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Post by Jesse on Aug 31, 2014 10:16:12 GMT -5
Books I've reread the most, period -- Good idea for a list. Mine would probably be - On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Hugo Winners volumes 1 & 2
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
- Jim Morrison's books of poetry
- The Lords, and The New Creatures
- The American Night
- Wilderness
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 31, 2014 12:18:23 GMT -5
Books I've read the most (not including funnybooks)
I'd have to think...but Fahrenheit 451 is number one with a bullet.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 13:14:16 GMT -5
... but we don't want you hurting yourself. |
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Post by Jesse on Aug 31, 2014 13:29:18 GMT -5
I haven't owned a copy of Fahrenheit 451 since the 8th or 9th grade. I would love to reread it sometime.
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Post by coke & comics on Sept 1, 2014 22:13:00 GMT -5
I haven't owned a copy of Fahrenheit 451 since the 8th or 9th grade. I would love to reread it sometime. Firemen broke into my house and burned my copy. Was there ever a time when firemen put out fires rather than starting them? |
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Post by coke & comics on Sept 1, 2014 22:18:47 GMT -5
I'm a pretty slow reader when it comes to pictureless books, so I rarely reread, as there is too much I haven't read. Comics I reread frequently.
I can think of only a handful I've read twice. In fact, I started using audiobooks and found it a questionable format, so used it largely to reread books I had read and loved before (Dune, Foundation, The Dispossessed).
Honestly the only book I can say for certain I have read more than twice is Lord of the Rings, which I have read through in its entirety some 4 or so times, and read through individual chapters of more times than I can count.
I have read Chronicles of Narnia in its entirety at least twice, and am pretty sure I have read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe more than that in my youth.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 2, 2014 8:12:06 GMT -5
Books I've read the most (not including funnybooks) I'd have to think...but Fahrenheit 451 is number one with a bullet. I haven't even read it once. All my five rereads of novels in the last 5 years of my life here would probably trump all other rereads in novels prior to, and be all Charles Bukowski 1. Women 2. Hollywood 3. Pulp 4. Post Office I don't think I've read Factoutm or Ham on Rye more than once. |
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Post by DubipR on Sept 2, 2014 9:00:48 GMT -5
My Top 10 Favorite TV cars (Non-Animated):
1. The Batmobile (Batman) 2. Ferrari 308 GTS (Magnum PI) 3. Pontiac Firebird Espirit (The Rockford Files) 4. Black Beauty/1966 Chrysler Imperial (Green Hornet) 5. 1975 Gran Torino (Starsky & Hutch) 6. Ferrari Daytona Spider (Miami Vice) 7. Monkeemobile/ Pontiac GTO (The Monkees) 8. KITT/Pontiac Trans-Am (Knight Rider) 9. Lotus Seven (The Prisoner) 10. 1961 Corvette (Route 66)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 2, 2014 10:56:06 GMT -5
Not a bad list. But it doesn't include Joe Mannix's 1968 Dodge Dart GTS 340 convertible. And thus is invalid.
And I'll add that while the Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino was a cool looking car it had a 351 Windsor in it which was an absolute SHIT engine.
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Post by dupersuper on Sept 2, 2014 21:13:30 GMT -5
In honor of the 40th season of the show (and Grantland's recent bracket contest) My Top 40 Cast Members in Saturday Night Live History (and it is hopelessly biased to the 1980-1995 era) 31. Victoria Jackson So sad she lost her mind... |
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Post by dupersuper on Sept 2, 2014 21:15:53 GMT -5
The General Lee was a favourite of mine as a kid too young to be disgusted with the confederate flag...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2014 22:39:38 GMT -5
In honor of the 40th season of the show (and Grantland's recent bracket contest) My Top 40 Cast Members in Saturday Night Live History (and it is hopelessly biased to the 1980-1995 era) 31. Victoria Jackson So sad she lost her mind... Not sure that she lost her mind per se. Rather, apparently the ditzy idiot character she always portrayed was actually her all along. Dennis Miller, however, apparently did indeed lose his mind. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 2, 2014 22:43:01 GMT -5
I think the book I've re-read more than any other was a slightly abridged edition of Dracula that I read several times as a young person - I think I was in grade 4 the first time.
But if different translations count, it would probably be the Iliad - I've read at least 6 different English versions I can think of off the top of my head over the course of the last 30+ years. Maybe 4 or 5 of The Odyssey.
For PKD, it would be VALIS, which I think I've read 3 times. I want to read and re-read a lot of PKD in the near future, but there's still quite a few older SF books that I've been putting off for too long that I want to get to first.
Speaking of older SF, I've re-read some ERB books more than twice, mostly from the Barsoom series. A Fighting Man of Mars would be in first place, probably read that 4 or 5 times; next would be The Mastermind of Mars and the first trilogy, Princess, Gods, & Warlord.
Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness I've read I think 3 times.
That reminds me - there were a lot of things that I never re-read from cover to cover, but that I used to browse through for several months or even years after finishing, re-reading favourite sections: the first three books of Zelazny's Amber series (there was a slight gap until I found copies of the last two and by then my fascination had waned somewhat), The Once and Future King, The Mote in God's Eye, The Lord of the Rings, the first three Dune books all come to mind and there were probably others I'm forgetting.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2014 22:51:01 GMT -5
Come to think of it, there's some version of The Iliad for younger readers that I read at least twice as a kid. Loved it.
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Post by berkley on Sept 2, 2014 23:07:49 GMT -5
I don't know if this is the one you mean, but there was a guy named WHD Rouse who came out with prose version of both the Iliad and The Odyssey in the 1930s. He was of that same era and I think class as people like Tolkien and these translations read like Homer in the style of The Hobbit or The Wind in the Willows. As I remember them, it worked surprisingly well with The Odyssey but wasn't as successful to my ears when applied to the Iliad, which I think is really too unremittingly stark and violent for that kind of conversational, cosy fire-side story manner.
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