Books you can read over and over again....

[HurriShane 0]

There's really only one book that I've been able to read through more than once, which is kinda weird because I have no problem rewatching movies and stuff, and that book is Catcher in the Rye.

[Sass 0]

One book I think is worth another look is Batman: The Killing Joke. It really is one of the best stories ever dealing with the Joker as it shows us the man's crooked soul and what eats at it's core.

[nl5xsk1 0]

Just about anything by Bukowski ... I can just re-read his short stories again & again. If I had to pick one in particular, it'd be Notes of a Dirty Old Man. I've probably read that book 10-15 times, and the better short stories have been read more than the rest.

[godthedog 0]

And them there's Joyce's Ulysses; I've only read the whole thing once, but I can open up to any of the episodes and read one section again at any given time.

i second this. i've read it four times since i was seventeen, and although the flaws become more and more apparent with each reading, it never ceases to amaze me & my outlook of it changes just a little bit every time. i can't take it in small doses: once it gets rolling i spend every spare second reading it, and it usually takes a solid month to stop thinking about it once i finish it.

[thuganomics 0]

It seems strange to me that Starship Troopers gets mentioned repeatedly, but Heinlein's finest work, Stranger in a Strange Lan remains unmentioned. I've read it at least 4 times.

 

And Speaker of the Dead is superior to Ender's Game, though a much tougher read.

 

And Neverwhere's my favorite Gaiman work. I've read it three times, while I've only covered the others twice.

 

And I need to throw out the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and the writings of William Burroughs and jack Kerouac for their re-readability, although you generally need to read them twice just to figure them out...

[Kaertos 0]

I mentioned Starship Troopers, but I've never read Stranger in a Strange Land. Why? Beats me. It's been on a "must-read" list for me for years, I just never got around to picking up a paperback. Maybe I'll run out and grab it after I'm done reading the book I'm on now.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

And Speaker of the Dead is superior to Ender's Game, though a much tougher read.

 

I think the main reason it doesn't get as much appreciation is because it's so different from Ender's Game - people read Ender's Game, like it, then go to read the second and are all like "the hell?"

 

That happened to me anyway - I still like the book, it's just pretty different.