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Which books do you read again, and again, and again...
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Maerdwyn
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Dune, like many others here.
Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander (Taran Wanderer, Black Cauldron, etc.)
Enders Game
Warlord Trilogy, by Bernard Cornwell (The Winter King, etc. Arthurian fiction.)
Lord of the Rings
Hitchhker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sarum, by Edward Rutherford (concerning Salisbury, England, from the Stone Age through the present)
Gate of Fire, by ... [I'm blanking...maybe Stephen Pressfield?]
Oh, and anything concerning Wooster and Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse.
Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander (Taran Wanderer, Black Cauldron, etc.)
Enders Game
Warlord Trilogy, by Bernard Cornwell (The Winter King, etc. Arthurian fiction.)
Lord of the Rings
Hitchhker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sarum, by Edward Rutherford (concerning Salisbury, England, from the Stone Age through the present)
Gate of Fire, by ... [I'm blanking...maybe Stephen Pressfield?]
Oh, and anything concerning Wooster and Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse.
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Hypersmurf
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Gosh.
I reread lots. So I won't even bother listing books or series I've reread two or three times.
I think I own every novel and short story anthology Timothy Zahn's ever written (although I've lost one of the Cobra sequels
) - I was a huge fan before he ever touched on Star Wars! I expect I'm missing a few short stories from multi-author anthologies. But Zahn's fairly high on my reread list - especially The Blackcollar and its sequel.
Likewise, I have a near-complete Steven Brust collection. All the Taltos books, the Khaavren romances, and Freedom and Necessity are high on my reread list. I've lost my copy of Agyar, and I find To Reign in Hell... less appealing for rereads. I enjoyed reading it once, but I'm in no hurry to do it again.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga. The Blackcollar may be my all-time favourite book, but A Civil Campaign, chapter 9, is my all-time favourite chapter. It is ferpect in every way. I used to reread Bujold because they're damned good books. Now I reread them all as an excuse to reread A Civil Campaign.
David Weber's Honor Harrington. Honor competes with Miles for everything else, so it's only fair
And Weber's Bahzell books, too, come to think of it - book three's out this year!
I tend to reread The Belgariad every year or eighteen months, and The Malloreon, The Elenium, and The Tamuli maybe half that often. (If anyone's interested, it takes about a month averaging two or three hours a day to read The Belgariad aloud...)
Anything SF-related associated with David Drake. I found his fantasy trilogy... okay. But Hammer's Slammers, Northworld, The General, Belisarius, and numerous one-off novels are all fantastic.
Most of Lackey, although the Gryphon series didn't grab me. But all the rest, I'm very fond of.
And though it's been years, I think my Watership Down count was up to about seventeen...
-Hyp.
I reread lots. So I won't even bother listing books or series I've reread two or three times.
I think I own every novel and short story anthology Timothy Zahn's ever written (although I've lost one of the Cobra sequels
) - I was a huge fan before he ever touched on Star Wars! I expect I'm missing a few short stories from multi-author anthologies. But Zahn's fairly high on my reread list - especially The Blackcollar and its sequel.Likewise, I have a near-complete Steven Brust collection. All the Taltos books, the Khaavren romances, and Freedom and Necessity are high on my reread list. I've lost my copy of Agyar, and I find To Reign in Hell... less appealing for rereads. I enjoyed reading it once, but I'm in no hurry to do it again.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga. The Blackcollar may be my all-time favourite book, but A Civil Campaign, chapter 9, is my all-time favourite chapter. It is ferpect in every way. I used to reread Bujold because they're damned good books. Now I reread them all as an excuse to reread A Civil Campaign.
David Weber's Honor Harrington. Honor competes with Miles for everything else, so it's only fair
And Weber's Bahzell books, too, come to think of it - book three's out this year!
I tend to reread The Belgariad every year or eighteen months, and The Malloreon, The Elenium, and The Tamuli maybe half that often. (If anyone's interested, it takes about a month averaging two or three hours a day to read The Belgariad aloud...)
Anything SF-related associated with David Drake. I found his fantasy trilogy... okay. But Hammer's Slammers, Northworld, The General, Belisarius, and numerous one-off novels are all fantastic.
Most of Lackey, although the Gryphon series didn't grab me. But all the rest, I'm very fond of.
And though it's been years, I think my Watership Down count was up to about seventeen...
-Hyp.
Hypersmurf
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Dubya said:
Ooh... Resnick's on my buy-on-sight list. (One of his protagonists even has my real name!)
But Santiago's one I haven't come across.
Man. I just took a look at an online bibliography - there are a whole stack of Resnicks I've never even heard of, let alone seen a copy of!
-Hyp.
John Q. Mayhem
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I've remembered some more. I've read Louis Lamour's The Walking Drum and Last of the Breed a few times, Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain and a bunch of his other stuff multiple times, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and G.A. Henty's The Dragon and the Raven. Also Calvin and Hobbes ad The Far Side.
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