Which book have you re-read the most?

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Re: Which book have you re-read the most?

Post by rachelbean » Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:52 pm

Făkünamę wrote:Ernest Hemingway - Finca Vigia collection probably 3 or 4 times.
Notes from the Underground - 3 or 4 times
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Crime and Punishment - 3 or 4 times

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Re: Which book have you re-read the most?

Post by SteveB » Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:12 pm

Not much of a repeat reader. I don't think I've ever read a book more than twice.

Like umm...Le Petit Prince, first in French then in English.

Ahh then there's Catcher in the Rye. Some Shakespeare, Hamlet and Twelfth Night, I think.
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Post by JimC » Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:47 pm

Probably Lord of the Rings...
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Post by Svartalf » Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:52 pm

Wow, I don't think I've read through that one more than twice, and one doesn't count as it was in French translation and an incomplete edition (somebody just left all the appendices aside)
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Re: Which book have you re-read the most?

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Mon Nov 25, 2013 12:12 am

JimC wrote:Probably Lord of the Rings...
I read LOTR first when I was 7 (probably 8 when I finished.) After that I reread it at least once a year until I was 16 and then once again at 18 and again at about 24. Not read it since but that all adds up to 10 or 11 times.

I am sure that there were books I read much more than that though. Stuff like Noddy and Dr Seuss that I would read pretty much daily when I was 4!
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Re: Which book have you re-read the most?

Post by Jason » Mon Nov 25, 2013 12:15 am

Return of the King gave me nightmares of catapulted heads for a week when I read it as a kid.

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Post by Animavore » Mon Nov 25, 2013 12:51 am

I don't know how many times I've read Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:59 am

Svartalf wrote:Wow, I don't think I've read through that one more than twice, and one doesn't count as it was in French translation and an incomplete edition (somebody just left all the appendices aside)
I've done LoTR twice. Last time was probably 15 years ago. It's due for a reread soon.
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:00 am

Communist Manifesto. I read it every night before bed.
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Post by Jason » Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:09 am

I forgot about how much I used to be into Nietzsche.. If you count audiobook listenings, I've probably 'read' a lot of his writing several times over.

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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:17 am

The Complete Works of Stalin.
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Post by Audley Strange » Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:19 am

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rEvolutionist wrote:The Complete Works of Stalin.
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Re: Which book have you re-read the most?

Post by klr » Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:20 pm

I've read 1984 a lot of times as well, but I couldn't put a number on it. I rarely re-read books from start to finish. I dip in and out, reading sections of varying length, sometimes hundreds of pages.
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Re: Which book have you re-read the most?

Post by PsychoSerenity » Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:51 am

I think there where quite a few that I would have re-read many times when I was a kid, but I can't remember any specifically - but they'd probably still be on some shelf in my parents' house.

Certainly one of the first three Harry Potter books, since I re-read most of them each time a new one was coming out.

I've read most of the discworld novels twice and some three times.

But I'm concentrating now on as many different books as I can, so there won't be many more re-reads at least for a while.
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