Books you read, and reread again and again

[Levo-Lon]

It only works for certain styles of films. For example my fave film is Pulp Fiction. Watched it several times and watched it again a few nights ago. It's complicated with nuanced dialogue so there is always new stuff I hadn't noticed before

Books I've re-read:

A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe

Barbarians At The Gate by Helyar & Burrough

pulp fiction and shawshank..ive watched many times..i couldnt read the books

 

[steveindenmark]

Any of Peter Moores books. I am always going back to them.

 

[grumpyoldwoman]

The Stonewylde series by Kit Berry.
It's about a Pagan community set in a private estate in Devon.

Seeking the Green and Staying on the old track by Tylluan Penry

Earth Children's series by Jean M Auel


And many others,too numerous to mention!

 

[Venod]

and many books and films are about the journey not the destination

As is life.
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Riotous Assembley - Tom Sharpe

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (I may have to read it again)

Papillon - Henri Charriere

Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson.
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[LonesomeWanderer]

At university one book that I read and re-read and then returned to it at the start of my teaching career was

Engineering Mathematics by K.A. Stroud. It was a better teacher of pure and applied mathematics than any of the maths lecturers that I sat in front of and it rescued me more than a few times when teaching applied differential equations when I started teaching A - level mathematics.

I've been through Further Engineering Mathematics a fair few times too. When I first discovered them my first thought was that they should just be handing them out in maths lessons...

 

[John the Monkey]

Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Essays - George Orwell
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
If This is a Man / The Truce - Primo Levi
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
The Water of the Hills - Marcel Pagnol
The Aeneid - Virgil
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Getaway - Jim Thompson
Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain

 

[grumpyoldwoman]

As is life.
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Riotous Assembley - Tom Sharpe

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (I may have to read it again)

Papillon - Henri Charriere

Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson.
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Have You read The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson? It's a new journey around Britain. It's as funny as Notes from a Small Island

 

[Venod]

Have You read The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson? It's a new journey around Britain. It's as funny as Notes from a Small Island

No I havn't thanks for the recommendation, I am recovering from an accident at the moment, so plenty of time for reading, just read a couple of the Narrow Dog books by Terry Darlington, I quite enjoyed them.

 

[Cold]

Jaws-Peter Benchley
The Outfit-Gus Russo
Hop on Pop, Oh the places you'll go & One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish all by Dr Suess (My sons have asked me to read these at least 3 times a week for about the last 6 years)

 

[EltonFrog]

I've read quit a few books twice, but the only books I've read more than twice are

Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel both by Jerome K Jerome.

 

[Colina]

I have read all my Arthur C Clarke books at least twice but i have lost track of how many times i have read the Rama series. As said before there is always something new to find or figure out.

 

[Illaveago]

I read Homer's The Illiad once but had to read several sections over and over again to get the gist of what was going on. I skipped several pages of the black walled ships, I think he over played that bit. He was also good at coming up with tongue twisting names. I could just about manage Agamemnon.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

have you read Puckoon, I think its a cracking funny story, it never fails to make me laugh...

Yep. One of those books you must not read on public transport because the other passengers will think you're insane when you start laughing long and loud.

I read "A man called Ove" on a flight between cph and sthlm and again on the return leg. I could not contain my laughter, try as I might. But I got looked at daggers; such hilarity is not lagom, a stewardess came and asked if I was alright. I think some Scandi's are offended by the subject matter, it being ok for them to laugh at themselves but not ok for others to laugh at them.

But that book made me fall madly in love with Sweden...

 

[Dave 123]

Have You read The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson? It's a new journey around Britain. It's as funny as Notes from a Small Island

I was going to buy it the other day, but I read some Amazon reviews. They basically said regurgitated tripe from a miserable old git...
Fair, or not?

 

[Dayvo]

Two books that really take you into the mind of the two main characters are

The Stranger by Albert Camus

and

Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

Both excellent reads.