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I forgot about Hemingway!! How could that be? I read, reread Hemingway all time I was in college. I wanted to grow up and be able to write just like him. (but doesn't everyone?) Now I need to go back and read him again. I've forgotten a lot.....must be age. I love his short story, A Clean Well Lighted Place among others.
@Granny5: I love that short story! One of the most powerful writings I've read. But then, Hemingway's works are very powerful.
Here's a link to anyone who hasn't read it:
http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html
I've read Le petit prince by Saint-Exupery at least seven times because it impressed me so much when I was still a little girl and I just can't forget it. I'm reading it right now but in French. :)
I also read Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund twice because they were just great and I understood them completely different the second time. And I think I will read them again.
George Santayana's The Last Puritan three times.
Why?
I enjoy books and movies that make me think. This book says a great deal about philosophy and the modern conscience. Because of that I have written many notes along the book's margins. Each chapter is worthy of prolonged discussions and the book leaves you with many more questions than answers.
Other books:
Orwell's 1984 (five times)
Poe's A Cask of Amontillado (thirty times - my favorite short story!)
The Bible (many times as I use it to shake up right wing liars and bigots)
Hemingway's Old Man & The Sea (3x -- a delightful tale)
When I was a youth there was a children's novel entitled Don and the Book Bus that I read many times. Don't know if it's still in print but it was a fun read.
all Jane Austen's twice (some more)
Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury; Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love; some of Forster's. Read them about twice because I think I failed to understand (or at least appreciate them) and they do satisfy with every subsequent readings.
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Originally Posted by hellsapoppin
I've read most of Poe's work more than 2x (I wuv my "The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe".. sits by my bed on the floor right now!!) But my most read are "Morella" and the "Oval Portrait"
Also Christine, Needful Things, the Shining, Misery--- Stephen King
And the Chamber, the Brethren--- John Grisham
The Cardinal of the Kremlin--- Tom Clancy
I'm currently on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. I read it previously in October 2003.
I've read Jane Eyre a few times. It's my fave! Why would anyone read such perfection only once?
It's rare I'll re-read books unless a decent amount of time has passed but I read American Psycho twice in about 18 months (surprise surprise given my screen name:thumbsup:)
I recently read The Stranger (Albert Camus) I can tell you for sure that will be read again very soon
If I really want to understand a poem, I will read it 2-3 times a day. At one point I was reading T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets 3-4 times a day on average, which totals well over a couple hundred times. The only way to really understand a poem is to reread it nonstop, assuming there is something in there. You also need to read the anthology or book it is in several times to really get at it.
Among some of those that I've read more than once are: The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Of Mice and Men, Pride and Prejudice, The Cherry Orchard, Treasure Island, Lord of the Flies, and many more.
For the most part the reason is that I read them in school as assignments, so read them for purpose. I re-read them later (much later) as a reader.
I even read Moby Dick more than once to figure out why people talked so much about the book, it still escapes me, but I do not intend to read it again.
My latest rereads are The Colour by Rose Tremain and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
A quote that I have found --
"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. Francois Mauriac
I re-read quite often :D
Brave New World
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing (not by choice)
Othello
Most of the Harry Potters - though not the last couple
Some of T.S Eliot's poems - (mostly Prufrock & Waste Land)
Pride & Prejudice (and other Austens)
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
To Kill A Mockingbird
Far From the Madding Crowd
Cloudstreet
The Riders
Think I'll stop before the list gets too long :p
I always struggle with whether or not to re-read a book. I know I have a fairly limited understanding of many of my favorite books due to only reading them once, but I have so many hundreds of books I want to read that it makes it tough to spend my time reading ones I've already read. I read a ton of non-fiction books as well so I'm pretty overloaded.
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Wuthering Heights - just now; first time was many, many years ago.
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