Sir Nigel, and also The White Company by Conan Doyle.
'Acid House' and 'Trainspotting'.
Gotta be JUPITERS TRAVELS by Ted Simon.
Riding around the world on an old Triumph in the 1970s - adventures galore... 😆
Michael Marshall Smith - One of Us
Mudshark - I've been trying to remember the name of that book for ages. Will be seeking it out.
Mine - probably one of the Jeeves and Wooster books - Code of the Woosters I think.
Irma Kurtz - "The great American bus ride".
Fiction...got to be "The day of the jackal" by the masterstoryteller.
Eh one of these......
A star called Henry Roddy Doyle
Close to the Wind pete Goss
Never been one for reading a book a second time but a few weeks ago when i broke my collar bone, i reread the bit in THHGTTG about the definition of flying. Couldn't stop laughing and have made a mental note to read it all again soon.
As a kid i tried and tried to read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy - start / stop / restart / stop - over and over again. Great films but wasn't over keen on the read.
@sweepy - i'm waiting for him to publish the third book too!
The Lord of the Rings. First read it when I was 9, read it about 6 or 7 times since.
Tom Bombadil still annoys me every single time.
Neuromancer / Count Zero / Monarch Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson.
Good Omens - Pratchett / Gaiman.
I get stuck on LOTR during the dead marshes bit. I just wish Golem would murder the furry midgets and have done with it.
One of the joys of growing old is that I can re-read all my old books, without remembering the plots 😳
Oh, and Thomas The Tank Engine.
Rogue Male, haven't seen that for a while. I read that probably 6 or 7 times over the course of my childhood.
Also read Inferno by Larry Niven about that many times when I was younger. Eventually tracked down a copy as an adult for about £1.50 somewhere.
In more recent times, Catch 22, maybe 4 times.
And Only Forward, by Michael Marshall Smith.
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in depth look as to why the world is what it is today....
would encourage any closet rascists to give it a read.
Catch-22 here, funny, savage and brilliant in equal parts
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
World War Z
Are probably my top 3 for re-reads
As an adult it's probably 'A Walk In The Woods' by Bill Bryson. Lots of Frederick Forsyth, Willard Price, Arthur Conan Doyle and The Hobbit in my youth.
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When they put back in 40,000 words cut from the original.
Day of the Triffids - was my favourite book as a kid. Must have read it a dozen times...
Sunset Song. Absolutely stunning book.
Of more recent, Anathem. Think that's three times now (Crytonomicon only twice so far...) and Kitchen Confidential. KC I bought and gave to several friends as I enjoyed it so much.
stuey - you think it benefits from the additional 40k words? I mean, it was already a bit... baggy, I thought.
And there's something about reading 70s SF in the original paperback, weird cover art, yellowing pages and all. Our house had a stack of slim Pohl books which all had weird covers. Great fun - not as good in newer packaging.
Some good ones there, I forgot about Sunset Song - have re-read it a couple of times, didn't even do it for Higher English..
Lord of the Rings - 4-5 times maybe?
The Crow Road, and The Bridge (both with scribbled autographs as it happens)
Still like the ratchet in tension in Day of the Jackal, too...
John Steinbeck - Cannery Row, probably read at least once a year for a decade.
Can't remember as a child, though I did do quite a bit of re-reading. There was lots of Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, C S Lewis et al.
For me great fiction creates a vivid picture inside the mind that I can inhabit at will. I cannot imagine not wanting to be ''Doc" from Cannery Row again before I die, so at regular intervals I'll pull it from the shelf and immerse myself again. It's like going for a drink with an old mate really, reliving past glories.
LOTR
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
nico74 - I tried reading them side by side - the cut version comes across all "Johnny Staccato" and is definitely lacking in comparison - but I do the 75p retail 70s cover 🙂
I rarely read a book more than once but I've read LOTR 3 times but one book I do make sure I read over and over again is Stephen Kings "The Stand" IMO it's his best book ever and he's wrote some brilliant books.
Generally there just doesn't seem to be the time, there are so many books to read for the first time, but I have re-read Zen and Catcher in the Rye.
I also re read Robertson Davies 3 trilogies. His is not a name I can recall anyone mentioning on book threads on here but he's one of my favourite authors.
LOTR's about 6 times. I've also read The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David Eddings about 3 times :nerd:
Dune
The Reality Dysfunction
Startide Rising
The foundations of mechanical accuracy by Wayne R Moore
Mine are probably Number9Dream and Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. Seem to read Ghostwritten every year at some point. Ive always got a partially read Culture novel secreted in a dark corner of the house, even when you've read them a couple of times it's nice to dip in.
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20 years old now, weird! Overdue a re-read actually.
Espedair Street by Iain Banks and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Heinlein close runners up though. And the first Amber series and the Mars trilogy would be higher if they didn't take so bloomin long to read
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
I've read A Suitable Boy- Vikram Seth, three times.
I've also read a lot of books twice. If you leave a 10 to 15-year gap between readings, you spot new things you didn't spot the first time!
The Escape Artist by Matt Seaton
A truly wonderful (cycling) book about Matts rise into cycling and his gradual descent back out of the sport, as family and work pressures take their toll.
This is the only book I've ever finished and gone straight back to page one and started again.
Mr Pea
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The. Diesel Generator handbook ..................I
i can highly recommend it , its throbbing !
@CaptainFlashypants - Great Game again for the 4th time, such a pity none of today's politicians take the time to read it, they may have saved a lot of lives.
Read LOTR 7 or 8 times and the Silmarillion more (much better book IMO)
Plus the Calvin & Hobbs anthologies, over & over.
Thhgttg a few times and plenty of Pratchett''s books.
Apart from hundreds of childrens books - can recite the Gruffalo and Duck in the Truck (a skill that has lost it's use now the kids have grown up a bit)
Rarely read anything more than once but two that spring instantly to mind (and possibly the only two) are Complicity by Iain Banks and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson.
I always plan to read cycling books again but never get round to it, Ann Mustoe's A bike Ride would be in that list.
There's loads I've gone back to and read numerous times, and a great many I've only read once or twice.
Those I keep going back to include everything by William Gibson, a great many of Roger Zelazney's books, especially [i]Today We Choose Faces[/i], [i]Roadmarks[/i] and [i]Damnation Alley[/i], which I'm reading again at the mo' as an ebook.
Most of Larry Niven's Known Universe books, Neil Stephenson's [i]Zodiac, Snow Crash, Diamond Age[/i],
Iain M. Banks' Culture series, and loads of others over many years, some, like [i]Today We Choose Faces[/i], and Niven's [i]Time Out Of Mind[/i] probably several dozen times, because, and this is key, they're all pretty short!
Not like today, where an author feels it's not worth turning in a manuscript unless it goes to 600 pages, and it's part of at least a trilogy. Nobody writes short stories or novellas any more, sadly; there's a lot to be said for brevity.
The short version of [i]Damnation Alley[/i] is just as good as the expanded novel, and Arthur C. Clarke wrote [i]Against The Fall Of Night[/i], then later revised and expanded it as [i]The City And The Stars[/i]. I've read both, any number of times, and I enjoy them both, equally.
And neither are very long!
All quiet on the orient express - Magnus Mills
Most of Graham Greene.
I've read lord of the rings well over ten times since I was twelve. Other than that there are only really three books I revisit more than a couple if times, Grapes of Wrath, One Thousand Years of Solitude and Beowulf. Generally I read lots of shit so that's no measure of my literary worth.
For Whom The Bell Tolls, x 3
I, Claudius and Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward both x 2
Several here are on my reread list.
Most of Graham Greene.
End of the Affair's on my reread list! & Power & the Glory.
Chickenhawk - Robert Mason (Vienam war)and Into thin air - John Krakauer (Mountaineering)
Grapes of Wrath
Catch 22
Lord of the Rings
Dark Tower (7 book series, with 8th book released in 2012 that I just heard about: Dark Tower-The Wind Through the Keyhole
