What book(s) have you re-read?

For some reason, I always seem to re-read Jack London books. White Fang is my favorite book ever, I've probably read it like 8 times. I re-read Call of the Wild a few times, and Sea Wolf.

I recently re-read the Odd Thomas books by Dean Koontz, although I still haven't read the last 2.

I read the whole Harry Potter series a couple of times in school.

Two of my favorite books in school were called House of the Scorpion, and Heir Apparent. I just recently looked those up to start reading again.

I almost never read anymore. Basically any books I've read were limited to my school days.

I have never re-read a book. I prefer to read it only once.

Candide. Whenever I'm down I go back and find something to lift my spirits.

(January 30, 2014 at 10:18 pm)Shaggy Wrote: .
I recently re-read the Odd Thomas books by Dean Koontz, although I still haven't read the last 2.

Dean Koontz books are my guilty pleasure. I love the Odd Thomas series. I have a theory that he's going to merge Odd Thomas and Christopher Snow.

The book I could read 1000 times is John Steinbeck' s East of Eden. Steinbeck's my favorite author by a long shot, and East of Eden is his absolute best.

I've been re-reading a lot of books recently. Maybe it has a lot to do with re-buying books I previously had in paperback in hardcover, but in the past two months, I've re-read Catch-22 twice. Honestly, of the books in my reading queue, the only ones I will have read for the first time are The Shawl, The Moon is Down (it's in a volume with four other Steinbeck books), The Confidence Man (in a volume with Moby-Dick, The Piazza Tales, and Billy Budd), The Shawl, and some of Flann O'Brien's novels (I have the collected works and have already read At-Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman). Also in the queue are Tom Jones, Don Quixote, Old Man and the Sea, and Strunck/White's Elements of Style.

(January 30, 2014 at 10:25 pm)jumbojak Wrote: Candide. Whenever I'm down I go back and find something to lift my spirits.

Classy.

I find myself having read The Giver several times. It's been my favorite book for close to 15 years or so probably.

She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb.
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell.

I don't often reread books, though I have done some rereading of Animorphs in recent years. This is because I'm a member of a fan site, and they have a sub forum where they reread the series and talk about the individual books.

I also considered rereading earlier books from the song of Ice and Fire series, after a new book came out after about a five year gap. Instead, I decided I wasn't really all that interested in it anymore and just left the series. It's bad enough when a book only comes out once a year, especially if you get spoiled on a series that comes out monthly, but five years is just too long for me.

There's also the fact that I used to read as a pastime when riding a vehicle somewhere. Now that I drive myself, I don't really do much book reading.

(January 30, 2014 at 11:07 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I also considered rereading earlier books from the song of Ice and Fire series, after a new book came out after about a five year gap. Instead, I decided I wasn't really all that interested in it anymore and just left the series. It's bad enough when a book only comes out once a year, especially if you get spoiled on a series that comes out monthly, but five years is just too long for me.

Ah. You're missing out. GRRM is notoriously, frustratingly slow, but now he's got to keep up with the HBO series. ASOIAF is just too good! The fifth book was just phenomenal, and the sixth comes out this year! (Maybe probably)