Members felix Posted December 8, 2005 Members Share Posted December 8, 2005 Inspired by both the "Movies to Re-Watch" and the "What are you Reading" thread. I'd start by re-reading "A Clockwork Orange" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members linwood Posted December 8, 2005 Members Share Posted December 8, 2005 "Miles" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted December 8, 2005 Members Share Posted December 8, 2005 Naughty Cheerleaders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 8, 2005 Moderators Share Posted December 8, 2005 Catcher in the Rye I love the Holden Caufield character. He's such a sour chump. I keep thinking there's something there that's going on with him that I missed 25 years ago when I first read it. The fact is... there's a lot I missed 25 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted December 8, 2005 Members Share Posted December 8, 2005 For me, reading is 90% looking for books worth re-reading. My list: Tolkien: first read LOTR in 1970. I re-read it about once a year for some 15 years or so, then finally got a bit tired of it. So I focused on the Silmarillion which I've read a dozen times or so. As an example of this obsession, sometimes to cure insomnia I put myself to sleep trying to mentally reconstruct the genealogies of the Elves from the original three that set out on the journey to Valinor.... The Life and Death of Jason - William Morris. The myth retold in some 300 pages of rhyming verse. I read the first 3 books of Dune maybe 5-6 times, then all of a sudden the whole series seemed so preposterous and the writing style so mannered that I can't get into it anymore. Of the British romantics, I've read Jane Eyre the most times, various Dickens after that. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - still gets to me after my first reading 30 years ago. It's not really reading per se, but I love to look at big, well-done coffe-table art books repeatedly - favorites are Milton Avery, Klee, Giotto and other early Renaissance artists, Matisse, Hockney, Raphael, and on and on. poetry is made for re-reading: William Blake - the usual stuff like Songs of Innocence and Experience, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, etc. with occasional attempts into the "prophecies" which are very difficult... The Divine Comedy - always looking for new translations of Dante that shed more light. Selected poetry of Rilke, Yeats, Wordsworth, Auden, Spenser, others. Other religious stuff like Thomas Merton books on Contemplation, Henri Nouwen "devotional" books, the Bible, CS Lewis, etc. NOT a fan of popular apocalyptic fiction like the Left Behind series. nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members epiegols Posted December 8, 2005 Members Share Posted December 8, 2005 Originally posted by nat whilk II William Blake - the usual stuff like Songs of Innocence and Experience, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, etc. with occasional attempts into the "prophecies" which are very difficult... I love Blake! Oddly, what got me into him initially was a Tangerine Dream album called Tyger. I would add:Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - On the reread, it wasnt as great at age 32 as it was at age 19. Maybe Im just jaded now. Letter to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn RandThe Dispossessed - Urlsula K Leguin - The total opposite of Rand. Beware of reading these 2 back to back, your head might explode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members veracohr Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 I think the top of my list of books to read is the Wheel of Time (fantasy) series by Robert Jordan. He is one of the best writers I've every read, and by the time I get through the (so far) 11 books of the series, I'm almost ready to start again, because it's been so long since I read the beginning of the series. (Once I start the series, I have to finish it.) Another is "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. And the Dragonlance (fantasy) series, which I'm re-reading right now, is always a favorite. Thought this time around I've noticed a lot of inconsistencies that I never really noticed before. Stephen King's Dark Tower series has always been a re-reader for me. Though I'm not so sure now, since I wasn't entirely pleased with the ending. Clive Barker's "Imajica" is an excellent re-reader, but I have to be in the right mindframe to wade through the spiritual undertones. "The Celestine Prophecy" is a good re-reader when I need to reaffirm to myself that life is worth something. It's not for everybody, I suppose, but it turned out to be 'for' a surpisingly large number of people. And oh yeah..."The Daily Adventures of Mixerman". As I stated in the "What are you reading" thread, I re-read a lot of books, because I won't read just anything. So I have a lot on my re-read list. I've read the Dragonlance series probably almost 20 times (that is, the ones written by the original authors; the ones written by other authors I rarely read more than once), the Wheel of Time series 4 or 5 times, "Imajica" probably about 5 times, and the Dark Tower series about 3 or 4 times (though I've only read the last three books once, since they're relatively recent.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Donovan Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 "The Mad Monks' Guide To New York City" It's amazing how many hundreds of interesting nooks and crannies and ethnic enclaves of NYC are crammed into this book. I've never been to New York, but the more I re-read this book, the more I want to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yeah Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 Fight Club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 Most of Dostoevsky, Perennial Philosophy and quite a bit of Huxley, various Hesse, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, some of Knut Hamsun especially Mysteries...Anything great of course should be re-read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Base Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 There aren't many books I will re-read, just because there's an awful lot I want to get through at least once! I've read all of the Harry Potter's a couple of times and re-read Tad William's Memory, Sorrow & Thorn. I'll eventually get around to re-reading some of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, only one I've read twice was Small Gods... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zeronyne Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 Wicked Son of a Witch Life of Pi Franny & Zooey, Nine Stories, Seymour, Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters...anything by salinger that involves the Glass family. Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members songrytr Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 I've had a hankering to get back to that old Mick Fleetwood bio...'specially the part where he's in love with Stevie and Don Henley sends the roses and Mick gets so hurt and mad and.... Oops...sorry. Guilty pleasure. Seriously, I've been meaning to re-read Timothy White's "Catch A Fire" for years...but there are so many new ones waiting for me to pick them up. So little time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members D Charles Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 Gosh songrytr, you've got Mark Twain in your sig and don't mention the greatest writer ever (to me). Read 'Letters from the earth.' It's short stories and such, my favs being Capt Stormfield's trip to heaven and The Mysterious Stranger. You cats that mention Tolkien should really check out Stephen R. Donaldson's two Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever trilogies. My late cousin described them to me ages ago as Tolkien for adults and I think he was right. Really dark heavy stuff but very entertaining. I've read 'The Stand' by Stephen King a bunch of times. Something just resonates with that story. Watchers by Dean Koontz was fun. Have to think about it some more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 What about His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pulman...for me much greater read than Tolkien. Addictive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members felix Posted December 9, 2005 Author Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 Originally posted by Yeah Fight Club Hmmm... I was underwhelmed by Fight Club. Loved the movie, but guess I thought I'd find lots more to love about the book - and didn't. I've often wondered whether I'd like any of his other books better. I do like the twisted, edgy slant he takes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 9, 2005 Moderators Share Posted December 9, 2005 Originally posted by Yeah Fight Club Yeah, for sure. Have you read Survivor also by Chuck Palahnuik? I actually liked it better than Fight Club and Fight CLub was great. Edit: I missed your entry Felix until mine posted. Check out Survivor. It suffers from having an unfortunate title as it came out during the same time or before the song and TV show. Nothing to do with either, thank God. It is funny in such an intelligent way. Highly recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 Originally posted by Lee Knight Catcher in the Rye I love the Holden Caufield character. He's such a sour chump. I keep thinking there's something there that's going on with him that I missed 25 years ago when I first read it. The fact is... there's a lot I missed 25 years ago. Too bad other people reading "Catcher" hadn't missed 25 years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 9, 2005 Moderators Share Posted December 9, 2005 Originally posted by Tedster Too bad other people reading "Catcher" hadn't missed 25 years ago... I don't understand Ted? Are you refering to Salinger gone missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted December 9, 2005 Members Share Posted December 9, 2005 Originally posted by Lee Knight I don't understand Ted? Are you refering to Salinger gone missing? I think this is a reference to John Lennon's killer who was obsessed with Catcher in the Rye. Correct me if I'm wrong.... nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 10, 2005 Moderators Share Posted December 10, 2005 Originally posted by nat whilk II I think this is a reference to John Lennon's killer who was obsessed with Catcher in the Rye.Correct me if I'm wrong....nat whilk ii Yeah. God ,I forgot about that. How ironic too... I just finished the fine article on Lennon in this month's Rolling Stone, boot the laptop, and this. I guess it wasn't the best day to think about re-reading that one. We miss you John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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