Besides the Bible what books have you read more than twice?
This may have been done before.
Doesn't matter, we'll do it again.
I'm watching Dune, I've read those many times, I love Leto II.
LOTR and the Hobbit
Douglas Adams
I haven't done Thrones for a third çause the TV is so good.
Others, I'll have to think on it, I've lost count, how many times with Cugel?
Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, a trilogy in six parts
David Brin - Uplift books (2 x series of 3), The Postman, The Practice Effect
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - Footfall, The Mote In God's Eye
Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio
Lots more I'm sure.
The Wheel of Time - the whole series twice, the first four books thrice. (Working on book 5)
When I was a kid, I practically read a hole in some Jules Verne. More than twice... Hmm... In Search of the Castaways, surely. 20K leagues - probably.
A few textbooks on programming, leadership and political theory.
It's not a very long list. The list of books I've read exactly twice is much longer.
Pride and Prejudice, The Information, Dead Babies, many Philip Larkin poems, Wolf Hall. And yet I remember little to nothing.
All of the Disc world stuff some many times. Started LotR but just couldn't do it a second time. I don't know why I couldn't put it down the first time, the magic just wasn't there. Now I come to think of it the only other books I have read more than once at the HHGttG series.
Isaac Asimov's ,,Foundation trilogy". Roger Zelazny's ,,Amber series". Fredric Brown's ,,Martians, Go Home!". Clifford Simak's ,,Way station". A.E. Van Vogt's ,,Slan".
From Asimov to Zelazny, I've read many of their works several times. Currently revisiting the Amber series. I have at least 100 scifi novels.
moby dick
lotr
toby chipmunk
for whom the bell tolls
everything loren eisely ever wrote
all the tintin books
I have read very few books twice (yes, the Christian Bible is one of them) and can think of none that I have read more than twice. I did read Gravity's Rainbow twice though, which may qualify. It could be the first book I read three times. :lol:
I am not counting academic textbooks here, so the only book that I have read twice for pleasure was Aldous Huxley's Island. The first time was as a schoolboy shortly after it came out. As a huge Huxley fan, I couldn't wait to read it; I had read all his novels by the time I was 14. I reread it a few years ago, when I appreciated it as much as the first time, but with the deeper understanding that maturity brings.
i did the same with orwells novels, essays, and letters.
his essay on shooting an elephant was very thought provoking to me, as it took place while he was a colonial policeman in burm, and i lived farther south in malaya
I have read several books twice. Poetry is always worth reading several times.
I have read a small book called the book of Genesis several times. Sounds like a con job to me. The book is contained within a much larger collection of books the sum of which is commonly called the bible. The collection would more correctly be called a Codex.
One of the ones that I have read more than once is a book by a British historian :Selina O'Grady. Book title is: And Man Created God. The book does not assail the Christian, Catholic, Hebrew, Buddha or other beliefs. It is merely a history of religious practices and the outcomes over time. O'Grady lets the reader draw their own conclusions.
I've read Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy twice as well as Roger Zelazny's Amber Series.
Twice read, twice as known.
I like my books like my women, short but feisty. Twice visited, twice as done.
Books should read like silk or sex.
I visited The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway twice, and found it even better the second time.
that book does grow on you.
a lost world.
I rarely reread books.
tuning for speed by phil irving
he was antipodal
Quote from: billy rubin on June 13, 2023, 12:49:09 AMtuning for speed by phil irving
he was antipodal
And hence never existed, throw that book away Billy, throw it, throw it far away.
i couldnt prove he never existed
Recently discovered a book in my garage that I had not used for years. It is a Brit book with a printing date of 1938. Title: Elementary Practical Mathematics. Sub title: A text book covering the syllabuses of examinations in practical mathematics for the National certificate. The credit lines for the two authors list one of them as a as "lecturer", The other one is given the title of; "Reader in Geometry". Brits talk funny but their math, physics, and engineering concepts are damn good.
Fascinating book. Eighty five years old but just as immovably valid as any of today's engineering math books. This book is a treasure that I appreciate.
I also have a book printed in 1907. The title is; Practical Illustrated Treatise on automobiles. The introductory page says that the book is " a practical treatise on the theory,construction, operation and care and management of all forms of Automobiles".Some of the drawings are...what is the word... Precious. The drawings are more than well done and they show the bits and pieces of the "Modern automobile" that was, at that time, referred to as a "motor carriage".
Billy may be pleased to know that the book contains much detail about "gasoline Motor Cycles".
That book is also a treasure. I hope that whoever ends up with it after I am gone, will also appreciate all the effort that went into the development of the automobile and its engines. More than that, I want the new owner to see the book as I do, a 116 + year old treasure.