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it;'s best the twelfth time - re-reads!

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tyaca · 28/09/2007 23:41

ok --- what have you read sooooo many times??

Cold Comfort Farm poss tops my list

Though i've been reading antonia forest non-stop for twenty years

my sister swears that kids author, cynthia voight, peaks on a twelfth read ;-)

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Dior · 06/10/2007 19:08

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fullmoonfiend · 06/10/2007 19:07

potato factory - have read vanity fair a couple of times - thnaks for reminding me! I might dig it out for next to re-read

Dior · 06/10/2007 19:01

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fullmoonfiend · 06/10/2007 19:01

BTW, I capture the castle is lovely comfort food reading

Dior · 06/10/2007 18:57

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fullmoonfiend · 06/10/2007 18:56

God yes, love it! (only read it twice though.,..)

Dior · 06/10/2007 18:53

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fullmoonfiend · 06/10/2007 18:52

I'm dying to see the film, as I think it will be a visual experience, wven if it isn't faifthful t the book.

Currently reading Cold Mountain and actually want to see the film now, having not fancied it at all in the past.

Dior · 06/10/2007 18:49

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Dior · 06/10/2007 18:47

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fullmoonfiend · 06/10/2007 18:46

so what do you think of it, Dior?
( I tend to like books which make me weep at some point...)

Mousie · 06/10/2007 18:44

A little princess

The Little White Horse

anyone remember the Sue barton nursing books! loved them as a child..

also Dickens - Our Mutual Friend, Bleak House and David Copperfield I think are my top three. Dombey and Son very good too, sad...

Austen - yes.. Pride and Prejudice is perfect

will now go and seek out Tales of the City and revisit Anne of Green Gables

used to love the Little Women/ Good wives stuff but wonder if it is incredibly nauseating now..

what a nostalgic thread.

Dior · 06/10/2007 18:41

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filthymindedvixen · 06/10/2007 18:38

more votes for Cold Comfort Farm
Tales of the city

but also - the books I can never get rid of as I read themover and over...

Atonement - Mcewan
Birdsong - Faulks
Jude the Obscure - Thos Hardy
Precious Bane - Mary Webb (one day I'll meet someone else who loves this, I will!)
Lords and Ladies - Pratchett
His dark Materials trilogy - Pullman
Chocolat Joanne Harris
Lark Rise to Candleford -
(and James Herrot books for my ultimate copmfort reading)
I Capture the Castle - Dodi Smith
The Doves of Venus - Olivia Manning
Our Spoons came from Woolworths - Barbara Comyns

Dior · 06/10/2007 18:27

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FuriousGeorge · 06/10/2007 18:25

Up The Junction-Nell Dun
Holidays In Hell-P J O'Rourke
I Claudius & Claudius the God-R Graves.

Arghh,dd1 needs her bottom wiping-back later.

slayerette · 06/10/2007 15:49

I'm so glad Georgette Heyer got at least one mention on here - she is my ultimate comfort read. Can't count how many times I've read The Grand Sophy!

potatofactory · 06/10/2007 14:27

Can't believe no-one has mentioned Vanity Fair - it's BRILLIANT and I have read it three times (it's quite large). And Wilkie Collins always good for a re-read - or Dickens, especially Nicholas Nickleby. As is obvious I like BIG books with lots of chapters so it's not all over too quickly...

Philomytha · 06/10/2007 13:36

Donk - you're my book-twin! I love all those books. Well, I haven't read the Father Christmas Letters, but judging from the rest of my Tolkien-love I imagine I'd like it. And Bujold - I adore her books. Apparently she's starting work on a new Vorkosigan novel once she finishes the Sharing Knife series.

I'd add Dorothy L Sayers to my regular re-read list, and Jane Austen. When I'm ill, the Cadfael books make fantastic comfort reading, as do PG Wodehouse and Georgette Heyer. Oh, and Harry Potter, naturally.

I reread everything, though; I don't feel I've really read a book unless I've read it more than once, but these are books I reread a lot.

Hels67 · 06/10/2007 13:08

I regularly re-read

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

My family and other animals (Gerald Durrell)

Penmarric by Susan Howatch

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler (in fact, anything by Anne Tyler is great to re-read)

I usually read detective novels and have read so many that often I can't remember whodunnit, so I can read them with pleasure again

MaryAnnSingletomb · 06/10/2007 12:42

Moira !

MaryAnnSingletomb · 06/10/2007 12:41

Vulgar - the Country Child is very atmospheric and lovely - especially the Christmas chapters - I always love re reading those when it's wintery !

MaryAnnSingletomb · 06/10/2007 12:40

tyaca - or what about Fanny ? or what was Linda's poor baby called ?

Donk · 06/10/2007 11:30

Lord of the Rings - I've lost count of how many times I have read it.
The Dark is Rising (every December)
The Father Christmas Letters by Tolkien - I'm really looking forward to sharing these with DS
Anything by Lois McMaster Bujold, especially if I'm in need of a comfort read.

Pekkala · 06/10/2007 09:02

In the run up to Christmas, I always read The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper and The Box of Delights by John Masefield - they always make me think of my childhood Christmases, snuggled up in front of the fire reading. Aaah!

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