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I've read Black Beauty two or three times, but it's usually after I haven't read it for several years, and can only dimly remember what's happening next. And, since I read it the first time when I was pretty young, I don't think I got all of it, so it was still nice the second time around. Can't think of any others right now.
Tom Sawyer, this one I can remember reading atleast three times. By far my favorite novel character of all time. I've also read Great Expectations twice. Once when I was in 8th grade and then again two months ago. Enjoyed it much more this time around as I didn't have to keep referring to the dictionary as much.
Also I have read all the Harry Potter except Chamber of Secets twice.
Many times I read a book over after seeing it's film adaptation; like to compare, as Claes said. Also, I read many over that I originally read in high school. I re-read "Tale of Two Cities" and probably some other classics such as "Wuthering Heights", "Jane Eyre". I re-read Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" within a few year period, just because it fascinated me. I often re-read short stories or parts of novels. Of course, I have read, more than twice, the same poems or books of poems. I probably re-read many Shakespeare plays, since I had a course in college (many years ago) and read the main ones within the last few years, so that would be a repeat performance. "Hamlet" - I am sure I have read at least twice, if not more, but also I have seen so many productions of it on film, listened to audio versions many times over; I can nearly recite lines from my memory by now. As with films, if I really like the book, it calls for two readings. As Claes said, you always see something new, the second time around; same with movies. Many films I have watched 3 and 4 times, even up to 10 on really well loved ones. I read slow also, Logos, so I know what you mean. But it is a bit of a problem trying to fit in so much reading, with so many good books out there waiting for me to read them. But sometimes familiar ones are like old friends and you just have to read them again, and sometimes again....even again....
George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984
Stephen King's The Stand
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by Tolkien
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
I read and re-read these books often because they all teach me something about myself or other people. Good can overcome evil and even good people can be tempted by evil. Also, history is important to me and I enjoy reading about it.
I haven't gotten through Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee once yet, it made me so mad I'd have to put it down..
Books I've read more then twice:
Dear Enemy by ?
The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
It and The Stand by Stephen King
Jurassic Park by Chrichton
Well, let's see...I don't really keep track of the numbers after #3!
1. Wuthering Heights (read it the second time for school - that was an easy 'A'!)
2. Jane Eyre (countless times)
3. Persuasion (probably the same amount of times as Jane Eyre - ALOT!!)
4. Maurice (E.M. Forster novel - a few times)
5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
6. The Phantom of the Opera
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. all of Oscar Wilde's plays (numerous times)
9. Edgar Allan Poe's writings (numerous times)
10. Shakespeare's works (bunch of times)
11. The "Little House" series (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
12. A Tale of Two Cities
13. A Christmas Carol
14. Agnes Grey (Anne Bronte)
That is all I can think of right now. I've been thinking about reading Gone With The Wind and The Mystery of Edwin Drood again. I was planning on reading Pride and Prejudice and Little Women again, anyway. So, I will need to get through those first.
Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Animal Farm, Fathers and Sons and numerous of children books which probably no one here ever heard of.
Hugo said something similar: ''It's not bad to die, it's worser not to live.''Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetxa
There are so many...As LadyWentworth said, though, "Wuthering Heights" is the "A"! I must have reas it at least 6 times!
Harry Potter series
Chronicles of Narnia
Precious Bane
There are a lot more I should read again, hehe like Anna Karenina or Crime and Punishment, but I don't have time to reread when I have such a long list.
Maybe one day the list will be longer.
We'll have to discuss this one this weekend! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by amalia1985
I tend not to read the same book twice as there's so many books I want to read but I always tell myself that as soon as I read most of my to-read pile, there's a few books I want to re-read. The problem is that my to-read pile just keeps getting bigger, and I don't know why! But I've read Candide several times, I also read the first and second books of Gargantua and Pantagruel twice.
Poe's Tales, Candide, 1984, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dom Casmurro =]
I've just read some of the stories in Dubliners (James Joyce) for the second time.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Different Seasons by Stephen King
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
I'd read them all again anytime.