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20th August 2006, 02:18 AM
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| Silly Author Person  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Tennessee
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| Re: Which book/s have you read more than once? Oh, let's see... DRAGONSBANE by Barbara Hambly MOBY DICK by Herman Melville GOBLIN MOON and THE GNOME'S ENGINE by Teresa Edgerton All of the Green Lion books by Teresa Edgerton (are we seeing a pattern here?  )THE HEDGE KNIGHT and SWORD SWORN by G.R.R. Martin A couple of Ellery Queen novels (titles elude me at the moment) There are others, I am sure... Laura J. Underwood Author of DRAGON'S TONGUE |
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21st August 2006, 03:43 AM
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| The Cat  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Malaysia
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| Re: Which book/s have you read more than once? Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - Jules Verne Moby Dick - Herman Melville Macbeth - Shakespeare Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte |
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21st August 2006, 08:45 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: UK: ENGLAND:
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| Re: Which book/s have you read more than once? god i wish i could do the fead again thing but once i have read a book i cant forget it so two pages in and i remember the whole thing very sad  |
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22nd August 2006, 12:51 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Lancashire
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| Re: Which book/s have you read more than once? Easier for me to list the authors I reread rather than the books William Gibson, Terry Pratchett, David Eddings, Robert Heinlein, J K Rowling, Asimov, Frank Herbert. Thats all I can think of at the moment. |
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22nd August 2006, 08:19 AM
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| Bernard Black wannabe  Join Date: May 2001 Location: Australia
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| Re: Which book/s have you read more than once? Oh yes! William Gibson definitely gets re-read frequently, mainly All Tomorrow's Parties and Virtual Light. You have to read Gibson, he writes poetry in prose. So beautiful to read and yet so gritty and cyberpunk. Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters: clever, funny, satirical take on Macbeth. Neil Gaiman's Stardust : a dark kind of beautiful fairytale. And Green Monkey Dreams by Isobelle Carmody. An anthology that makes you believe there is still magic and fairytales alive in the modern world, albeit in a mundane guise. So inventive. ( The best stories are Green Monkey Dreams and The World Road) I also re-read Sister Emily's Lightship by Jane Yolen for the same reason. And all of the Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody series (Historical mysteries set in nineteenth century Egyptian archaeological digs. They are my secret, shameful addiction) And The Princess Bride by William Goldman. So clever. So funny. And The Prince by Macchiavelli. Still scarily relevant today. Last edited by Loner; 22nd August 2006 at 08:30 AM. |
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22nd August 2006, 08:02 PM
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| Lord of the Skies  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Ceredigion
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| Re: Which book/s have you read more than once? Pretty much every book in my collection. I whiz through any new book I have so I usually exhaust any new reading material I have pretty quickly. Since I can't afford to buy a new book every week and I have to have some book on the go, I usually read my old ones. Some of them I have to wait a longer period in between reading before I can stand to read them again (otherwise I just know every single plot twist before it comes) but if I leave them long enough I usually forget most of the details even if I still remember the general ending. The pleasure then comes from rereading the intricacies of the plot. The easiest ones to reread are the Harry Potter books and Terry Pratchett. The hardest I've ever found was one book about elephants, which was great but I simply for the life of me cannot reread it. I think the hardest ones to reread are usually the ones that make the most impression on me because they stick in my mind more. It's taken me quite a few years but I am finally rereading the Liveship trilogy by Robin Hobb and once again I am loving it!! |
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24th August 2006, 02:39 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey
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| Re: Which book/s have you read more than once? Replay (3 times) -Grimwood Foundation series (first three only) - Asimov Swiss Family Robinson -Stevenson Contact -Sagan Ender's Game -Card Flatland -Abbott Organic Chemistry-Morisson & Boyd |
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24th August 2006, 04:57 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 43
| Re: Which book/s have you read more than once? Quote:
Forgeting the author's name, I did a google search and clicked on this. http://books.google.com/books?vid=IS...kLw-NXqhQa2Y_I I used the more well known author's name but the page must be in error unless it is a translation by Stevenson or he was the illustrator. More likely, the second author was added in error since Treasure Island is often associated with The Swiss Family Robinson due to similar content. The two men were not contemporaries and Stevenson may have been influence by Wyss's work from my meager research on this. My appologies. | |
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