Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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'The Count of Monte Cristo' is one I look forward to reading every few years.
I should probably give The Illuminatus! Trilogy another read.
I read it every couple of years. Such a good read.
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A Clockwork Orange The Ware series by Rudy Rucker Heartstones by Ruth Rendell Coal by J. Jason Grant Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
A Clockwork Orange
I haven't read it because I'm afraid I won't like it as much as I do the movie. It happened with Jeeves & Wooster. I'd seen the series before I picked up the first book, and the Jeeves described in the book was so different from Stephen Fry - who was Jeeves, in my mind, that I just couldn't enjoy the books.
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Speaker for the Dead
Eisenhorn
Count of Monte Cristo
The Emperor of All Maladies
Moby Dick
Lords of Silence
All Honorable Men: History of the war in Lebanon
Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology
The Biology of Cancer (Weinberg)
Japan to 1600
History of Medieval Russia (Martin)
The Baltic: A History
On War (Clausewitz)
The Back Channel
Timbuktu (Villiers)
Sorry if this is too many, just looked at my book app for ones I keep reading.
Edit: Fuck it, I'm having fun. Here are a few more I remembered while roasting a bowl.
Dune
Amulet of Samarkand
Venice (Madden)
The Golden Compass
First and Only (Abnett) - read the first omnibus
Harrisons Manual of Medicine 18th ed
Gomorrah (Saviano)
The Gunpowder Age (Tonio)
The Money Illusion (Sumner)
Speaker for the Dead
Interesting! I enjoyed it much less than Ender's Game, but they were such different books it doesn't surprise me that someone else would prefer it.
Moby Dick
Right‽ Such an amazing read. It does take a bit to get into the cadence, I find, but so worth it.
I loved Enders Game, Enders Shadow and Speaker for the Dead. It had a great emotional importance to me. Especially Enders Shadow, it was one of the first books I read that properly described starvation. I went through a lot as a child, and Beans story of a starving, smart, small kid really resonated with me in the period after my own tribulation. I don't think Shadow has the same impact on people without some of my experiences, so I chose to use the main arc and I've always felt that Ender would rather be remembered as The Speaker more than anything else. Probably silly, but I'm fine with that. In short, I agree, Enders Game is the better book. Speaker is just the pay off.
Moby Dick has always infuriated and enthralled me. I read 5 pages, hate myself. Start reading again in 15 minutes because I can't get it out of my head.
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Snow Crash Rendezvous with Rama Foundation (all of them) Moonwalking with Einstein (non function about memory champions)
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There’s some good (and also some inexplicable to me) books here already so I won’t mention any of them.
I’ll choose P. G. Wodehouse. Although he’s more famous for Jeeves and Wooster I much prefer his Blandings stories. Such sublime, perfection.
His writing seems so effortlessly easy but others who have attempted to emulate it have all fallen ugly, leaden, clumsy and short of his comic genius.
Just done a reread of these and would gladly reread again.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books in the series)
They are short enough that you could easily read all of them in a couple months at a steady pace.
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Books that I have already read more than once:
The Stranger by Camus The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo The Fisherman by John Langan
- The Power of Now
- Batman (1989, it was well written for a movie novelisation)
Kokoro.
Also have vague plans to reread Der Zauberberg
Likely also will reread V. and the Count of Monte Christo at some point.
Malazan Book of the Fallen.
The black company had some good reread value, at least the first three! If you havnt read em, you absolutely should.
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I’m not a big rereader, but at some point I’d like to read through the expanse and the locked tomb again
The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990
its short so suitible for a quick reread & even for people who dont like books
its like a childbook in the amount of text but more for adults
The Golden Ass, I absolutely love this book
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass
Especially inside the story Tale of Cupid and Psyche
Witcher, I've read it at least once every two/three years for the last 18 years and it's still entertaining.
Planning my second read-through. What a work of art
Indeed. And what fascinates me the most is how well it holds up after so many years, there's no other book that's still so engaging for me, especially given I'm a very different person than I was 18 years ago.
Sapkowski's writing is awesome.
Lord Of The Rings.
He Who Fights With Monsters.
Thrawn.
The Hunt For Red October.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
So many I will give another listen to.
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I'm a big rereader in general, but occasionally a book will grab me so hard that I finish it & begin again right away. I've had two of those in the past year:
- Moonbound by Robin Sloan
- Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
I was like that when Jurassic Park came out. I read it at least a couple of dozen times.
Project Hail Mary was amazing. Can't wait for the movie too.
There will be a movie‽‽‽
It's got Ryan Gosling cast as the main, I think?
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I have all discworld books, I would definitely reread most of them. I just reread The Hail Mary Project.
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I plan to reread all Clive Barker novels a second time, at some point in my life. His prose is just so unique and has an effortless beauty about it that I've yet to find in another author.
Plot can only really draw you in once... when you already know what happens in a story it doesn't have the same pull it had the first time. But prose has a lasting appeal, one that can be revisited. The indescribable quality of the way that words can make you feel is unique to the relationship between reader and writer.
So you didn’t let Mr B go?
Fittingly enough, that was the first of his novels I read and will likely be the first one I reread.
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The Dark Tower series. All of them
It got awkward when King decided to be a character in his own story. But aside from that I really enjoyed them.
Don't ask me silly questions, I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo-choo train, and I'll always be the same I only want to race along, beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo-choo train, until the day I die
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Most of The Culture series
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
I loved that one.
The Sandman Slim series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/46424-sandman-slim
And
The Dresden Files series
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