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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2314749" data-attributes="member: 2205">It's hard to think of many that I read over and over again like Lord of the Rings  I've lost track of how many times I've read that; over 15 and maybe as many as 20 times.I've read the Harry Potter books several times; usually when a new movie or a new book is about to be released and I want a refresher.  And of course, once I start, I end up reading the whole series again, usually over the course of a week or less.Oddly enough, one of my favorite books that I have to have read at least half a dozen times, and probably more, is Indo-European Studies by J.P. Mallory, who is one of the most respected anthropologists in the field, and is the main champion of a revised Marija Gimbutas kurgan theory of the origins of the Indo-Europeans.  That one, obviously, is not fiction.  I've had a copy on my bookshelf for quite a while now.Also I have a great fondness for Rafael Sabatini; Scaramouche is my favorite of his, although Captain Blood and The Black Swan are also brilliant.  As I said in another thread on the topic once:Also, one of my classics of childhood that I still reread over and over again is Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Oddly, the first book in each of his series is brilliant, and then sadly the quality seems to drop off sharply.  I still haven't ever managed to read all 24 of the Tarzan books, for instance.  But Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars, Pirates of Venus and At the Earth's Core are still some of my favorite books to whip off my shelf and read when I need to kill a few hours.And although he often frustrates me with his clumsy prose, I continually come back to Lovecraft for his brilliant ideas.  "The DreamQuest of Unknown Kadath" is my favorite; a novella set in a Dunsanian sword & sorcery dreamland that's actually quite a bit different than his more well-known pseudo-horror stories.Although he frustrates me even more, Robert Jordan has had several read throughs.  He does just enough right to entice me to catch up again and see if he's ever done anything with his new novels.  He rarely has, and I had already more than once written him off as unreadable and given up, but masochistically, I keep coming back for more.  Currently I'm "rereading" on Audiobook as I commute to hopefully be caught up for the October release of book 11.</blockquote>

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