The Chronicles of Narnia A Swiftly Tilting Planet A Song of Ice and Fire Coraline and recent addition Jonathan Strange & Mr. NorrellPosts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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I just picked up Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell in hardback on the discount rack for $4.98. I'm looking forward to reading it!
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quote:A book is not on my favorite list until I've read it two or three times.
I so agree! I get most of my books from the library, and only buy them if I know I'm going to want to read them more than once.
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I re-read everything I finish. That's where the books really go through the wringer... I mean, I know what to expect, and so it gets harder and harder not to get analytical with each re-read, noticing things, resenting the little 'tricks' the authors use. But yeah, I don't consider it a favorite until I re-read it... I re-read author's, not individual books, too. So, pretty much anything by Zelazny, Lindskold, or Card, I'll definently re-read. Those are the ones who, time and time again, even after noticing their flaws, their mistakes, their 'tricks', I *still* love their books.
Also, I read the 'Newberry Gold Winners' (Or silver, if it's good enough. <Wink>) over and over again. They're children's books, but I love them. They're so good, and they have the benefit of nostalgia. I think 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond' and 'Calico Bush' are the ones I read the most.
I don't know if it's a Newberry winner, but I usually find myself re-reading 'Where the Red Fern Grows'... Most of the time I stop right after he wins the contest. I cry everytime, to this day, if I finish it.
PS: A Newberry Honor book is a special way of honoring a children's book... We (my family) bought a collection of 'Newberry' books, the subject matter of the books ranging from a wide variety of topics and historical periods, and those are the first 'real' books I read. It's the John Neberry Medal. I think that's the official name.
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quote:I think the Silmarillion has one of the best colletions of stories in all of literature.
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UN-read-able.
I can't fathom that, I usually read it in a single sitting. It's gripping!
Even though I love it now, I CAN fathom it being un-readable. When I was in middle school, my brother (5 years my senior) waxed eloquent of the stories in the Silmarillion, particularly the segment depicting Fingolfin's duel with Morgoth, and so I decided to give it a shot...
I couldn't get past the first five pages. It reads like the Old Testament, at least at the beginning.
Anyway, no offense to Icarus intended, it was a good four years before I took another crack at the Silmarillion, and it paid off. As a budding musician, I was intrigued by the use of musical allegory as a quasi-history of Middle Earth, and many of the stories resonated more deeply with me. Nevertheless, it took a high level of perserverence to wade through some of the more arcane turns of phrase that Tolkein used.
I wouldn't call it UN-readable...just...difficult to read. But well worth it!
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There are few books that I ever want to reread. Among those that I do, OSC seems to top the list. Something about his work that I can reread and reread and not get bored.
Ender's Game Worthing Treason (the two above at least yearly) Lost Boys Maps in a Mirror
Stephen King has several anthologies of short stories that I like to go through and reread, catch the stories I didn't before.
I was a big fan of Guns of the South but never reread that book. Maybe I should.
And of course, the entire NARNIA series. I reread the series every few years.
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quote:Originally posted by stihl1: There are few books that I ever want to reread. Among those that I do, OSC seems to top the list. Something about his work that I can reread and reread and not get bored.
Ender's Game Worthing Treason (the two above at least yearly) Lost Boys Maps in a Mirror
Stephen King has several anthologies of short stories that I like to go through and reread, catch the stories I didn't before.
I was a big fan of Guns of the South but never reread that book. Maybe I should.
And of course, the entire NARNIA series. I reread the series every few years.
How could I have forgotten Worthing Saga?!?
Lyrhawn, that is HIGH on the list of great Card. Read it!
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I want to add: The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore. I was never a big fan of the D&D books, but that trilogy was soooooo good.
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When I pick up a good Asimov (particularly the Robot and Foundation series) I can't put them down, never mind how many times I've read them before.
I also tend to re-read Card's books.
The Lord of the Rings is a natural.
There's a bunch of rather random ones as well: various YA authors (Diana Wynne Jones, William Sleator, etc), a couple of the C.S. Lewis books (particularly Mere Christianity, and Screwtape Letters).
I don't re-read books as often as I used to. But I still catch myself doing it every once in awhile.
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