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malthaussen

(17,065 posts)
45. Really too numerous to name.
Sat May 6, 2017, 09:33 AM
May 2017

If a book is part of a live series, then I will typically re-read the whole series whenever I get the next volume. This can go on for an inordinate number of years. It is often amusing to watch authors struggle with continuity and the passage of time when a series has been live for decades.

If a book is part of a series, but the author dead or moved on to a new character, I often begin re-reads of the series at the beginning and plough through the whole thing, good or not-so-good. John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series is an example of this, although I started reading them before John had gone to his reward. George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series is another of this nature -- what is it with these MacDonalds?

Let's see, in addition to the previously-named, authors of fiction whom I re-read include Heinlein, Zelazny, Farmer, Glen Cook, and Niven/Pournelle (best as a tandem, IMO) in sci fi; Tolkien and G. G. Kay in fantasy; Stephenson for Necronomicon and The Baroque Cycle, which I typically read every year; Ellis Peters for Brother Cadfael; Evanovich and Grafton for more-or-less contemporary 'tecs. Then there's Heller for Catch-22 and John M. Del Veccio for The 13th Valley.

This would constitute a very partial list of my multiple re-reads. Books I have only read twice would be too numerous to mention. If I like a book at all, I generally read it at least twice. Those things are expensive!

-- Mal

... 2naSalit May 2017 #1
Yes, there are many I've revisited PJMcK May 2017 #2
I love Michener's books. Dulcinea May 2017 #44
This message was self-deleted by its author Crash2Parties May 2017 #223
The Poldark series. spooky3 May 2017 #3
+1 treestar May 2017 #112
Especially if you read them in BlueMTexpat May 2017 #173
Of Human Bondage. W. Somerset Maugham's trc May 2017 #4
When I first read "Of Human Bondage" I was really into it womanofthehills May 2017 #97
Beat me to it, and I might add Brainstormy May 2017 #170
All of the books I have read are real. OilemFirchen May 2017 #5
On the other hand, there is a fictional book I've written several times jberryhill May 2017 #11
Yeah, me too. OilemFirchen May 2017 #17
"Time and Again" ... NanceGreggs May 2017 #6
"Time And Again" PJMcK May 2017 #56
Yes!!! NanceGreggs May 2017 #70
Yes! Fabulous book. SeattleVet May 2017 #86
I never got past ... NanceGreggs May 2017 #90
IIRC, it did pick up a bit... SeattleVet May 2017 #92
OMG!! "Time and Again!!" Let me explain: DFW May 2017 #136
WOW!!! NanceGreggs May 2017 #166
Time and Again... Mike Nelson May 2017 #226
Earth Abides. A Canticle for Leibowitz. The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings. Handmaids Tale. ... Binkie The Clown May 2017 #7
Love "Earth Abides" and "Canticle." nt tblue37 May 2017 #55
Yes! Horatio Hornblower, and the Bolitho series. PatrickforO May 2017 #154
Earth Abides holds up after nearly 70 years spiderpig May 2017 #168
Junky by William S. Burroughs. Jno_Gilmor_ May 2017 #8
Michener got me started. madamesilverspurs May 2017 #9
If you like Wouk, don't forget "The Caine Mutiny" Grins May 2017 #128
The Source is BlueMTexpat May 2017 #195
Decameron. i found a 1920's edition at an estate sale. pansypoo53219 May 2017 #10
"Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury Number9Dream May 2017 #12
Yes TuxedoKat May 2017 #20
Yes, Spring is a great time to read it. Number9Dream May 2017 #72
I love this. Read it when I was a kid. My favorite of his was The Illustrated Man, ever read that? JudyM May 2017 #74
Yes, and the movie is pretty good too. Number9Dream May 2017 #82
The thing about Bradbury exboyfil May 2017 #58
Yes Indeed!!! TuxedoKat May 2017 #73
Pillar of Fire ChazInAz May 2017 #148
Thanks!!! TuxedoKat May 2017 #158
Monkey Wrench Gang Mendocino May 2017 #13
A couple of series I've reread several times Saviolo May 2017 #14
I love Jasper Fford! Thursday Next is a great character yellowdogintexas May 2017 #110
I also can't wait for the next book in his Shades of Grey series Saviolo May 2017 #122
Love Thursday nt trocar May 2017 #171
My Wife and I love Jasper Fforde genxlib May 2017 #176
There are supposedly forthcoming novels in both Thursday Next and Shades of Grey Saviolo May 2017 #181
1984 - every few years. Although these days I'm not sure spiderpig May 2017 #15
So far, never OriginalGeek May 2017 #16
Reading Books again. wcollar May 2017 #183
The Handmaid's Tale musette_sf May 2017 #18
I'm reading Handmaids Tale for second time now too womanofthehills May 2017 #98
The Stand three times. Floyd R. Turbo May 2017 #19
I've read The Stand 5 times. Callmecrazy May 2017 #88
👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo May 2017 #89
Oh, yes! The Stand. PatrickforO May 2017 #155
Me too, at least 5 stopwastingmymoney May 2017 #188
Thank you for posting... I've read The Stand so many times GreenEyedLefty May 2017 #215
Shibumi by Trevanian DFW May 2017 #21
Do you like Trevanian's other works? FSogol May 2017 #23
I thought The Main was a nice departure from the rest DFW May 2017 #24
I've read Catch-22 over 20 times. FSogol May 2017 #22
Time to reveal how obsessive compulsive one can be PufPuf23 May 2017 #25
Several... Docreed2003 May 2017 #26
You would probably like "Go Set a Watchman" womanofthehills May 2017 #99
I've got a copy...haven't brought myself to read it yet Docreed2003 May 2017 #101
Diana Gabaldon GP6971 May 2017 #27
I'm on my fifth re-reading chervilant May 2017 #149
That was going to be my response AwakeAtLast May 2017 #217
Island by Huxley wasupaloopa May 2017 #28
_One Hundred Years of Solitude_, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; tblue37 May 2017 #29
Yes. Shogun. The Stand. Raster May 2017 #30
Both are on my list, too. n/t sl8 May 2017 #48
Shogun, 5-6 times. I get immersed into that world every time. SharonAnn May 2017 #115
Same here... absolutely love the world Clavell creates... Raster May 2017 #117
Hai, wakarimas ka. n/t Smickey May 2017 #185
Clavell is an excellent author. Throck May 2017 #228
Just a grammar point - a 'fictional book' is one that doesn't exist. 'A book of fiction?' :) (n/t) FreepFryer May 2017 #31
"A Book of Fiction" Didn't Scan Well Leith May 2017 #38
Try "Fiction Book" rock May 2017 #53
I often would re-read "The Books of Bokonon", ... JustABozoOnThisBus May 2017 #43
I cherish my signed first edition of Goldstein's "Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" FreepFryer May 2017 #66
I have been a re-reader all my life. There are many. 3catwoman3 May 2017 #32
Well said stopwastingmymoney May 2017 #191
Thank you... 3catwoman3 May 2017 #194
I've read "Emma" by Jane Austen at least a dozen times. Coventina May 2017 #33
Nothing Wrong with That! Leith May 2017 #39
The Traveler's Gift DaleFromWPB May 2017 #34
I LOVE HARRY POTTER. trueblue2007 May 2017 #35
I've read it four times. Borchkins May 2017 #78
also guilty dembotoz May 2017 #85
I read them for myself, then read all the books to my first grandson starting at about age 5. Hekate May 2017 #124
Lord of the Rings... Wounded Bear May 2017 #36
Me too shenmue May 2017 #50
Childhood's End, The City And the Stars, lastlib May 2017 #37
Very, very seldom have I read a work of fiction twice. eppur_se_muova May 2017 #40
I'm the opposite - Most of the fiction I read, I will read twice or sometimes more womanofthehills May 2017 #100
I don't read like I used to, but everything by Jane Austen and numerous favorites by - Dick Francis. Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #41
Right? stopwastingmymoney May 2017 #192
I used to curl up with a book every night Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #196
All of Agatha Christie. WinkyDink May 2017 #42
Really too numerous to name. malthaussen May 2017 #45
Yes, as an avid reader for too many years to count Homer Wells May 2017 #46
Slaughter-House Five. NNadir May 2017 #47
strange, Leith Skittles May 2017 #49
Flashman Series JDC May 2017 #51
A Confederacy of Dunces... SeattleVet May 2017 #52
Me too re: Dunces. Such an amazing piece of fiction and Ignatius is a remarkable character. LonePirate May 2017 #76
The first time I read it I was living in Queens and working in lower Manhattan. SeattleVet May 2017 #87
Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite! progressoid May 2017 #162
Confederacy of Dunces, Me too emulatorloo May 2017 #201
I've reread many books. TDale313 May 2017 #54
Most of Raymond Chandler's works Miles Archer May 2017 #57
Yrs ago, I was really into Richard Brautigan and was always rereading his books womanofthehills May 2017 #103
Another English major, and a huge Raymond Chandler fan emulatorloo May 2017 #203
Heinlein and Tolkein Thomas Hurt May 2017 #59
Excellent Thread ... I'll Have to Read Some of These. Here's my partial list: KPN May 2017 #60
Several The Blue Flower May 2017 #61
Good answer! Fritz Walter May 2017 #180
Fact-based fiction: In Cold Blood (Truman Capote) and A Fan's Notes (Frederick Exley)... VOX May 2017 #62
Two books both by Kurt Vonnegut Victor_c3 May 2017 #63
'Libraries' downrange - wow roscoeroscoe May 2017 #151
Several times over Hula Popper May 2017 #64
"Goosebumps: The Horror at Camp Jellyjam" Jamaal510 May 2017 #65
For me....... mrmpa May 2017 #67
For those who liked "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart left-of-center2012 May 2017 #68
Also enjoyed 'Alas, Babylon'! lastlib May 2017 #96
I was thinking of "Alas, Babylon" recently. Also "No Other Man" - 1950's? post nuclear world SharonAnn May 2017 #116
"No Other Man" left-of-center2012 May 2017 #120
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, On the Beach by Neville Shute irisblue May 2017 #69
We reread Nevil Shute both my husband and I. TNNurse May 2017 #135
The Discworld books Nac Mac Feegle May 2017 #71
Catch 22 Marthe48 May 2017 #75
My sister had a bad joke about Euell Gibbons LeftInTX May 2017 #113
I heard something similar about Twiggy Marthe48 May 2017 #140
The Legacy of Herot CanonRay May 2017 #77
No one has mentioned gibraltar72 May 2017 #79
"The Stand" Va Lefty May 2017 #80
Hrolf Kraki's Saga by Poul Anderson Wolf Frankula May 2017 #81
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Worktodo May 2017 #83
Hobbit/Lord of the rings MFM008 May 2017 #84
most books by Michael Crichton yuiyoshida May 2017 #91
He was a serious climate denier genxlib May 2017 #174
never read it... yuiyoshida May 2017 #179
My to-read queue is intimidating enough Codeine May 2017 #93
"The Butterfly Kid"...Chester Anderson (1967) sci-fi Tikki May 2017 #94
I love Dune by Frank Herbert, area51 May 2017 #95
Ah, Dune. Probably my favorite of the genre. Raster May 2017 #118
The US Constitution! Chasstev365 May 2017 #102
Master and Commander... NeoGreen May 2017 #104
Many. LisaM May 2017 #105
So many I've reread... but there are several neeksgeek May 2017 #106
Yes. Zelazny. I had forgotten the Chronicles of Amber. PatrickforO May 2017 #156
Jack Vance: Planet of Adventure aka-chmeee May 2017 #107
"Catcher in the Rye". bif May 2017 #108
Harry Potter series. we can do it May 2017 #109
oh yeah, I've read all of them at least once, and some several times... Raster May 2017 #119
I'm not normally one to re read a book but there are a few that I have to yellowdogintexas May 2017 #111
Thanks to Everyone Leith May 2017 #114
One I haven't seen mentioned - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. lark May 2017 #121
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Disappointed Me Leith May 2017 #125
Dang, I haven't re-read this in decades and couldn't remember lark May 2017 #130
"Sometimes a Great Notion" Thunderbeast May 2017 #139
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test They_Live May 2017 #144
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I've lost count of how many times I've read them... Hekate May 2017 #123
Terry Pratchett wcollar May 2017 #184
I'm rereading them now pscot May 2017 #210
Went looking for a particular quote for a thank you note, and am now rereading Thief of Time... Hekate May 2017 #211
That was the first pscot May 2017 #216
The Increasingly, Inaccurately Named Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy TlalocW May 2017 #126
The Crucible, among others. Grins May 2017 #127
Bloodline - Sidney Sheldon TheDebbieDee May 2017 #129
Dune - Frank Herbert sdfernando May 2017 #131
The Stand murielm99 May 2017 #132
Princess Bride... yuiyoshida May 2017 #133
Shibumi by Rodney Whitaker ("Trevanian"), Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow, and even the one I wrote DFW May 2017 #134
I'm re-reading The Time Cellar right now! vademocrat May 2017 #199
Hey, thanks for the positive review! DFW May 2017 #202
And thank you for such a fun read! vademocrat May 2017 #207
I wasn't planning to write a sequel, so I had to infer the Thai visit another way DFW May 2017 #208
Jane Eyre most TNNurse May 2017 #137
"Another Roadside Attraction" Thunderbeast May 2017 #138
My favorites too - every sentence of Tom Robbins is a creative word salad womanofthehills May 2017 #186
The Great Gatsby maddiemom May 2017 #141
I read Dune every three or four years. Nt hack89 May 2017 #142
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" "Satanic Verses" "100 Years of Solitude" alfredo May 2017 #143
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan MojoWrkn May 2017 #145
Elfstones of Shannara. Volaris May 2017 #146
Nice ... I read all three of the original Shannara's multiple times by the time I was 15 ... mr_lebowski May 2017 #218
Read the rest if you havent. Volaris May 2017 #221
To the Lighthouse. A River Sutra. Cassidy May 2017 #147
The Golden Ass trusty elf May 2017 #150
Mars Trilogy roscoeroscoe May 2017 #152
Yes, several. PatrickforO May 2017 #153
War and Peace joshdawg May 2017 #157
Irving - Garp, Cider House, Owen Meany, Water Method Man...King - Duma Key NRaleighLiberal May 2017 #159
I'm so glad to be able to enjoy good books again Hortensis May 2017 #160
I loved those two books radical noodle May 2017 #167
I re read Isaac Asimov The Polack MSgt May 2017 #161
HP Lovecraft flying rabbit May 2017 #163
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin ornotna May 2017 #164
"Good Omens", "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, Clive Barker's "Cabal", among others... Rhythm May 2017 #165
The Once and Future King (T.H. White); Go Tell It On the Mountain (Baldwin); ancianita May 2017 #169
Stephen King-The Dark Tower series. Doreen May 2017 #172
Good thread Alpeduez21 May 2017 #175
I reread all the time iamateacher May 2017 #177
"The Little Friend" by Donna Tartt. Laffy Kat May 2017 #178
I need to read that - I really liked Tartt's "The Goldfinch" womanofthehills May 2017 #187
I liked it, too, but don't really want to re-read it. Laffy Kat May 2017 #189
Three that changed my thinking LiberalLovinLug May 2017 #182
Oh, my. So many to read, and so many to reread. Stonepounder May 2017 #190
I love this thread stopwastingmymoney May 2017 #193
Keep the Aspadistra Flying by George Orwell Shoonra May 2017 #197
"Trinity" by Leon Uris (A Novel of Ireland) Boomerproud May 2017 #198
I've always been a re-reader - it's like visiting an old friend vademocrat May 2017 #200
Hawaii every 10 years but "Coming Through Slaughter" more often. elehhhhna May 2017 #204
There is one I forgot: The Far Arena by Richard Sapir DFW May 2017 #205
Time Enough for Love BigOleDummy May 2017 #206
Time Enough For Love is a piece of crap Fortinbras Armstrong May 2017 #213
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson pscot May 2017 #209
Personally, I love Dickens LakeArenal May 2017 #212
I regularly re-read Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan novels Fortinbras Armstrong May 2017 #214
On The Road & The Dharma Bums ... mr_lebowski May 2017 #219
I think.. cannabis_flower May 2017 #220
Don't read much fiction anymore dem in texas May 2017 #222
Read Earth Abides...and then The Stand, back to back. Crash2Parties May 2017 #224
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson. BigmanPigman May 2017 #225
1984 Afromania May 2017 #227
Great reading... Mike Nelson May 2017 #229
Any Tolkien... airmid May 2017 #230
Moby Dick, Cannery Row, Tolkien, The Stand, Mote in God's Eye. denbot May 2017 #231
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