How many books have you read more than once?

[Beer Can Chicken]

Off the top of my head:

One Hundred Years of Solitude - GGM
Love in the Time of Cholera - GGM
High Fidelity - Hornby
The Stranger - Camus
The Sun Also Rises - Hemmingway
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Autobiography of Malcom X - Haley/X
Boss - Royko

[BoysMom3]

I can only think of 2. To Kill A Mockingbird and the Bible.

[TeeDeeGee]

I've read The Stand probably 3 times, the last was for a class I took first semester.
I'll probably never read it again after that shit.

PS: It used to be my favorite book, too. Thanks Professor Hall. :jagoff:

[CaptainBallz]

Catcher in the Rye
Hamlet
Brave New World

[weebs1818]

I've only read half of the bible- the Jewish half

[TeeDeeGee]

I've only read half of the bible- the Jewish half

The second half is pretty sweet.
There's this Jesus guy that kicks all kinds of ass.

[TeeDeeGee]

The Old Testament is so much better.

Reba, Am I wrong?

No, you're right.

I'm just sayin' they each have their merits.

[weebs1818]

The Old Testament is sexy

[CaptainBallz]

I've only read half of the bible- the Jewish half

god's a real bastard in that part..

he becomes a bit of a bitch in the sequel...

[TeeDeeGee]

god's a real bastard in that part..

he becomes a bit of a bitch in the sequel...

That's what fatherhood does to ya.

[Fieldsfan27]

The Old Testament is sexy


:helloexactly:

[weebs1818]

Quite. I read some OT yesterday, right?

Oui.

Fact: Sex is a mitzvah. Dan Mega can back me up on this one, I'm sure. ;)

[TeeDeeGee]

The New Testament is like a fucking Disney movie whereas the Old Testament is like Rambo or Die Hard, etc.

uhhh, Revelations anyone?

[Beer Can Chicken]

i need some mitzvah

[Fieldsfan27]

:rolling: i need some mitzvah

[Spider_Pig]

Harry Potter 1-6 (Will reread 7 again probably soon, just cause)
To Kill a Mockingbird

That's all I can think of right now anyways.

[TeeDeeGee]

I'm gonna read Choke before the movie comes out next year so that'll be my first. It would be four years from book to movie otherwise. Of course it's my favorite novel.

I should probably finish it before the movie...

[maurice]

The Old Testament is sexy

QFT. Lots of interesting stuff, like chicks getting their old man drunk so they can have sex with him, a father offering his daughters to a band of rapists, a king having somebody killed so that he can sleep with his wife, interesting rules about rape victims and adultery, etc.

Makes modern soap operas look tame, even the stuff on Telemundo.

[SFS04]

Off the top of my head:

One Hundred Years of Solitude - GGM
Love in the Time of Cholera - GGM
High Fidelity - Hornby
The Stranger - Camus
The Sun Also Rises - Hemmingway
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Autobiography of Malcom X - Haley/X
Boss - Royko

I've been meaning to read teh first two and the last one.

I've also read High Fidelity and Great Gatsby a few times.

As well as american pharaoh, Tender is the Night, To Kill A Mockingbird ( at least five times and I get more meaning and emotion each time, I think it is truly the most loving work of fiction I've ever read) to name a few.

I very much enjoy re-reading books, I think you get more out of them, if they are good at least.

[BoysMom3]

I might have read The Catcher In The Rye twice too. Funny stuff.

Karin - there was a house in Frankfort that my friends and I called Boo Radley's house when we were in h.s. We used to scare ourselves driving by it - IIRC, it's pretty close to the FrankfortFest. (I went to Lincoln-Way, grew up in Manhattan.) But yeah, really good book. I read it the second time when ThomeFan was in jr. high and had to read it for class. I thought it was fun to read it at the same time and discuss.

[maurice]

Now that I think of it, these Bible stories are inappropriate for 9-year-old children and also degrading to women. Therefore, it is inappropriate to discuss the Bible on teh interwebs.

[getonbckthr]

Zero

[TeeDeeGee]

I read that very passage to her Sunday morning.

I love the Old Testament. It's fucking awesome.

The image of this is absolutely blowing my fucking mind. :omg:
I'm surprised Chips can even touch a bible.

[fquaye14ten]

any books worth reading i've read more than once

in terms of novels i've read the most (upwards of 10 times):

less than zero--bret easton ellis
the sun also rises--ernest hemingway
all the kings' men--robert penn warren
miss lonelyhearts--nathanael west
ham on rye--charles bukowski

[SFS04]

The image of this is absolutely blowing my fucking mind. :omg:
I'm surprised Chips can even touch a bible.

Chips has read it many times, he really likes the Bible and Jesus.

[TeeDeeGee]

Chips has read it many times, he really likes the Bible and Jesus.

I thought The Necronomicon would be more suited to his tastes...:thinking:

[Iwritecode]

Off the top of my head:

The Stand
Christine
Desperation
Hearts in Atlantis
Bag of Bones
All 7 Dark Tower books
Insomnia
Eyes of the Dragon

[TeeDeeGee]

Off the top of my head:

The Stand
Christine
Desperation
Hearts in Atlantis
Bag of Bones
All 7 Dark Tower books
Insomnia
Eyes of the Dragon

Does Roland bend over and pick up the damn horn the second time through?

[Iwritecode]

Does Roland bend over and pick up the damn horn the second time through?

Amazingly, no.

[TeeDeeGee]

Amazingly, no.

ka-mai. :rolleyes:

:D

[JohnBasedowYoda]

Never read a novel twice, I can't see the point. I've read parts of non-fiction books twice, but never the whole thing.


Getting back to the matter at hand it's like seeing a movie a second time. You pick up on shit you missed and maybe make some connections that weren't realized the 1st time through.


Books I've read at least twice:

-1984
-Maniac McGee (when I was a kid)
-On the Road
-The Shinning
-your mom's cunt

[JohnBasedowYoda]

There's some other childhood shit I've read more than once but I don't remember or care.


Has anyone read The Sun also Rises or A Farewell to Arms?
I read For Whom The Bell Tolls and liked that.

[JohnBasedowYoda]

^Johnny Crappleseed

[Prope]

Catcher in the Rye
Among the Thugs

[The Racehorse]

Catcher in the Wry [Bob Uecker's book]
The Wrong Stuff [Bill Spaceman Lee's book]
Fast Food Nation
most of the Henry Rollins catalogue