Do any of you read books more than once? I am not a re reader as a rule but there are a few books that I have enjoyed so much I would happily read them again. I thought I would start this thread so we could share our 3 top reads of all time - I’m always on the lookout for a good book.
Its very hard to pick my top 3 but I think at the moment I would narrow it down to these
The Robe by Lloyd C Douglas
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Now I’ve put those down lots more are jumping into my head but I think I’ll stick with those
I never re read. Life’s too short and there are constantly a million books in my wish list that need to be read!! Haha I do read a lot, pretty much every day and will happily spend a cold rainy day curled up on the sofa with a book.
My 3 ‘favourites’ aren’t actually in order but at the moment:
Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman
Abarat- Clive Barker (I want to live there!!)
Time Riders series- Alex Scarrow
I love my books to just be one big fun adventure that ideally take me away from this regular mundane world. Anything ‘true-story’ or just normal in style & I’m bored even before I start! Haha
Oh gosh, I re-read books so often. I have just re-read the long earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter redy for starting the newest one
But I thnk my top three most read are
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S.Lewis even as an adult it’s one of my favourites
The Magician - Raymond E. Feist (along with all his other books, I felt lost when I finished the last one as I spent a big part of my life reading about those characters )
The colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett along with all his other diskworld novels
But after reading this thread I’m thinking of re visiting my David Gemmel and Neil Gaiman collections again I haven’t spent any time with Druss the legend or Captain Shakespeare for a while
Cant say Ive reread a book but I hate to get rid of them if I liked it.
Wuthering Heights-one of the Brontes
American Psycho- Brett Easton Ellis
TraumeNouvelle/Eyes Wide Shut- Arther Schnitzler(I think, or I made the name up).
And special shout out for the last chapter of The Time Machine which will eternally sen shivers down my spine.
I read some Meave Binchy before I fell down the sci-fi/fantasy rabbit hole, I think I remember Quentins I’ll have to see if I still have it in my e-library
Picking 3 is really difficult…
in no particular order
The Duncton Wood Series…William Horwood
Any Terry Pratchett
The Clan of the Cave Bear Series…Jean M Auel
That’s not including all the childrens books I often re-read or A Christmas Carol that I read every year.
Ooh! The Woman in Black - is that as scary as the film? I didn’t sleep for a few nights after watching it.
I think my three would be:
Return of the Native and Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy ( I get so frustrated by the cruel twists of fate and hope each time that I read them that things will turn out differently - although I know they can’t!). The third would be The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
I also like the Kate Morton novels but think I will have to try some of the ones mentioned above that I haven’t come across.
My top three books are: 1, Dealing with athletes foot by Darrel Itchytoe,
2, There’s a hunchchback in my bedroom! by Stella Droop
3, Making candles from ear wax a Blue Peter production.
I recommend them all.
Lord of the Rings seems to be getting a lot of votes here. I loved the Hobbit which I read when I was about 12 but never managed to get into Lord of the Rings so it has remained unread - can’t say I’ve particularly been drawn to watch the film either although my daughter loves it. Perhaps its one I should try again sometime now I am xx yrs older!
I really love horror, but only in book form, I cannot watch it, I’m a get behind the sofa on horror films, but loved Hannibal Lecter, when it gets scarry you can shut the book and read it another day.
No sci-fi fantasy here - never really got on with it.
All fun and games til someone looses an eye by Chris Brookmyre (with the sacred art of stealing a close second favourite of his, I can re read them over and over), some thing by Carl Hiaasen (lucky you, strip tease, double whammy I can’t decide), fast cakes by Mary Berry (I can never remember all of the recipe and there are a number of good ones in there so it always takes a while to decide what to bake). I would re read my Pratchett but they are currently on loan to my parents, I really should get them to bring them all back next time they visit.
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