Books You Have Read More Than Once

[Pawn]

It's easy to watch a movie over and over again but it requires a special love to read a book for the second or third time. My challenge to you, list some books that you have read more than once.

Here's some of mine (this is the short list)

1. Clear and Present Danger-Tom Clancy
2. The Hobbit-J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jurassic Park-Michael Crichton
4. The Stand-Stephen King
5. Salem's Lot-Stephen King
6. The Princess Bride-William Goldman
7. 1984-George Orwell
8. The Lord of the Flies-William Golding
9. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn-Betty Smith
10. Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card

wow. I just realized that these have all been made into movies--some good, some not so good.

[Sir Toose]

Nice!

And a King fan to boot.

Currently I'm re-reading the Dark Tower series (I'm on The Wastelands right now).

Some others:

1). Aztec - Gary Jennings
2). Any and every King novel
3). The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
4). Man and his Symbols - Carl Jung
5). The Holy Bible - God ;)
6). The Satanic Bible - Anton LaVey
7). To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8). Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi
9). Necronomicon - HP Lovecraft
10). The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury
11). Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
12). The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
13). October Country - Ray Bradbury
14). A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare

Okay, stopping for now... gotta do some work.

[FILMFREAK087]

The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells.

[Harry Lime]

I have no clue how many times I've read this book, maybe an infinite number of times, over and over and over...

http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww56/harrylime49/zarathustra.jpg

[Pawn]

Nice!

And a King fan to boot.

Currently I'm re-reading the Dark Tower series (I'm on The Wastelands right now).


Okay, stopping for now... gotta do some work.


Huge King fan. I'm waiting a few years before I read the DT Series again. The last book and Wizard in Glass (and Glass?) were really emotional reads for me.
:)
Have a good day!

[linespalsy]

off the top of my head woman in the dunes (abe), the box man (abe) and hamlet.

[n3wt]

http://www.monochrom.at/cracked/reviews/C_MMansonbook.jpg

I re-read this as im a big fan of his and this is the only book that I have re-read as im going through the discworld novels one by one :D

[tramp]

I've never read a book twice. :blush:

The only book I would even consider reading again is Lord of the Rings, which is my favorite book. Interestingly, my second favorite, Huckleberry Finn, isn't something I can see myself reading again.

I once had an English Professor ask me why I would watch films over and over but not read books over and over. He didn't understand.

Not sure I do, either, but I often feel that since I read the book once, that's enough. The only books I've looked at twice are books I needed to know for school (English courses.)

I like seeing the lists of books, though.

EDIT: I see people listing Shakespeare?! That seems different to me. I often have to read the play twice. :)

[Thursday Next]

Hmm, I used to re-read books all the time as a kid, now I find I hardly have time to read new ones once, let alone re-read older ones, so most of these will be teen favourites. But a few from the top of my head exclusing actual kids' books:

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Stockholm Syndrome - Richard Rider
Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Persuasion - Jane Austen
Obernewtyn - Isobelle Carmody
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Middlemarch - Geroge Eliot
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Day of the Triffids, The Chrysalids, Trouble with Lichen, The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

[Pawn]

I've never read a book twice. :blush:

I once had an English Professor ask me why I would watch films over and over but not read books over and over. He didn't understand.

Not sure I do, either, but I often feel that since I read the book once, that's enough. The only books I've looked at twice are books I needed to know for school (English courses.)


Reading a book is a huge time investment. A movie is a 2 hour stint--all the brain work being done for us-it's easy to sit and watch the same thing over again, especially if you liked it. It's like being spoon fed something delicious that you enjoy.
Reading a book requires patience, energy...although for me, reading is just a movie in my mind-easily just as delicious as watching a movie-just takes a lot longer.

[Pawn]

Thursday Next--I LOVE your list. Clan of the Cave Bear was sooooo exciting when I was a young girl. I have also read Interview with a Vampire three times. (I think it's the sex appeal)

[adidasss]

I've never read a book twice. :blush:



Yeah, me neither. I've only just recently (in the last few years) gotten into reading so I (feel like I) have too many books I need to read before I "waste time" on re-reading something I'm familiar with. But I don't really re-watch films either. Same reason as with books, I feel like there's just too much stuff out there I haven't yet experienced so I'm leaving all that for...I dunno, old age or something? Although my memory is really terrible so I could do it all now and it would probably be as if I'd never seen/read...it...*retard* :\

[Sir Toose]

Not sure I do, either, but I often feel that since I read the book once, that's enough. The only books I've looked at twice are books I needed to know for school (English courses.)


It's not that the books change... your perceptions do.

Reading Golding's Lord of the Flies at 16 is a far different experience than reading it at 40.

But you know that.

[TheDOMINATOR]

I've never been much of a reader--since about two months ago, that is. And now I read almost as often as I watch movies. Since that time(two or three months ago), I've read a couple of books twice already. 12 Angry Men the play I've read twice, and I've read Dante's The Divine Comedy like one and a half times; that's my favorite book by far and I just go back and read certain sections when I'm in the mood. He provides the most vivid details of his three unforgettable worlds (Purgatory, Paradise, and the Inferno) to perfection, and I like to go back and read his descriptions of Lucifer and God themselves; these passages send shivers down my spine each and every time I read them.

[honeykid]

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Little Women
Interview With The Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen Of The Damned
The Body Thief
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up

Various (auto)biographies, plays, books of poetry, true crime books, etc.

[zedlen]

Do teenagers read anything other then books about wizards and vampires these days ?

[Spikez]

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend
Saartje Tadema - Thea Beckman

Not much of a reader...

Greets
Spikez

[SoulInside]

1. Michael Crichton - Dino Park, Sphere, Eaters of the Dead
2. Douglas Coupland - Shampoo Planet, Generation X, Microslaves
3. John Grisham - The Firm, A Time to Kill, The Client, The Runaway Jury
3. T.C.Boyle - Samurai of Savannah, Water Music, Drop City
4. Michel Houellebecq - The Possibility of an Island, Platform, The Elementary Particles, Whatever (Bad Title, Original: Expansion of the Combat Zone)
5. Robert Westall - Living with Laura
6. Stephen King - Most of his novels and short-stories, especially
Dead Zone, The Stand, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
7. Wolfgang Hohlbein: Azrael
8. Robert Harris - Fatherland, Ghost
9. Terry Pratchett - Guards!Guards!, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man; Small Gods, Night Watch
10. David Benioff - 25 Hours
11. Ernest Hemingway - Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises

[Caitlyn]

Here's a few of the ones I've read more than once...


Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Wisdom of the Native Americans - Kent Nerburn
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Interview With a Vampire - Anne Rice
Jaws - Peter Benchley
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
A Time to Kill - John Grisham
The Crow - James O'Barr
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

[Pawn]

I need a pen and some paper! This thread is giving me some great suggestions

[Sir Toose]

Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

Love that book!

[Pawn]

I realized too that with some of the books I read more than once, I find myself skipping to certain parts--or rushing through the chapters to get to "the part".
Especially the intense 'romantic' bits...

[Miss Vicky]

Of Mice and Men
The Call of the Wild
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Second

Except for the last one, all of these are from childhood/teens. I almost never read a book even once anymore. I'd rather watch movies.

[rufnek]

Jeeze, I regularly reread classic mysteries, particularly Hammett, the best of the breed. I reread Twain alot, especially Huck Finn, which is the fundamental all-American novel. Hemingway, too. Several histories and biographies, mostly keyed to the American Revolution or the Civil War. And World War II--I've reread Ernie Pyle's books several times: gawd, he could write!!! Oh, Shakespeare, of course--one hell of a writer himself.

[Sir Toose]

That reminds me... I've read all of Raymond Chandler's books more than once.

[Pawn]

Oh, Shakespeare, of course--one hell of a writer himself.

I have read As You Like It a bunch, actually.

[mark f]

Here are a few:

Where the Wild Things Are
The Cat in the Hat
Green Eggs and Ham
Chato's Kitchen
The Pearl (Steinbeck)
Kidnapped (R. L. Stevenson)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)
The Maltese Falcon
The Exorcist
In Cold Blood
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
The Holy Bible (KJV)

[Pawn]

Green Eggs and Ham. Duh. I've read that a thousand times.

Books I read a couple times as a youngin'
The Giving Tree
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Anne of Green Gables
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
Oliver Twist
Charlotte's Web
Ramona The Brave

I could go on forever here...

[Thursday Next]

Thursday Next--I LOVE your list. Clan of the Cave Bear was sooooo exciting when I was a young girl. I have also read Interview with a Vampire three times. (I think it's the sex appeal)

I would not like to look too closely into how many of the books I re-read were because of the sex appeal... suffice it to say that this was all before I had the internet... ;)

Do teenagers read anything other then books about wizards and vampires these days ?

I think vampires and wizards appeal to kids in general, it's not just Potter and Twilight. They weren't around when I was a teen but I used to love Tamora Pierce's books, especially her Alanna series and Wild Magic. And Obernewtyn has to be the book I have read more than any other, ten times at least. And Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit of course. The Little Vampire series, Vlad the Drac (more for younger children), Anne Rice's vampire chronicles...

This thread reminds me that I really need to get working on my top 100 books list. I've only got 89 so far that I really love so I either need to read some more books or compile a list of eleven books that I quite liked to make up the numbers...

[no1mccoy]

I hardly hv patience with books, cause at a point I want to fast forward it but just can't do that. I dunno if its a bad thing say but I really don't read books, trying to cultivate a reading habit though. The last international novel I read wld be Oliver Twist and I read it more than twice

[rufnek]

Green Eggs and Ham. Duh. I've read that a thousand times.

Books I read a couple times as a youngin'
The Giving Tree
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Anne of Green Gables
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
Oliver Twist
Charlotte's Web
Ramona The Brave

I could go on forever here...

Do you read the original Peter Pan or the Disney version? Seems people tend more to read Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland than the original version of Peter Pan. If you're speaking of books read in your pre-teen years, it's more likely to be the Disney versions of both. Of course, you could be the exception. I'm just speaking generally.

[earlsmoviepicks]

I have read Brideshead Revisted many times. Cannot get enough of that one.

[christine]

Great thread. The book I've probably read the most times is Wuthering Heights. I've got an old orange Penguin edition my mum bought when she was young and I read that. I love that book.

Here's some I've read several times over the years, probably lots more but can't think at the mo

Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Oliver Twist - Dickens
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Stand - King
Dracula - Bram Stoker
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Thomas Hardy's books - Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbevilles, Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native.

the I. Robot collection of stories - Isaac Azimov
A Suitable Boy - Vickram Seth
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Cry The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Treasure Island - R.L. Stevenson
The French Lieutenants Woman - John Fowles
Her Benny - Hocking

I've read C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia books when I was little and also read them to both kids when they were young, that goes for the Green Knowe books by Lucy Boston too.

[Thursday Next]

Oh my, I don't think I could read Jude the Obscure more than once :(

[Fiscal]

http://www.luc.edu/law_library/books/images/breakfast.jpg

[Holden Pike]

Quite literally everything ever written by Kurt Vonnegut. Some of them as many as four or five times. And a whole bunch from other authors, including this highlight sampling...

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:SJ_3IypIIFa0oM:http://ahabsquest.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/catch22_cover.jpg CATCH-22, Joseph Heller

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:bghLwnXWPWxscM:http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/images/grendel.jpg GRENDEL, John Gardner

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:6iIjhV96Z8rwFM:http://78.46.108.98/images/book-covers/book-covers-62.jpg THE MUSIC OF CHANCE, Paul Auster

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:WNYYRqSyXRG4MM:http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/Resources/titles/15647100861390/Images/15647100861390L.gif READER'S BLOCK, David Markson

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:c_MGiwYr4LmS6M:http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/history-books/877-6.jpg A HISTORY OF THE WORLD in 10½ CHAPTERS, Julian Barnes

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:0RH3Z4RyFWy2aM:http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/0679732497.l.gif POP. 1280, Jim Thompson

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:olFfPYLVViookM:http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestselling-sci-fi-fantasy-2006/1034-1.jpg CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE, George Saunders

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:GFg1JOutFkzRnM:http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3d/09/ec9db340dca06a01739b6010.L.jpg DADDY'S BOY, Chris & Bob Elliott


And many other favorites, but I'll stop there for now.

[Juno MacGuff]

All the Chronicles Of Narnia books

Twilight Series

Harry Potter Series

[christine]

Oh my, I don't think I could read Jude the Obscure more than once :(

I know, but I'm a sucker for tragedy

[Brodinski]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
The Name of the Rose (Eco)
American Psycho (Easton Ellis)
Less Than Zero (Easton Ellis)
Glamorama (Easton Ellis)
1984 (Orwell)
Fight Club (Palahniuk)
The Complete Tales (Poe)
Ars Rhetorica (Aristotle)
Reading in the Dark (Deane)
Bright Lights, Big city (McInerney)

Not really a book, but a short story:
Bartleby, The Scrivener (Melville)

[rufnek]

I think I've read at least twice everything written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, Edgar Allen Poe, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christe, James Cain, Mickey Spillane, Ian Fleming, John MacDonald, Ross MacDonald, Ernie Pyle, James Fenmore Cooper, Jack London, Nevil Schute, William Shakespeare, and Mark Twain.

I've also read and reread an awful lot of the books by John le Carre, Dorothy Sayers, Graham Greene, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Wambaugh, Ed McBain also writing under Evan Hunter, Ernest Gant, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway. I've also read Gone With the Wind more than once.

[karibou]

Re-reading Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins for the umpteenth time. I think I'll use a few lines from this book in the "Famous Quotes" thread here. :)

[Darkrose]

Interview With The Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
Blood and Chocolate
Dreamland
Dante's Inferno
Hamlet
The Everything Dreams Book
The Rage
Odd Thomas

[Harry Lime]

I'm currently reading The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus for the second time.

[earlsmoviepicks]

I've read The Godfather so many times-- I can turn to any page and just start right in from there. Love that book, it's like an old friend.

[JohnQuigley]

I've read The Great Gatsby, King Solomon's Mines, To Kill A Mockingbird and 1984 many times.

[ChasingButterfly]

Ninteen Eighty-Four
High Fidelity
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Time Machine
The Great Gatsby
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Importance of Being Earnest
Downsize This
Things The Grandchildren Should Know

~Off the top of my head :D

[eMilee]

Flowers in the Attic and Heaven series, My Sweet Audrina by VC Andrews

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[Edenvegan]

The Bible

[Cries&Whispers]

Fiction: Vonnegut, Vonnegut, Vonnegut!! Short, sweet, and always great. Also, The Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, Song of Solomon, Ragtime, The Stranger

I read a lot more non-fiction, mainly on the subject of movies or art. These are ones that I highly recommend and refer back to all the time:

Ingmar Bergman's Persona, The Films of Ingmar Bergman
The Poetics of Space
Everything is Cinema
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Ozu: His Life and Films, Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, Scorsese Up Close
The Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut
Towards a New Architecture

Seriously, read any one of these books and I guarantee you will find the experience rewarding and appreciate film all the more for it.

[christine]

The ending of The Grapes of Wrath still brings a lump to my throat after many readings of the book over 30 years.

[planet news]

The pieta 'tis a beautiful image.

[planet news]

Ingmar Bergman's Persona, The Films of Ingmar Bergman
The Poetics of Space
Everything is Cinema
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Ozu: His Life and Films, Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, Scorsese Up Close
The Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut
Towards a New Architecture
WOW bro. THIS IS MY NEW READING LIST!!!!

I take it these were assigned for courses or something?

[Used Future]

Ham On Rye - Charles Bukowski
South of No North - Charles Bukowski
Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
The Outsider - Albert Camus
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Software; Wetware; Freeware & Realware - Rudy Rucker
Cronenberg on Cronenberg - Edited by Chris Rodley
Ask the Dust - John Fante
Wait Until Spring Bandini - John Fante
Generation X - Douglas Coupland
Hello America - JG Ballard
How To Talk Dirty and Influence People - Lenny Bruce
Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In - Joe Bob Briggs
Complete Prose - Woody Allen

[wintertriangles]

The usuals first, Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Kalevala, Grimm Fairy Tales

The ones I actually enjoy more than once, At The Mountains of Madness, Kill Bill Diary, The Alchemist, anything by Vonnegut, The Myth of Mental Illness, The Idiot, The Voice Imitator, Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, bunch of Nietzsche, History of Madness, TS Eliot poem collection, Haiku collection of Basho, Buson, and Issa, all the Greek tragedies, all of Aristophanes, Lolita, and of course The Bro Code

Those for study, the bible, the satanic bible, etc.

[Oktober]

I've read a lot of books more than once, but there are a few that I've read several times (often in different translations). These include: Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov & Crime and Punishment, Arthur Koestler's The Act of Creation, Milton's Paradise Lost (technically a narrative poem), Mysteries & Alien Dawn by Colin Wilson, Nihilists (a history of the Russian movement) by Ronald Kingsley & for some strange reason Patrick Tilley's Mission which I first read only a few years after it was first published.



http://www.patrick-tilley.com/mission/index.php

[akatemple]

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, they get so complex that by the time a new one comes out you have to reread the series from the beginning. They are great books so I don't mind at all.

I grew up reading Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators, so I have probably read them all quite a few times.

[mastermetal777]

It - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
The Millennium Trilogy - Stieg Larsson
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Bible
The Oath - Frank Peretti

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[linespalsy]

Roy Andrew Miller's A Japanese Reader: Graded Lessons for Mastering the Written Language
Samuel E. Martin's Essential Japanese: An Introduction to the Standard Colloquial Language
Yoko M. McClain's Handbook of Modern Japanese Grammar

I don't know how many times I've read these (not cover to cover, but cumulatively it must be dozens in the case of Martin). I spent five semesters translating the lessons in Miller's book (a very diverse collection of primary source readings first published in the 60s), and most of what I know about the Japanese language and culture come from those translations. That's where I first learned about the art of kamishibai from translating an old magazine article, for example.

I think I've read Hamlet 4 times now.
These others I've read twice.
Valis
Woman in the Dunes
The Box Man
Kangaroo Notebook
Tristram Shandy

[quint]

I don't have any clue how many books I've read more than once, but here are a few that have affected me in some way, be it intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, or maybe just because it was a darn good story.

Last of the Mohicans ~ James Fenimore Cooper

Robinson Crusoe ~ Daniel DeFoe

Lonesome Dove ~ Larry McMurtry

It ~ Stephen King

An Open Heart ~ His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

[Sir Toose]

I don't have any clue how many books I've read more than once...

Yeah, that.

I've found that even though I know what a book is about, or if I'm intimately familiar with the material within, I sometimes will re-read something and it will affect me in a completely different way because I've changed much since the last time I encountered it.

It's kind of like returning to one's hometown after many years. It's kind of how you remember it but a lot is different due to an altered perception of things.

Did that make sense?

[wintertriangles]

Yeah, that.

I've found that even though I know what a book is about, or if I'm intimately familiar with the material within, I sometimes will re-read something and it will affect me in a completely different way because I've changed much since the last time I encountered it.

It's kind of like returning to one's hometown after many years. It's kind of how you remember it but a lot is different due to an altered perception of things.

Did that make sense?All of my micro fiction and poetry books affect me that way. So far I can't think of anything longer that has done that.

[Gabrielle947]

I'm Lithuanian and we have this classic book - Forest Of The Gods.The movie is made too,but it's lame.
It's a memory book about man experiences in the concentration camp.It's full of sarcasm and satire about everyday life and violence there and it's amazing how a man living in this camp could write such things.I liked it because, unlike many this type books, this one took a satirical perspective of concentration camp and of all the horrible things happening there.There is one memorable part from the book,when on Christmas day,a Christmas tree was brought to the camp and chief of the camp decided to hang some people near it.And it is so nicely written how Christmas tree was standing and near it people hanging dead beautifully.It made me think how my life is good.Read it twice,will definitely read it again sometime.

[Mountaineer]

We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz. Written by Eddie Condon

[Yoda]

I've read Perelandra 2 or 3 times. Ditto for The Screwtape Letters. I've read The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity[/i] and The Abolition of Man and all of The Chronicles of Narnia twice.

I've read [u]Animal Farm something like 7 or 8 times, I think.

[earlsmoviepicks]

Brideshead Revisited and The Godfather - read many many times

[cuddlepie281289]

Most of the books in my collection are ones that i re-read over and over. These include:

*The Harry Potter series by J.K rowling
*Contest by Matthew Reiley
*I am The Messenger by Marcus Zusack
*The Tintin series
*Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton

I read books just like i watch a movie. I read the text and just see whats happening all in my imagination. I often tell friends that when i get home from Uni or something that i will be finishing watching my book. A good book can be better than a movie because when an author is writing a book they dont have to worry about how a scene will work or how much the wardrobe is going to cost. They just write their story :)

[The Prestige]

I've read the original Adrian Mole books quite a few times.

[cinemaafficionado]

The Godfather, Pappillon, Shantaram, Wanted: The Worlds Most Saught After Fugitives, Killing Pablo, Bin Laden : The Man Who Declared War On America, War In The Shadows, Shadow Warrior, MERC: American Soldiers Of Fortune, The Elite Forces Handbook Of Unarmed Combat, Far Behind Defensive Tactics, Endurance Techniques, The Art Of War -Sun Tsu, The Book Of Five Rings - Myamoto Musashi. Hagakure -The Book Of The Samurai, The Supreme Body Guard Manual, The Prince - Nicholo Machiavelli, The Borgias, The Encyclopedia Of Ssurvival Techniques, just to name a few, off the top of my head.

[gandalf26]

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[The Rodent]

More than once?
War Of The Worlds
Lord Of The Rings and Hobbit
Winter Moon (Dean Koontz)
Jurassic Park

Most awesome book ever concieved: Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke.

That's about it. Most I read once then leave forever to gather dust until they inevitably end up in a charity-shop.

[hownos]

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

[pahaK]

I haven't kept tabs on my reading but at least the following:

The Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, and Silmarillion by Tolkien
The Name of the Rose by Eco
2001, 2010, 2061, and 3001 by Clarke (possibly some other, too)
Mythago Wood by Holdstock
Books of Blood 1-3, and Hellbound Heart by Barker
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
Carrie and Pet Sematary by King (I know I started reading IT when I was a kid, but I don't remember if I finished it back then)

Also a large portion of works by Weird Tales writers Lovecraft and Howard (and a much smaller portion by Smith); and at least the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire by Martin (maybe even the first two, but weirdly enough, I bailed in the middle of book four and haven't started the 5th); some Elric books by Moorcock (I don't remember how many were translated to Finnish when I was a kid).

I'm probably forgetting something, but these are the first that come to mind.

[WHITBISSELL!]

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[Hey Fredrick]

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[Torgo]

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The first director I became really obsessed with. It's an all-around fascinating and funny read. I could read it another time.

[I_Wear_Pants]

I think I've reread Harry Potter and the first three Redwall books. I can't think of any others. I don't typically reread books vis it takes me forever to read it the first time.

[matt72582]

"Heartland" (Mort Sahl)
"Last Man Standing" (James Curtis)
"Cassavetes On Cassavetes" (Cassavetes, Carney)
"The Trials of Jimmy Hoffa: An Autobiography" (Hoffa)
"Jim Morrison: Friends Gathered Together" (Lisciandro)
"Love All the People: The Essential Bill Hicks" (Hicks)
"Songs My Mother Taught Me" (Brando)