I'm re-reading Dune for what must be the 12th time

[MrCoffee]

I know I'm not the only one. What books do you read over and over again?

[Fox Mulder]

1. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series...

as well as The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice.

[MrCoffee]

4. I have A Game of Thrones waiting for me at the library right now

I'm looking forward to starting that series.

[Fox Mulder]

5. It's a great series.

I guarantee you'll love it.

They were the first books I read in the Fantasy genre and they set such a high standard that no one else has come even close to achieving.

[pokerfan]

15. The Lord of the Rings

needs to be read at least twice.

Ringworld, Foundation, Rama...

[LeftyMom]

20. ASOIAF is deeply awesome.

I'll keep this post positive by omitting my opinion of the works of Mrs. Rice.

[Fox Mulder]

23. The first three books in the Vampire Chronicles are Mrs. Rice's...

only good books.

The rest sucked.

[ohiosmith]

2. I am impressed. I couldn't get through Dune once. No pictures.

I've read all of these at least 12 times each.

[MrCoffee]

8. You would *read* them, wouldn't you?

sigh.

[ohiosmith]

13. That's the story I told my mother and I'm sticking to it.

Pun intended.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Vernor Vinge "Fire Upon the Deep"

I don't know why it's so infinitely rereadable.

[Westegg]

6. Dune, Andromeda Strain, Gatsby, Cather/Rye...

...Ironweed, Wise Blood, The Time of Illusion, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Suspects (by David Thomson)...There are others. That's what I can see on my book shelves from this vantage point right now.

Oh yeah: Conversations with My Elders, by Boze Hadleigh. Just saw it outta the corner of my eye.

[MrCoffee]

11. As far as re-read value goes, Lester Bangs is way up there.

[Westegg]

17. Yeah, huh? Also "The Dark Stuff" by Nick Kent....

...and Stanley Booth's "True Adventures of the Rolling Stones." I'm not comparing Lester, Booth and Bent, as I think they're very different. But all have written stunning stuff about rock. The way I see it, there's rock (which I love), and there's really good writers who write about how it's impacted them. Lester, Nick, and Stanley, to name three. Greil Marcus is another. Jon Savage's "England's Dreaming" is another book I've read multiple times-- well, twice, anyway.

[flvegan]

7. I'm reading "Books Nerds Love" by Dr. Mistah Coffee, PhD.

Hey, are you...is the author...nah, couldn't be.

[MrCoffee]

9. That's a cheap knock-off of my international bestseller "The Book of Nerd Love"

The illustrated edition is a classic.

[flvegan]

10. I read a review. It's all about the human hand.

Didn't interest me.

[MrCoffee]

12. Don't you dare talk smack about Rosey Palmer

She was my prom date...she loves me.

[flvegan]

14. She also loves dogs at the park and ice cream cones.

[Dr. Strange]

16. Dune: the first four books.

(Don't care so much for the last two.) While sipping a pumpkin latte, the way Herbert intended.

[KG]

18. any of Bruce Cattons civil war books.

[Elidor]

24. Just finished re-reading Grant Moves South and Grant Takes Command

He's very good.

I re-read pretty much everything I own because I don't keep bad books. I gotta comb through my closet and find A Perfect Spy tonight. I haven't read that one in a couple of years.

Others that never get old:
Watership Down
Lord of the Rings
Dune (first 3 or 4)
The Face of Battle
Incredible Victory (Battle of Midway)
On Killing
The History of Civilization series by the Durants

[khashka]

19. Let's see......

Fire Upon The Deep -Vinge, Steel Beach - Varley, Doomsday Book - Willis, Emma - Austen, Tristram Shandy -Sterne, Good Omens - Gaiman and Prachett, Raising The Stones - Tepper, Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand- Delaney.

I usually reread over and over any book I really like - they feel like old friends.

Khash.

[MrCoffee]

21. That's the second mention of Fire Upon the Deep...

I am adding it to my list at the library.

[khashka]

22. Please do

It's a great book and very inventive and very intense. It's SF and I don't know if you like that, but it's mostly about relationships, deception, trusting the right "people" or the wrong ones and how far you will go to save someone, and love.

Brilliant book. Vinge's new book "Rainbows End" is very good too.

Khash.

[Arkham House]

25. Lord of the Rings, Foundation Trilogy, Catch-22...

...Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie...and you know something funny about "Dune"? It isn't really an "epic" novel at all...a lot of dialogue, a lot of long action that borders on irrelevant--Paul and Jessica's endless search for the Fremen--and a great deal of action taking plac e off-page, or handled only perfunctorily--the climactic battle with the Sardaukar, for instance...it really resembles a giant SF version of an Elizenethan play, more than an "epic novel"...

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. I have read Dune every few years since I've been in high school.

Find something new every damned time.

I also read LOTR every few years, and pull out good ol' Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer once in a while, too.

And of course, the Bible.

[TZ]

27. Dune, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time

Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Just about anything from Terry Brooks....:)