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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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kizzie · 08/10/2007 21:04

Oh goodness - I forgot Secret Garden. And I read it to DS recently and he loved it!

kizzie · 08/10/2007 21:07

slightly off topic - but just raising a slightly ashamed hand. i havent managed to get through one of the Harry Potter books even once. I just dont get them. My 2 DS love them. One in particular just rattles through them and reads them over and over again. Ive really really tried but they just dont do anything for me.

Vulgar · 09/10/2007 09:07

I've just started reading the L-shaped room after it was recommended on this thread.

And I'm loving it!!!

the housework can wait!

MaryAnnSingletomb · 09/10/2007 09:32

oh I'm pleased Vulgar - it's made me want to read it again now !
I'd also like to re read Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice

CatIsSleepy · 09/10/2007 09:42

Have just re-read Atonement. It was fab.

Have read Silas Marner about three or four times and I always love it. I"ll read it again if I can find it! (too many books in our house...)

Have read Middlemarch twice, and I'm sure I'll read it again at some point.

I read New York Trilogy by Paul Auster several times and still never understood it, but was intrigued by it. Kept thinking I'd get it next time round.

Have read The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe at least twice too...or maybe three times...So funny and poignant too. Must re-read the Closed Circle (the sequel) again sometime too...

milkyJammy · 09/10/2007 09:44

No "great" literature (sorry! to the author) but one I love to reread when I want something fun and light is Dancing to the Piper, by Kate something-beginning-with-F (Fenton I think). Enjoyable plot with enough to it that it took several rereads before I remembered exactly how it all worked out.

MaryAnnSingletomb · 09/10/2007 09:51

CatIsSleepy - I really want to read Atonement, was hoping we might do it for book group, and love The Rotters Club

CatIsSleepy · 09/10/2007 10:04

MAS- you should definitely read Atonement. Think it's one of Ian McEwan's best books. He's so good at getting right into people's heads (having said that I think he'd written some duffers too...didn't like Amsterdam or Saturday much at all)

margoandjerry · 09/10/2007 10:13

Am going to be annoying and say don't read Atonement - read the Go Between by LP Hartley instead. Same story, better writer, imho.

spookybatoscar · 09/10/2007 10:28

To Kill a Morkinbird, just fantastic, it changes everytime I read it

CatIsSleepy · 09/10/2007 12:20

read both!

spookybatoscar · 09/10/2007 13:20

Morkingbird...durrh Mockingbird

Note to self, preview messages before posting

BadZelda · 09/10/2007 13:35

things I reread frequently:
'Stand on Zanzibar' (john brunner)
'Foucault's Pendulum' (umberto eco)

  • anything by haruki murakami
  • anthologies (e.g. short japanese fiction, gothic tales, etc)
BadZelda · 09/10/2007 13:35

and a little off-topic, but there's VERY few films that stand a second look I find.

margoandjerry · 09/10/2007 13:42

You are right, catissleepy. I even annoyed myself with my last post!

spookybatoscar · 09/10/2007 13:45

BadZelda...do you find there are films you can just watch loads tho? and no matter what point you encounter them? I find LA Confidential. American Beauty Almost Famous and Usual Suspects just grb me everytime

BadZelda · 09/10/2007 14:06

Hmm yes I agree - not with those specific examples, but a couple of others spring to mind.

slowreader · 09/10/2007 14:15

Out of Africa- Karen Blixen. I have read it so many times.

CatIsSleepy · 09/10/2007 14:27

LOL @ margoandjerry...get a grip!

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tyaca · 09/10/2007 15:04

hey bad zelda, i don't have the concentration to watch films, and find when i do i never remember them

i think i've watched 5 films a hundred times and either havent watched any others or just camn't remember!

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clerkKent · 10/10/2007 12:36

badzelda, I may be the only other person here who owns Stand on Zanzibar. I must have last read it over 20 years ago - I don't remember there being anything special about it - can you remind me why it is worth looking at again?

MaryAnnSingletomb · 10/10/2007 14:29

I've just remembered 'Madam,will you Talk' by Mary Stewart - first given to me as a 12 yr old by family friend - it's a cracking and thrilling read with a fab car chase through France - totally gripping !!

time4tea · 10/10/2007 19:06

Doh! Middlemarch, of course.

Botbot · 12/10/2007 15:05

Tyaca, I'm the same with films. I quite like going to the pictures, but watching DVDs or films on telly at home just doesn't work - I either drop off or find myself absent-mindedly getting up to do something else. But I can sit and read a book, motionless, for hours.

Feel a bit left out when people have conversations about films, but have accepted that I just like reading words more than looking at moving pictures. Do worry that people think I'm being an intellectual snob though - not the case at all!

Maybe I should start a thread, or a Facebook group - 'people who, unlike 99% of the population, aren't that bothered about films'!

MaryAnnSingletomb · 12/10/2007 16:17

Botbot - I hardly ever seem to go to the cinema - when I do I always think how great it is and how much I like it and why don't I do this more often, then don't go again for ages....
I also can't watch dvds at home or really watch films on tv - just haven't the patience or capacity to invest the time anym ore,which is a bit sad.