braindancer
not for long
We're the Lonesome Dove Fanclub - though I've still never seen the TV show..... I must watch that one day.
Books you have re-read
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Might read it again this year - and watch the series again
braindancer
not for long
Might read it again this year - and watch the series again
Seems to be on YouTube? Is that the right one? There seem a confusing number of Lonesome Dove TV shows and spin-offs.
Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
I’d like to read Butler’s Kindred again at some point as it blew me away. But it was also really grim in many places. 
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
yep, there are 3 spinoffs I think, all based on his books, I've watched them all, none compare to the 1st.
Much to my family’s irritation, I never get rid of my non-fiction/music/popular culture books because I never know if I’m going to read something that’s going to require me to go back and cross-reference with a previous book.
For example, Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test led me back to Hunter’s Hell Angels and so on.
Fiction I’m happy to recycle, on the whole.
Still told I have way too many books in the house though. Can you have too many books? Nah.
For example, Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test led me back to Hunter’s Hell Angels and so on.
Fiction I’m happy to recycle, on the whole.
Still told I have way too many books in the house though. Can you have too many books? Nah.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
We used to have a lot more books in the flat - but Mrs21 conducted a secret operation, taking books to the charity shops, including books of mineMuch to my family’s irritation, I never get rid of my non-fiction/music/popular culture books because I never know if I’m going to read something that’s going to require me to go back and cross-reference with a previous book.
For example, Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test led me back to Hunter’s Hell Angels and so on.
Fiction I’m happy to recycle, on the whole.
Still told I have way too many books in the house though. Can you have too many books? Nah.
it was only when I was looking for a particular book that she confessed. The secret operation is no more but I have started to offload fiction, mainly, to local charity shops.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Lonesome Dove is a book I started in paper form but never finished, as its in the 2.99 audiobook list this month and its nearly 37 hours I feel an impulse purchase coming on.
Having been struggling with disposal of my late parents huge collection of books and looking at clutter in general I appreciate the lack of shelfspace and dusting that audiobooks allow
Having been struggling with disposal of my late parents huge collection of books and looking at clutter in general I appreciate the lack of shelfspace and dusting that audiobooks allow
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
I don't have a policy on re-reading books, but I tend not to as there's always one I haven't read waiting to be picked up.
A few that spring to mind:
Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - I first read it as a 20 year old acidhead and thought so cool. Then I re-read it a few year ago and thought what a bunch of dicks.
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Trillogy - just as good the second time.
Some of Ian M Banks' Culture books - because who wouldn't want to spend more time in The Culture?
A few that spring to mind:
Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - I first read it as a 20 year old acidhead and thought so cool. Then I re-read it a few year ago and thought what a bunch of dicks.
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Trillogy - just as good the second time.
Some of Ian M Banks' Culture books - because who wouldn't want to spend more time in The Culture?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Tacitus, annals of imperial Rome
Pratt, the well of the unicorn
Crowley, aha
Nietzsche, twilight of the idols / the antichrist
Read and reread lovecraft and Robert e howard many times over the last 30 years
Oh and the earthsea trilogy, the dark is rising sequence
Pratt, the well of the unicorn
Crowley, aha
Nietzsche, twilight of the idols / the antichrist
Read and reread lovecraft and Robert e howard many times over the last 30 years
Oh and the earthsea trilogy, the dark is rising sequence
Out of orderWe used to have a lot more books in the flat - but Mrs21 conducted a secret operation, taking books to the charity shops, including books of mine
Some of my first editions are worth a fair bit - as my family are bored of hearing lol - so they wouldn’t touch them tbf.
Jennaonthebeach
What would Picard do?
if we're talking audio books I've just re listened to the Alan Partridge "autobiography" because it was very funny first time, and then very funny second time too.
Oh, and a thing I've been doing lately is buying audio books that I've already read in print form. So far have a few Dickens, Lord of the rings trilogy, Jerusalem by Alan Moore, Mothman Prophecies by John Keel, A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell, The Stand, Stephen King, Helliconia Summer and Spring by Brian aldiss, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus alone, Mervyn Peake, Colour of Magic, Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett.
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hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Kmowing me, Aleister Crowley...
Cloo
Banana for scale
I need to reread some Iain M, especially the first few I read. Particularly 'Inversions' as it was the first one I read and probably not an ideal one to read before having his other ones!
And to re-read Excession just because it's my favourite of his and I absolutely love all the ship minds in it.
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
As it happens, my friend who was reading the Kundera just got a copy of the Edible Woman, partly on my recommendation, perhaps all this is the universe's way of telling me I should re-read that next? Although I'm not sure if I have a copy of it, so might need to source one first.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
much like May Kashara I don't really find re-reads appealing as I did when younger because busyness and new stuff to read. But: keep the aspidistras flying, dune, watership down, lord of the rings, walrus and the warwolf, '48, a short story collection with 'Oddiputs' in it. Land of the Headless. Only non fic I can remember reading more than once is harry patch's bio, shirers 'rise and fall of the third reich' and EP thompsons 'making of the english working class', and that one only twice.
braindancer
not for long
Oooh yeah - might have an Iain M Banks fest this year. I was always completely stoned when reading the Culture novels before... would be nice to read with a straight head
. Googling suggests there are a couple I've never actually read. I don't have any recollection of reading Matter or Surface Detail.....
Cloo
Banana for scale
Oddiputs was in 'Sweets from a Stranger' collection by Nicholas Fiske; I read that several times when I was a kid and Oddiputs stuck with me as well!
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
I also re-read quite a lot. Homage to Catalonia, 1984, The Road to Wigan Pier and Down and Out In Paris and London all got read over and over in my teens and I still occasionally come back to the first two on that list even now.
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe has also been read a few times. I don't read much fiction - in fact I can't remember the last time I did - but that one would be up there. It was describing contemporary New York when I first read it and now it's a New York that I gather (never been) has largely vanished. Sadly, the theme of young African-American lives being somehow less worthy hasn't changed much.
Most recently, I've read Stasiland by Anna Funder three or four times in the last five years or so. Just a brilliant book. Not sure what that says about me, though.
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe has also been read a few times. I don't read much fiction - in fact I can't remember the last time I did - but that one would be up there. It was describing contemporary New York when I first read it and now it's a New York that I gather (never been) has largely vanished. Sadly, the theme of young African-American lives being somehow less worthy hasn't changed much.
Most recently, I've read Stasiland by Anna Funder three or four times in the last five years or so. Just a brilliant book. Not sure what that says about me, though.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
never re-read any of the brentford stuff but I did read them all and rate them fairly high.. Same with Tom Sharpe, altho I did re-read blott on the landscape .
I'm fairly sure there's at least one I've never read but I've intentionally never tried to read them all because there won't ever be a new one out now. Which is ridiculous, when I have such a bad memory that I often reread stuff by accident, but I do have an annoying habit of getting a few hundred pages in and then suddenly realising I have read something before and can now remember every detail of the rest of the book.Oooh yeah - might have an Iain M Banks fest this year. I was always completely stoned when reading the Culture novels before... would be nice to read with a straight head
Most of what I reread is either accidents like that, or if I've left it a while between books in a series and want to remind myself what happened in the last one(s).
The one thing I reread again and again is a collection of short stories which I probably like for the memory of discovering a whole new genre as much as the actual writing itself. I was a precocious and prolific reader as a kid and grew up watching stuff like star trek but for some reason I never, ever read any science fiction (possibly my local library did that thing of sticking it all on its own separate shelf, so I never noticed it before). Remembering how much I enjoyed both the reading itself of that first book, and the realisation of how much more there was out there to read now, still puts a massive smile on my face whenever I think about it. Still always find at least one story I'd completely forgotten was in there though, and I must've reread the whole thing a dozen times or more by now.
JimW
支那暗杀团
I re-read Earthsea last year and also thoroughly enjoyed it, plus the later additions she'd written in the intervening. Looking forward to kids being old enough to read it in their turn.
Alan Garner another one I've re-read, though his adult fiction mostly.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Anything I recommend/encourage my kids to read/watch is immediately rejected as being 'for old people'. Just have to make it available and hope they discover it in their own time...
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
I’m currently stuck in a groove of rereading historical fiction which I enjoyed as a small child. Leon Garfield, Rosemary Sutcliffe, Henry Treece, Cynthia Harnett. Not quite sure why.
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
I feel I should mention Pratchett and Banks so as not to make them feel left out... but I don't think any one of their books has met my >=10 threshold. Guards Guards I've probably read about eight or nine times - it's a real comfort read for me, just Fun throughout. The Use of Weapons is probably my favourite Banks book and I must have gone though that seven or eight times - I'm a sucker for any sort of split-personality/muddled timelines sort of thing, and the whole thing's just exquisitely put together.
Never a bad time IMHO. For me at least, Atwood's got a real knack with her writing for putting you in the headspace of her characters which makes for a very intimate read, and it's amazing that despite the book being written in the 60s, the attitudes therein are still easy recognisable today.
Never a bad time IMHO. For me at least, Atwood's got a real knack with her writing for putting you in the headspace of her characters which makes for a very intimate read, and it's amazing that despite the book being written in the 60s, the attitudes therein are still easy recognisable today.
Signal 11
also programmed for conversational english
I only manage about 10 a year so don't often re-read them anymore. My lists from the book threads show 4 re-reads in the last 6 years.
2018 - The Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels
2019 - The Imperial Stars - E.E. 'Doc' Smith & Stephen Goldin (read the series in school days)
2020 - Slapstick, or Lonesome No More - Kurt Vonnegut (pandemic-inspired re-read, have read several times)
2022 - The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
I'd like to re-read some of the Moorcock books again - Cornelius, Bastable and Dancers series especially.
Also want to re-read The Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman (chess strategy).
2018 - The Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels
2019 - The Imperial Stars - E.E. 'Doc' Smith & Stephen Goldin (read the series in school days)
2020 - Slapstick, or Lonesome No More - Kurt Vonnegut (pandemic-inspired re-read, have read several times)
2022 - The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
I'd like to re-read some of the Moorcock books again - Cornelius, Bastable and Dancers series especially.
Also want to re-read The Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman (chess strategy).
abe11825
Like to take a cement fix
All the people reading Crowley.. I've heard people talk about him, but I've never picked anything up. It's a name I know I should read up on and haven't for reasons I can't really explain (it's not a "can't be arsed" excuse, since I've read other stuff by other people that I probably shouldn't have. One of these years I will do something about it).
I think 1984 was one of those random books, along with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle that I had picked up ratty copies while in college, but not for a class. Just a side story. I ended up getting rid of them just as swiftly as I picked them up and read them. I should invest in a copy again.
In all my schooling, the "basics" / "classics" weren't part of the regular curricula - Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, anything Shakespeare... references are now lost on me because I've never read them. Another "can't explain it" bit since I keep picking up other standards. Yet, like I said, I've read Gatsby time and again for various classes, as well as Night, Death of a Salesman, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Scarlet Letter (as previously mentioned via my original message).
I have two Iain Banks in my collection of hoarding. I would have three, but The Wasp Factory was sold a few years back. It was one of those books frogwoman suggested I pick up, ages ago.
At the rate books are being banned in the US, I probably should get my hands on copies of some of the ones talked about, before it's totally illegal to be in a bookstore all together.
I think 1984 was one of those random books, along with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle that I had picked up ratty copies while in college, but not for a class. Just a side story. I ended up getting rid of them just as swiftly as I picked them up and read them. I should invest in a copy again.
In all my schooling, the "basics" / "classics" weren't part of the regular curricula - Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, anything Shakespeare... references are now lost on me because I've never read them. Another "can't explain it" bit since I keep picking up other standards. Yet, like I said, I've read Gatsby time and again for various classes, as well as Night, Death of a Salesman, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Scarlet Letter (as previously mentioned via my original message).
I have two Iain Banks in my collection of hoarding. I would have three, but The Wasp Factory was sold a few years back. It was one of those books frogwoman suggested I pick up, ages ago.
At the rate books are being banned in the US, I probably should get my hands on copies of some of the ones talked about, before it's totally illegal to be in a bookstore all together.
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