Books Worth Rereading

[Bleedingskye]

Books: Hitchhiker's guide, gotta read all of em, FYI Douglas Adams wrote that screenplay before he died, wanted to do somethin a little different I guess. I loved the movie regardless of plot changes...still funny and entertaining, kept the same style as the books I thought
Foundation series-Asimov
To The Scatters Your Bodies Go (Riverworld series, don't you dare watch the syfy miniseries)
Unbearable Lightness of Being is definitely worth another read through
Comics: Preacher-Garth Ennis(This guy writes some awesome stuff)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Fables
Just went through Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men again, pretty good stuff

 

[CrashBang]

I thought Final Crisis was a waste of time. A waste of money, and I got it for 75% off. I mean...the treatment of Martian Manhunter alone...ugh...

OT: (and to the poster I just quoted, these are all highly recommended, and are all graphic novels.) BATMAN - Year One, The Long Halloween, Dark Victory, Catwoman: When In Rome, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth, Hush, The Killing Joke, Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader, and The Dark Knight Strikes Again
VERTIGO - All of Transmetropolitan, Sandman, Preacher, and Y: The Last Man, V For Vendetta, We3
OTHER - The Boys, Wanted, The Walking Dead

Is final Crisis really that bad? Why? I was looking forward to it
Also I forgot about The Long Halloween and Dark Victory, I've read them both several times. In fact, I'd day Long Halloween is my favourite Batman graphic novel. I've also read every Batman comic you recommended (bar Catwoman: When In Rome) and I thoroughly enjoyed Hush most of all until the book literally fell apart in my hands; it's terribly held together.

 

[Neverhoodian]

If you like Warhammer 40,000 books, the Gaunt's Ghosts novels are definitely worth reading multiple times. The Ciaphas Cain series is a good one as well just because the author managed to pull off the impossible: injecting genuine humor into one of the grimmest, darkest fictional universes ever created. If you read the Cain books back-to-back though you start to notice that the plots tend to follow the same pattern:

Spoiler

Cain tries to back out of life-threatening consequences. Ironically, Cain is thrust into said consequences because of his actions to avoid them. Cain saves the day with the help of Jurgen and is hailed as a hero, increasing the odds he'll be thrown into combat next time around. Finally, Cain hooks up with his girlfriend for a night of implied kinky Commisar-on-Inquisitor action.

 

[Agayek]

Series:

The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks

Individual books:
Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan
Thirteen by Richard K Morgan
The Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

 

[Carnagath]

I haven't read the book, but I agree that the movie was pretty awful. I picked up the book from a thrift store just the other day.

Make sure you read all 5 books to fully appreciate everything, nowadays most book stores just sell the "ultimate" versions that have all 5 in one big one. And the plot of the movie was SOOO far off, pretty much it just had characters of the same name. Only about 2% of that movie was from the book, and just the first book too, rest was just made up shit.

Maybe that's because the books are 50% alcohol-induced random insanity and 50% English humour, therefore quite unfilmable I love them myself, just sayin'.

 

[BodomBeachChild]

Alan Folsom writes some good books. A Brief History of Time is also good.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You have to read the entire "5 book trilogy". Also don't let that stupid new movie be any reference to the book, it doesn't do it justice.

THERE IS NO FIFTH BOOOOOOOOK!
Do not mention the abomination "Mostly Harmless" It ended as a trilogy of four! *puts on tinfoil hat*

 

[Lilani]

The Hobbit is a book I never mind rereading

 

[TipsyPeaches]

Series:

The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks

Individual books:
Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan
Thirteen by Richard K Morgan
The Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

Most definitely agree with Weeks and Rothfuss, they are incredible authors. If you don't get hooked, there's someting wrong with you.

Things I've reread (sometimes several times): The Book Theif, by Markus Zuzak, and the late Brian Jacques' Redwall series. The former is incredibly emotional, te latter just incredibly charming, saved me a lot of grief doing english projects in high school.

 

[LC Wynter]

Roadside Picnic.
It's the book Stalker, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, and (to an ever so slight degree) Metro 2033 were based on/influenced by.

Basically, there are six zones across the globe that were visited by aliens. The strange and unpredictable artifacts and creatures they left behind (akin to litter at a picnic) are wanted by all sorts. The protagonist illegally goes into one of the zones to earn a living, even when it means his children will be mutated by the strange substances.

An SF classic. Do it bro, and never look back.

 

[Carnagath]

The books I've re-read the most are:

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D.Salinger)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Lord Of The Flies (William Golding)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
Zorba the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)
The Beach (Alex Garland)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Süskind)
Bag of Bones (Stephen King)
Odd Thomas (Dean Koontz)
Ubik (Philip Dick)

 

[Sevre]

Short stories often warrant re-reading, I personally recommend Dubliners and anything by Bruno Schulz.

 

[InnerRebellion]

The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks. Simply amazing.

 

[Squirrelygod]

It's not really re-reading, but after reading The Night Angel trilogy listening to it in the graphic audio form was quite good.

 

[WinkyTheGreat]

I've read the Harry Potter books through more times than I can count (recently did them all in about 30 days). Same goes for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm planning on re-reading Stephen Lawhead's "The Skin Map" again before the sequel comes out this September

 

[Xanthious]

George RR Martins Song of Ice and Fire: This should be at the TOP of your list
* Game of Thrones (Coming soon to HBO!)
* Clash of Kings
* Sea of Swords
* Feast for Crows
* Dance with Dragons (Coming FINALLY in July)

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Saga:
* The Eye of the World
* The Great Hunt
* The Dragon Reborn
* The Shadow Rising
* The Fires of Heaven
* Lord of Chaos
* Crown of Swords
* The Path of Daggers
* Winter's Heart
* Crossroads of Twilight
* Knife of Dreams
* The Gathering Storm
* Towers of Midnight
* A Memory of Light (Coming in Late 2011 or Early 2012)
* New Spring (Optional Prequel)

Orson Scott Card Ender's Saga:
* Ender's Game (A Must Read!)
* Ender's Shadow (A Must Read!)
***And if you REALLY like the Enderverse then check out:***
* Shadow of the Hegemon
* Shadow Puppets
* Shadow of the Giant
* Ender in Exile

Bradon Sanderson's Mistborn Series:
* The Final Empire
* The Well of Ascension
* The Hero of Ages
* The Alloy of Law (Coming sometime in 2011)

 

[NDstephan]

For an individual book I have re-read I gotta go with "The Death and Life of Superman" (I must have read it about 20 times)

As for series I gotta go with just about anything from Terry Brooks. "The Word and the Void" "Scions of Shannarra" "Voyage of the Jerle Shannarra" "Armageddon's Children" "Kingdom of Landover" are my favorites.

 

[sycoesis]

tim allens im not really here

love that book so very much

 

[Guffe]

I don't actually think I've re-read a book... unless you count books as a child when I read the same moomin book and Lion King a few times per day.
I don't like re-reading, I've read it ones and I settle for that, then I find the next book.