Poll: Re-Readable Books

[Agayek]

Метро 2033 (Metro 2033) by Dmitry Glukhovsky

I reread it every year at some point.

Have you played the game? If so, how does the story of the book compare?

 

[lobster1077]

I've read animal farm a few times, and get inclinations to re-read the best parts of Watchmen now and again.

 

[Richardplex]

Does Manga count? Because I've totally reread the manga I read many times. If not

When I was younger, I never really got new books, so I would just re-read all the books I had.

And I have some crazy resistance of trying something new for absolutely unfound reasons, so I haven't read a new book for a while.

Quite the opposite for me ;P Now that I'm older and have a job/ money I've started to try all the things I've ever wanted. Like read more. Learn about computers. They've always facinated me but I've never known where to start. Play more video games

Funny, it's a massive summer holiday for me now until I get my A level results, and I decided to try out new things, sort my life out. I'm now sitting here, my rooms worse than it was before, and I feel unwilling to play new games after playing Mass Effect 1+2. learning another language, computers, and read more have all failed before they've started. I blame the Britishness in me, unwilling to do something that isn't traditional.

 

[Grell Sutcliff]

well aside from Hellsing, Case Closed, Muzz, and FMA the books I reread are all H-mangas like Prina the Dungeoneering Princess, Futabu, and some of Ai Haibara

 

[Blunderboy]

I have read most of my books/series more then once.
Including, but not limited too.

The Dark Tower.
The Belgariad.
The Malloreon.
The Drenai.
The Elenium.
The Stand.
Discworld.
Sharpe.
The Grail Saga.

The list goes one. No prizes for noticing that most of them are fantasy series.

 

[Easton Dark]

I've read the Zombie Survival Guide about 3 times and World War Z twice.

I don't read many books, but when I do, it probably involves zombies.

 

[Dr_Horrible]

I tend to reread my favorite books/series periodically, as well as new books.

It's not repetitive, even though I read a lot, because I have probably 200+ books (used bookstores ftw).

EDIT:

Discworld.

That's my favorite series of all time... seriously, amazing books

 

[2fish]

The ones I have reread

The Nightrunner series
The Lost fleet series
Night Angel Series
Mistborn series
The Hollower
The Chronicles of the necromancer series
The Clone Republic series

When I hit a book dry spell i pull out a favorite to fufill my cravings.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

Метро 2033 (Metro 2033) by Dmitry Glukhovsky

I reread it every year at some point.

Have you played the game? If so, how does the story of the book compare?

I have played the first half of the game (the game destroys me but god can those Ukrainians make dying so much fun), it does its best, many things arent present because of the time constraints in development but you can tell the influence the book has. The book does have greater depth in characterization, psychology of human nature, political themes, ect ect. Overall I like em both and I cant wait for Last Light next year.


As a side note: Ukrainian game developers are the hardest of core of post apocalyptic games, stalker still beats me.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

One series I've found myself rereading in particular is James Clavell's The Asian Saga [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asian_Saga]. My first re-read was out of curiosity as a sophomore in college (I had first started the series as a freshman in high school). This was primarily to see how five years had affected my perception of the narrative, the characters, and any further reaching implications of scenes and events in the story line. I was genuinely surprised at the new insights and undercurrents I had gathered over the course of rereading the series again as an adult, it was a much richer experience than my first read through as a teenager.

I've recently begun rereading the series again, two years later, since the beginning of this past spring. This time I'm picking up on all the scattered genealogical easter eggs left behind by Clavell and comparing the way real historical events as they appear in the novels stack up against the general content of my history seminars.

 

[spartan231490]

Recently (and by recently I mean right now) I've been thinking about books that could be read more than once. Personally I don't re-read books a whole lot, as I tend to find a lot of books that I enjoy to be very long. However, there have been books that I've read and enjoyed many times, and these books have all been mainly books in the Douglas Adams Hitchhiker series. So I was wandering, Escapists, what books, if any, have you read over and over again?

I love to reread books. Long books. I love reading, it's my fav past-time(yes even more than video games) but It's so hard to find good new series that I'm forced to reread. I reread Eragon 7 times, I reread the Sword of Truth series 5 times or more. I've reread Harry Potter series 3 or four times. I've reread the first 3 Artemis Fowl books 3 times. I reread the first two trilogies of Drizzt Do Urden 2 or 3 times. I reread Vampire Huntress series 3 times. I reread Attikis Kodiak series prolly 6 or 7 times now. You get the idea

 

[Beesejar]

I have read almost all of the stories from call of Cthulu and other weird stories by H.P Lovecraft because for the most part I have to to understand what is being said.

 

[Realitycrash]

Eh, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, probably over eighteen times.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

i read pratchetts discworld novels at least 4 times each ( i own about 30-40 0f those)
I read DUNE 3 times until now
I read King's The Stand 6 times and the Dark Tower series 4 times
There are some novels by Hans-Joachim Alpers playing in the Shadowrun universe or the Dark Eye Universe (you maybe know Drakensang) that i read 3-4 times
And i read the first 4 Gotrek & Felix novels by William King about 4 times each
I bet i will re-read World War Z next year again
And i for sure will re-read A Song of Ice and Fire
I read Die Kobolde (The Kobolds)by Karl-Heinz Witzko 3 times and the sequal König der Kobolde (King of the Kobolds) 2 times
And i got a small book with very short spooky stories that i read about 2-3 times a year usually in one sitting, its only 200 pages.

just a few excamples, if a book was good i re-read it several times, why not. Thats the point of collecting books. i own about 300 now,maybe a little more. Since i read between 60 and 600 pages a day i need constantly new material

 

[catalyst8]

I read Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings seven or eight times as a child. Obviously one's tastes mature in adulthood, & I've found Heaney's translation of Beowulf to be an excellent travelling book, always carrying it whenever I go abroad. I've probably read it over fifteen times in the last twenty or so years.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Sure, I re-read books quite often. For example:

Lord of the Rings (11 times, read it every year)
The Silmarillion (5 times)
The Hobbit (4 times)
Revelation Space (3 times)
Hitchhiker's Guide (3 times)
2001: A Space Odyssey (3 times)
Hyperion (2 times)
The Fall of Hyperion (2 times)
1984 (2 times)
Dune (2 times)
All the Harry Potter books (3 or 4 times, depends on the book)

 

[Count Igor]

Almost every book I've got I've read 5+ times. A lot 10+
I think the best ones I've read almost 30 times now. Hell yeah I'm awesome.