sure if it still is....For me the film did it in almost an Ironic twist....

hidari · 06-22-2010, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by SmartyPants

ain't that the truth...

i still remember some poems that we had to learn by heart... loooong looooong poems..

Not Russian...but You know I did time in Russia.... 7 years.... and Loved every day of it....

Я Bac люблю.....

The Whether Man · 06-22-2010, 07:32 PM

I like to read The Phantom Tollbooth once a year; the last time I did so I picked up on a previously unnoticed math-based joke.

harakiri · 06-23-2010, 08:17 AM

@ hidari

Starship Troopers is not banned in Germany.
Its just not available widely as its not supposed to be sold to minors. So you can't just order it on Amazon for example.

A version that is cut is available though and even sometimes shown on public televison.

As for rereading books. for me its the Hobbit, usually followed by LOTR.
Reread Harry Potter recently. Liked it better the second time so I guess this might happen now from time to time.
Also the Ender books are some favorites.

Unfortunately still the paper versions ....

mike_bike_kite · 06-24-2010, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by hidari

Fight Club did not do it for me. but a good book for NEWBIES to reading.

is this because it uses small words?
short sentences??
or do you feel the central argument against unquestioning consumerism should be more accurately directed towards our younger readers?

khalleron · 06-25-2010, 01:07 AM

Well, there are a ton of books I reread every few years - I have a room full of them, but if you mean *all* my life, then I have to say 'Little Women'. Just read it again and I swear that book gets better every time I read it.

poohbear_nc · 06-25-2010, 09:16 AM

Those are the greatest books to re-read -- the ones that keep getting better & better -- or the ones in which you keep discovering new things you'd never noticed before!

Wordcrasher · 06-25-2010, 11:26 AM

When I was a boy I used to reread a lot, as I had more time then money.
I reread lot of times Nine princes in Amber, The Door to Summer, and that great book with "Don't Panic" on the cover

As a grown-up I reread several times Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar and High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

dougf4 · 06-26-2010, 11:45 AM

Arundel by Kenneth Roberts, my favorite American historical novelist.

Although I have not read any of his books in electronic format. If anyone knows of a source I would appreciate knowing of it.

DMcCunney · 06-26-2010, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dougf4

Arundel by Kenneth Roberts, my favorite American historical novelist.

That's a good one. I still fondly remember one character's description of another as a pig-nut, which is a nut with a shell so hard you need a sledge hammer to crack it, but once you have there's nothing inside worth getting to. I know an assortment of people with heads like that...

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Although I have not read any of his books in electronic format. If anyone knows of a source I would appreciate knowing of it.

I haven't seen any. At some point, I want to find and read _Oliver Wiswell_, told from the point of view of a Tory. The revolution was not universally popular in the colonies, and life must have been interesting for those who opposed it.
______
Dennis

yakuzaboss · 08-26-2010, 12:02 PM

Kane and Abel by Jeffery Archer is one of my favorite books. I've been a fan ever since I read Honor Among Thieves. Ulysses by James Joyce is another book I can always turn to.

stardustshadow · 08-26-2010, 12:04 PM

I have read 'The Lord of the Rings' approximately once a year since I was 12. It is like comfort food now...the familiar words help me sleep if I am sleepless, the phrases bring me to a comfortable place in my head.

stardustshadow · 08-26-2010, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Iphinome

Give Sylvia Plath a chance.

Yes, her poetry is amazing. It spoke to me at certain (painful) times.

SeaBookGuy · 08-26-2010, 07:29 PM

I'm not a big re-reader at all (nor do I understand the concept of "keeper" books), but one that I did read again not long ago was William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, which wasn't "dated" at all!

08-26-2010, 12:02 PM	#357
yakuzaboss Groupie Posts: 171 Karma: 58 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Richmond, BC Device: Sony PRS-650	Kane and Abel by Jeffery Archer is one of my favorite books. I've been a fan ever since I read Honor Among Thieves. Ulysses by James Joyce is another book I can always turn to. Last edited by yakuzaboss; 08-26-2010 at 12:55 PM.

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harakiri Groupie Posts: 174 Karma: 464618 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Germany Device: Kindle Oasis 2	@ hidari Starship Troopers is not banned in Germany. Its just not available widely as its not supposed to be sold to minors. So you can't just order it on Amazon for example. A version that is cut is available though and even sometimes shown on public televison. As for rereading books. for me its the Hobbit, usually followed by LOTR. Reread Harry Potter recently. Liked it better the second time so I guess this might happen now from time to time. Also the Ender books are some favorites. Unfortunately still the paper versions ....

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khalleron Kate Posts: 1,700 Karma: 3605799 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Oregon, United States Device: MeeBook, Kobo Libra Colour	Well, there are a ton of books I reread every few years - I have a room full of them, but if you mean all my life, then I have to say 'Little Women'. Just read it again and I swear that book gets better every time I read it.

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poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,478 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Those are the greatest books to re-read -- the ones that keep getting better & better -- or the ones in which you keep discovering new things you'd never noticed before!

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Wordcrasher Addict Posts: 253 Karma: 1246 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Vicenza, Italy Device: Kindle Fire 2015, Kindle Paperwhite	When I was a boy I used to reread a lot, as I had more time then money. I reread lot of times Nine princes in Amber, The Door to Summer, and that great book with "Don't Panic" on the cover As a grown-up I reread several times Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar and High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

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dougf4 Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 838 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Nook Tablet (Rooted), jetbook lite	Arundel by Kenneth Roberts, my favorite American historical novelist. Although I have not read any of his books in electronic format. If anyone knows of a source I would appreciate knowing of it.

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stardustshadow Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: none (yet!!)	I have read 'The Lord of the Rings' approximately once a year since I was 12. It is like comfort food now...the familiar words help me sleep if I am sleepless, the phrases bring me to a comfortable place in my head.

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