Dayvo
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I've read it more times than you, you illiterate nobber!
Looking at the pictures doesn't count.
If you can beat 40+ times, you're doing well.
Books you read, and reread again and again
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Looking at the pictures doesn't count.
If you can beat 40+ times, you're doing well.
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Dave 123
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And I forgot to say...
Anything by Laurie Lee. Just beautiful!
Anything by Laurie Lee. Just beautiful!
discominer
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Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels. All of them.
Dave Davenport
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Books I've read 5+ times;
1984
The Road
His Dark Materials trilogy
Mind you, having three kids I must have read everything by Shirley Hughes, Roald Dahl, the Ahlberg's and Terry Jones dozens of times each.
1984
The Road
His Dark Materials trilogy
Mind you, having three kids I must have read everything by Shirley Hughes, Roald Dahl, the Ahlberg's and Terry Jones dozens of times each.
HertzvanRental
Veteran
All of Damon Runyon.
The Moon and Sixpence - Somerset Maugham
I like the Lucas Davenport series by John Sandford.
The Moon and Sixpence - Somerset Maugham
I like the Lucas Davenport series by John Sandford.
Ian H
Ancient randonneur
At Swim-Two-Birds is astonishing and very funny.
Don't neglect Beckett's early novels, e.g. Watt and Murphy.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Must admit, there are very few (fiction) books I've re-read, even the real greats: 1984, Catch-22 etc. Couple of suggestions up-thread and in the rubbishing of great books thread. Ones I fancy re-reading might include Catch-22, Zen& the art etc. There's so much I haven't read, so should really read Dickens, (finish) war and peace, etc first
Hugh Manatee
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To Serve The All My Days amongst many others. I'm starting the year with something new though.
Joshua Plumtree
Approaching perfection from a distance.
As a kid I loved The Secret Seven and The Famous Five by Enid Blyton and all of Agatha Christie's murder mysteries, especially when Miss Marple was involved! Then some John Wyndham as a teenager.
Nowadays stuff by John Steinbeck. Cannery Row is fantastic.
Vanity Fair, Thackery.
Have lots of Dickens in the house but can't read any that I've watched on TV or at the cinema, so haven't read Oliver Twist or A Christmas Carol for this reason.
Almost anything by Thomas Hardy.
Read Catch 22 several times over as a young man. Made me laugh out loud every time. Funnily enough, re-read it recently and it left me cold.
Nowadays stuff by John Steinbeck. Cannery Row is fantastic.
Vanity Fair, Thackery.
Have lots of Dickens in the house but can't read any that I've watched on TV or at the cinema, so haven't read Oliver Twist or A Christmas Carol for this reason.
Almost anything by Thomas Hardy.
Read Catch 22 several times over as a young man. Made me laugh out loud every time. Funnily enough, re-read it recently and it left me cold.
Dayvo
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I read my old Tintin books every now and then, and like to have a browse through my very old Rupert books. 
Profpointy
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I read my old Tintin books every now and then, and like to have a browse through my very old Rupert books.
I loved Rupert Bear. Sci fi plots and rhyming couplets. What's not to like
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
The only ones that have attained the again and again and again status are the Spike Milligan Adolf Hitler series.
They still make me wibble and weep with laughter.
They still make me wibble and weep with laughter.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
But I have read Niven & Pournelle five or six times.
