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Mine - more times than I can remember:

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Bucolic nostalgia for a lost world, mostly. That and the beautiful prose.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:07 pm
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Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sucliffe.

The book that introduced me more than any other to reading and history when I was young.


 
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fight club


 
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probably...

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I re-read Catch 22 every few years. I still think its the work of unbridled, twisted genius! All the characters in it are just so perfectly developed, you feel like you know them all personally, and understand the madness they find themselves in


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:12 pm
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Into Thin Air, John Krakauer

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Posted : 29/07/2013 3:13 pm
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Catch 22 also.


 
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I've read zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance twice, but thats only because I didn't think I really understood it very well the first time. Other than that I've never read a book twice. Also don't tend to watch films more than once unless it's a rainy Sunday afternoon and I'm feeling too lazy to find the TV remote.


 
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How to win friends and influence people


 
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I've only ever read 4 books twice

Ethan Coen short stories - 'Gates Of Eden'. Found it while clearing up and thought I'd give it another read now knowing who he was.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - best book ever written
Lord of the Flies - read at school, re-read under non-studying conditions.
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick - after seeing the film.

There are too many books to re-read many!


 
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JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye.

If you read it aloud it sounds better and will make you laugh, in places.


 
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Midnight Express. First read it when I was around 14. Have read it countless times since. Only got to watch the film when I was around 20 and found myself bitterly disappointed.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:14 pm
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Boy in the striped pyjamas.

I read it once. (I have read other books, once, but this was the most recent. About 3 years ago.)

I'm not really a reader.


 
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I must re-read at least one of the five books every year.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:15 pm
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Not re-read many other than Catcher In The Rye and The World According to Garp.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:16 pm
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Not 100% sure, but it's from the below;

The Great Game, by Peter Hopkirk
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
And pretty much all of the Bond books and the Jeeves & Wooster books/stories


 
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Posted : 29/07/2013 3:17 pm
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1984

is the only book I can remember reading for a second time (once in 1984, and again a few years back).


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:18 pm
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Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:19 pm
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anotherdeadhero +1

also World War Z, I've read that 3 times already.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:20 pm
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As a teenager - Lord of the Rings

As an "adult" - Wasp Factory/Trainspotting/Consider Phlebas


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:20 pm
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lord of the rings books.
3 times so far.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:22 pm
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Blimey - haven't even found the patience to get thru LoTR once properly, let alone thrice.


 
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Trainspotting
The Crow Road


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:25 pm
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IT, Stephen King - about five or six times.
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson - Probably 3 or 4
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson - 3 or 4 times


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:26 pm
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Good Omens is probably the book I've reread most as an adult.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:28 pm
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The Ragged trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
Moving, funny and sometimes accurate.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:28 pm
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:29 pm
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Probably this one:

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But also, another couple of votes for Catch 22, and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
I'd add Puckoon by Spike Milligan, and 100 Years of Solitude , to the list of books that get re-reads every so often.


 
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Sadly, it's my tenancy agreement....

I was surprised to hear my Letting Agents have the Extended edition - complete with the Itinerary I haven't seen before or signed 😯


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:30 pm
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I haven't ever been able to reread any books. I have tried, just can't get away from the "i've read this before" feeling.


 
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Room on a broom!

woooosh and they were gone!


 
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Posted : 29/07/2013 3:34 pm
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I go back to Generation X by Douglas Coupland every so often.

It changed my life first time around.... now I read it to reminisce and to see how far I've come since first reading it.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:34 pm
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THHGTTG here to.

I pick it up and read the opening chapter with Arthur Dent versus the bulldozers and know I'll have to read it to the end again. Must have read it a dozen times

I've read 1984 and Catch 22 a few times too


 
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+1 Catch 22. And also the Good Soldier Schweik, which gets funnier each time I read it.


 
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I read this quite a few times as a kid and found it recently so read it again - enjoyed it too. Apparently it's responsible for the Rambo films!

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Posted : 29/07/2013 3:38 pm
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Magnus Powermouse 😀


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:39 pm
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Bill Bryson's - A short history of nearly everything. For some reason I just really love it.


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:41 pm
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Neuromancer - William Gibson, and a constant ongoing loop of Iain Banks Novels. The Quarry is sitting on the shelf unread as I find it a bit upsetting that it will be the last new book of his I read.


 
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Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (probably read it once every 3-4 years or so, purely nostalgic reasons).

Of course, The Gruffalo and its ilk get read more than any others - some get read every evening for weeks on end it seems (those with kids will understand)...


 
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As a kid - The Machine Gunners, Robert Westall
As a teenager - Catcher in the Rye
As an adult - Trainspotting


 
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I'm not a massive fan of Rohl Dahl's other stuff, but Danny the Champion of the World is my alltime favourite book.
I just love Danny's relationship with his Dad, and all the little things he teaches him. In fact being able to read this book to my kids is one of the reasons I had kids 🙂


 
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'Lord of the rings' or 'To kill a mockingbird', but fast catching up is 'The name of the wind' and the rest of the trilogy (once the bugger gets round to writing the last one)


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:48 pm
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Wind in the willows


 
Posted : 29/07/2013 3:55 pm
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