A recent day visit to hospital led me to bring "a good book". Although I have about 10 unopened or only just started books scattered throughout the house, I brought TEA with me. I calculate that with enforcd sick leave and multiple train trips to and from work, i can finish the first four in time for the Next adventure.
All of which thoughts lead me to ask, what books can I reread repeatedly?

Some of favourite rereads include: Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, the cat who? series, Phryne fisher series (by aussie Kerry Greenwood) and (I know I am a dag) a series which I read as a schoolgirl, and still add to via ebay The Abbey Series, and ok, I admit, Harry Potter.

What do others reread?

I do exactly the same things. I have a bunch of books I haven't read, but I still reread my favourties over and over.

I just finished WoLP for the fourth time, and I'm currently rereading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. Other books I can reread a lot are Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Terry Pratchett ones, and yes, Harry Potter.

Apart from Fforde (obviously!)

Pratchett, Eddings, Tepper (Marianne Trilogy and the Mahlia books), Kelley Armstrong, Feist, Rowling, John Connolly, Stephen King..... the list goes on.

To be honest, anything I enjoyed with a strong storyline that doesn't have the whole book hanging on "whodunnit" so that once you know whodunnit, you aren't interested in reading ig again.

ps hope you're feeling better Annie! :)



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The Dark Materials trilogy, as there's always something new to find (as in Jaspers books). Other old favourites include Georgette Heyer - all that lovely Regency language - and Marian Keyes.

Pratchett, Freer, Eddings, Clarke, Niven.

Must really get hold of some Heyer. Heard that the dialogue is really slick.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Recently re-read the first three Nextian books. Can't find the fourth <fumes> - the trouble with moving house (actually, countries) is that you can never find anything...

Others: Philip Reeves (Mortal Engines series), Jane Austen, Bill Bryson, Harry Potter, The Great Gatsby, The DaVinci Code.

Pride and Prejudice, Persuaision, Emma and Mansfield park.

all of the Harry Potters, Jasper's books, the Artemis Fowl books, Memoirs of a Geisha, the city watch and witch books by Terry P, the Starlight Barking by Dodi Smith, The Japanese Dolls house books by Nina Bawden I think Hex by Diane Wynn Jones, Garth nix and a whole host of others. Perhpas the scariest is I reckon I have read each David Eddings book at least 5 times many of them a lot more! I really need to expand my reading horizons but I can totally identify with comfort books that you know you can take anywhere and enjoy no matter how many times you read them.

I have read Eddings about the same number of times.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Woo Hoo! A fellow Eddings fan! :D

It is scary when you add up how many pages that is but I just can't seem to get enough of them! What did you think of his latest series?

Pratchett, Rankin (NOT Ian, I swear!), The Double Consonantly One, DNA, Max Barry, Conan-Doyle, Kathy Reichs, Hawking... er... It's rather a long list. I tend to hang onto books.

I am finding Jacqueline Winspear's "Maisie Dobbs" books eminently re-readable.


(edited because I always seem to forget to include the c in Jacqueline's name, dammit...)

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Maisie Dobbs is good, but you need Phryne Fisher.


(Thank you, I wasn't sick, just a small procedure, involving a camera, general anesthetic and a loss of dignity).



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Nemades: You mean the Elder Gods one? Read one of them (I think the first) and found it interesting but not as good as the others. Must give them another chance maybe.

The ones I have read are the Belgeriad, Mallorean, Elenium, Tamuli (all a number of times). Also Polgara and Belgarath's books. Have the Rivan Codex somewhere.

Sparhawk is about my favourite chracter. JFTR.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I can re-read Banks with and without the M , and do so at least once a year, Patrick Tilleys Star Wartz when I bought it I read it in 3 days, then once a month over the next 6 months, now it's down to twice a year. Started to re-read Tilleys Am-Trak Wars saga for the first time in a long while. Other books I've re-read are the Dark Future series fro the now defunct Games Workshop game of the same title, Dan Abbnets books are also, I find, hugely re-readable.

My oldest will has read and re-read the Harry Potter books till the bindings are in danger of giving way.

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Martin - I read them all but did not find them nearly as good as the others, those are the same ones I read over and over again! I think the problem I had with the new series is there was no real suspense - the books just seemed quite repetitive which I thought was a shame. Have you tried the redemption of Althalus? I did like that one and have read it a few times.

The first book I ever read all by my self was the Enormous Turnip - that got read a fair few times!

One of mine early ones was the Story of Robin Hood by Disney. You remember the one with foxes and lions and such? I could read/memorise that one.

Redemption of Althalus was ok. Must maybe try it again some time.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Besides the Ffordes, Prtachetts and Robert Rankins, the Douglas Adams get re-read frequently. The Princess Bride gets both re-read and re-watched.

ID4 is watched every 15th August.

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Tolkien, Pratchett, McCaffrey, Wind in the Willows, DeLint, King, Guy Gavriel Kaye with occassional bouts of Clive Cussler as long as Dirk Pitt's involved!

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