Which books have you read the most cover to cover?

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2488110]

Franny and Zooey - 6 times
The Birthday Party - 4 times
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - 8 times
Foundation - about 10 times
Foundation and Empire - about 6 or 7 times
Second Foundation - about 12 times (my favourite novel)

[Anonymous No.2488119]

>ketchup on flutes
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>2001
Ishiggo

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2488122]

I like that book that's centre bottom, that is simply called 'Food'. Well, at least you know what you're buying.

[Anonymous No.2488125]

>re-reading books
>not having a "to read" pile in the hundreds and lacking the time to re-read anything ever because there's always new and exciting stuff you've never read before

[Anonymous No.2488127]

Shit nigga there be too many books to waste yo time readin dem twice

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2488128]

thats depressing
goddamn it sunhawk, go out and get some fresh air before i come over there and fuck your sandnigger mother

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2488131]

>>2488127

I feel sad for people how never reread, at all. Some books are so great they have to be read 5+ times.

[Anonymous No.2488133]

>>2488125
This a lot

[Anonymous No.2488134]

>>2488125
some things demand re-reading, and some things you want to experience the pleasure of again

it helps that i don't really care about the idea of reading as obligation tho

[Anonymous No.2488138]

I have a lot of these books!

Also, the Time-Life "Good Cook" series, which I recommend to all,

[Anonymous No.2488150]

>reading a book more than once

How's not knowing how to read working out for you?

[Anonymous No.2488192]

I read the whole amber series once every 5 years or so. Takes me a month usually.

It will be the fifth time I read them.

[Anonymous No.2489716]

Honestly?

The Satanic Bible- 5 or 6 times
Slaughterhouse 5- 2 or 3
Paradise Lost- about 3
A Sand County Almanac- 2 or 3
Song of Myself- 5

[Anonymous No.2489753]

if the majority of /lit/ stopped treating books like some sort of intellectual pokemon card collection they would realise that re-reading something has a lot of benefits

A lot of people tend to read their favourite novel or novella once a year almost as a sort of pleasurable meditation, I guess the equivalent would be watching that film you love one more time.

Not sure of how many times but the ones I tend to revisit from time to time aren't that fancy: Chekov's stories, Notes from the Underground, The Symposium, Metamorphosis...these are things I just enjoy reading.

Mostly though I revisit plays and poetry, I like Olson, Pound, Williams, Keats, Milton, Beowulf, Death of a Salesman, Marlowe, some Shakespeare, Hardy's poetry...I have a solid and varied base of things I always want to come back to when I get tired of blasting through my reading pile...that way I feel much more refreshed when I get back to it.

[Anonymous No.2489766]

Read Anna Karenina 5 times.

Read Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius every single day this past summer.

[Anonymous No.2489772]

I'm going to try to finish In Search of Lost time this summer and hopefully read it every year or so. At least every other year.

Shit's mindblowingly amazing.

Also, I always place post-it notes in good passages and I reread them after I've finished the book or just pick up and read some glory.

[Anonymous No.2489935]

>>2489772

I read ISOLT twice and re-reading bits and pieces all the time. Would love to read it in french at least once, so I'm studying french in order to do that.

[Anonymous No.2489956]

>>2488125
iknow that feel

[Anonymous No.2490281]

rarely re-read stuff but the books i've reread various times are Homage to Catalonia, great gatsby, siddhartha and starship troopers (i was really into SF when i was younger)

[Anonymous No.2490305]

When I was younger, I read each of the Harry Potter books at least three times. I also read each installment in the Redwall series (up to number 19 or so) twice. My copies are so dogeared that I'm afraid they might fall apart should I attempt to remove them from my bookshelf.

[Anonymous No.2490314]

>>2488110
Franny And Zooey is shit, half of it is just that one kid in the bathtub.

[Anonymous No.2490443]

The Crying of Lot 49 - 2 times
The Skin of Our Teeth - 2 times
Hamlet - 2 times
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - 2 times

I don't reread shit.

High Fidelity - 3 times

[| Olivier, c'est moi! | No.2490509]

>>2488131
Re-reading is the real reading.

>>2489753
Spot on, each year I re-read & re-watch my fav books & movies.

You reach levels of depth, when re-reading a novel, you wouldn't have thought possible before, hence the re-read.

[Anonymous No.2491608]

I rarely ever read a book multiple times, but I do read short stories up to 4 times if I like it. Like the works of Poe are my favorite, especially Tell-Tale Heart, it is literary genius.

[Anonymous No.2491613]

THINK YOU'VE DONE THIS THREAD BEFORE SUNNY

[Anonymous No.2491619]

I re-read everything that I deem to be intellectually valuable. But JDATE is my go-to entertaining book that I read when I have the flu and whatnot.

Okay, new question:

For those who read for more than entertainment, do you find your first or second reading to be more intellectually heavy, and which is more enjoyable?

[Anonymous No.2491632]

>>2491619

I'd say that first is more entertaining, to say the least, but on second reading I am apt to spot more imperceptible details which may result in changing my opinion of the book.