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

[tyaca]

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 ;-)

oh - and Anthony Holden's Big Deal.

it's about poker

c'mon MNetters - someone out there must have read it too...???

The Magus by John Fowles....every time I read it I get something else from it.

All the Austens - I re-read them all about every 18 months.

"The Lord Of The Rings" - keep meaning to re-read again (7th time) but armed with a packet of highlighters. Ditto King's "Dark Tower" series.

Some re-reads are just for toal comfort-value - "Ballet Shoes" being my favourite for if I'm feeling cold, ill or just fed-up.

I'm on the third cycle of "A Dance to the Music of Time", but it takes me about a decade to get through it. DD is cycling through Harry Potter books in about 2 months.

the early Penny Vincenzi novels; anything by Susan Howatch; Jane Austen ; The Lord of the Rings bookshelves stuffed with books I hav e read loads of time before

stephen king IT think it reminds me off been in my late teens

the railway children

oh yes, Cold Comfort Farm - fab,fab,fab
Any Armistead Maupin Tales of the City
and I often re read Alison Uttley's The Country Child

ballet shoes! my first real love as a book when i was a child....i had a'put together back to front' copy that my gran got from work- (she worked at some kind of publishers)...i had it for years before i had to replace it. I never did Ballet, was SUCH an old fashioned book, but so much of it stcks with me, years and years later...{smile]

I often read Three Men in a Boat when there's nothing else. Sometimes I cry with laughter at J's delivery and other times I think he comes across as a complete whinger and I have to put the book away again after a couple of chapters.

I second Tales of the City - I must have read them about thirty times.

Pride and Prejudice.

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night - Scott Fitzgerald - I read them one after another every couple of years and have done for years.

I've also reread the Tales of the City books an embarrassing number of times.

wheresthehamster - I totally agree about jerome k jerome, you are so right

I love meeting other people who love Tales of the City - it's like meeting really good friends you didn't know!

I really enjoyed the "Michael Tolliver Lives" sequel that was out this year - like meeting up with old friends.

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
An Instant in the Wind and A Dry White Season by Andre Brink
The Testament by John Grisham

Agree about Cold Comfort Farm. Also the Mapp and Lucia series by EF Benson. And Rebecca.

here here tales of the city. reckon they've only got five re-reads in each of them though - i know them too well now!

when i read ballet shoes as a kid, i used to skip the first chapter about great uncle matthew, now its one of the only ones that i bits that i can read without feeling i know every sentence inside out.

excellent to know how so many love Tales of the City !!

quite distressed to notice an entire set of Armistead Maupin in the Cancer Research sho[p today - how can someone want to get rid of them ?? hope someone buy them and falls in love with them.

Diana by R F Delderfield

NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRINCESS

It's a beautiful story of childhood love, turning into friendship as the main protagonists get on with their lives, and back to love again.

I first read it on a coach trip from Sheffield to Bordeaux, the first time I could read on a bus without being sick (the story was so good, I didn't even think about it)

Read it again when in hospital, and dig it out now whenever I feel depressed.

Beautifully written, descriptive and evocative.

Think I might read "Ballet Shoes" in the bath tonight - am in need of comfort!

I thought of another one - "Of Mice And Men" - on the surface it is so simple but it is such a muti-layered novel and I always find something else in it - and it always, always makes me cry.

clumsymum, big billing, i will take your reccomdendation and get hold of a copy

janeite - the bath is the perfect place for ballet shoes but was made to do of mice and men at school and hated it!!

I've been to library today and borrowed Tales of the City - will get back on here when I've finished it. (have never heard of it!)

hope you like it lucylala !

Anything by Robertson Davis
Cold Comfort Farm.
Austen
Christopher Brookmyre, Jasper Fforde, though I only came across these authors in the last 10 years (Fforde in teh last two)
Iain Banks and Iain M Bank