Books you have read. And read again

More seriously...

and

I have just re-read Excession and Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks, and I am about to start reading Julian May's Saga of the Pliocene Exiles and Galactic Millieu trillogy.

I am also working my way through Terry Pratchett again as well as O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin series.

Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Waterland, Graham Swift

Almost all Graham Greene.

Any Human Heart, William Boyd

Not necessarily my favourite books, but ones I can re-read frequently with pleasure.

Sad though it seems to admit, I re-read all the Banks SF novels all the time, especially when travelling.

Also Neil Gaiman's books and especially the complete series of the Sandman graphic novels.

Where I live you need to escape from reality

Jeeves and Wooster (any volume) - Wodehouse
Lords of the Rings - Tolkien
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
Wheel of time series - Robert Jordan.

Reading a book by someone does not mean you align yourself with their views.

I read Mein Kampf when I was younger even though I had a vehement dislike of AH world view.

I also enjoy a nice bit of Wagner but again don't agree with his world view.

Anyway as to my favourite books (oh so many)
Fiction
LOTR - like most people I read this almost annually for many years. (I did say annually)

Das glassenspiel - Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf, Siddharta and Journey to the East by HH.

The Chymical Wedding - Lindsay Clarke
Ilywhacker - Peter Carey
2001 - AC Clarke
Foundation Trilogy - I Asimov
Dune -Frank Herbet
Anything by Robert Silverberg

Non-Fiction
Physics and Philosophy by W. Heisenberg
Anything by David Bohm
Beyond Measure - Jim Baggott
End of Time - Julian Barbour
Quantum Reality - Nick Herbert

The Paradox of God - C Pickover
The God Delusion - R. Dawkins (yes its a polemic.)


So many others!!

I had to re read Stephen Donaldson's "Runes of the Earth" before reading "Fatal Revenant" due to the three year gap between the publication of the books. I will have to go through the same process when the third installment "Against All Things Ending" is published in 2010 and again in 2013 when the final installment "The Last Dark" finally arrives.

I do wish Donaldson would get a wriggle on!!

Rob

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy all 5 of the trilogy, get re-read with alarming regularity. I usually find some thing I missed previously.

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy all 5 of the trilogy, get re-read with alarming regularity. I usually find some thing I missed previously.

And another thing...?

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Friend of Bill, eh Chris

You too John? Brilliant isn't it? There are a few of us on here! If I can start generating an income again a trip to Oakland would be high on the holiday list! Would love to meet you and hear your system.

Wuthering Heights - probably needs to be read several times to fully appreciate.

Cheers

Don

"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey" by Chuck Palahniuk
Fascinating, convoluted, got lost and re read immediately.

Big up the Iain M Banks. Use of Weapons is my favourite and due a re-read. I must admit to reading Dawkins more than once.

Ha! Oh yes, been through that one more than a few times myself!!!!

And those bloody fairy books. Are there really that many, or is just the same one recycled with different coloured covers? They certainly don't vary much in 'plot'...

Best Bets, eight times on Saturday.

Apart from that, Antony Beevor's excellent accounts of Stalingrad 1941-43 and Berlin 1945. Planning to get hold of his history of the Spanish civil war soon.

I'm beginning to feel ashamed of my lack of reading, but I dearly love old movies. And in 90 minutes I can get thru a classic...

Unless it's and epic.

I've just heard a friend advise me to get El Cid on DVD at Netflicks, I've never seen it. Then the serious tone of the afternoon lunch conversation went to the funniest Mel Brooks films, complete with scene set up and quotes repeated by 65 and 89 year olds.

Also have to see the original Bird Cage from France.

too funny.

I had a 9th grade teacher have us read Dickens in Philly in '68 or so, forgot the title, Old woman, Mr Pumblechook, and we had to read parts and act them out in front of the class. How embarrassing, but served me well later on.

I've seen numerous British versions on PBS of his big ones. Great acting.

Almost anything by Haruki Murakami but especially;

Hard boiled Wonderland and the end of the World
Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-up bird Chronicle

I was first told of his writing some years ago by my brother and I've never looked back.
I just love the style of running (at least) two stories in parallel only to have them crash into each other by the end.
As the reader we can usually see the crash comming but never the outcome -modern classics.

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Apart from that, Antony Beevor's excellent accounts of Stalingrad 1941-43 and Berlin 1945.

Reading Berlin now Bazz...excellent. On par with Lawrence Lees books...The Nazi's bears repeated reading.

Dennis Wheatley's Roger Brook stories. They have been long out of print here in Sweden, but a year or so ago I found a stash at a small town library.

Robert Heinlein. Anything except where Lazarus Long is present.

Enid Blyton. When I was younger.

JohanR

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Originally posted by Howlinhounddog:
Almost anything by Haruki Murakami but especially;

Hard boiled Wonderland and the end of the World
Kafka on the Shore
The Wind-up bird Chronicle

I was first told of his writing some years ago by my brother and I've never looked back.
I just love the style of running (at least) two stories in parallel only to have them crash into each other by the end.
As the reader we can usually see the crash comming but never the outcome -modern classics.

I'm just about to complete my PhD on Haruki Murakami!

The manual that came with my DVD recorder. Still can't make it work.