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cuncuna 
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 Topic: ¿How many times?.
Posted: June 15 2007 at 23:33 |
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I think I can read "The Martian Chronicles" forever. I'm reading it right now, I lost count of how many times I read it before. ¿Any favourite piece of literature that you simply can't stop reading?.
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The Doctor
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Posted: June 15 2007 at 23:36 |
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I loved the Martian Chronicles. Great stuff. I was actually first introduced to it through the miniseries back in 79 or 80 with Rock Hudson. Have seen that several times on DVD and have read the book quite a few times too.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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bluetailfly
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 00:37 |
 cuncuna wrote:
I think I can read "The Martian Chronicles" forever. I'm reading it right now, I lost count of how many times I read it before. ¿Any favourite piece of literature that you simply can't stop reading?. |
I loved the "Martian Chronicles," what a classic. I read Melville's "Moby Dick" and "Benito Cereno" about every 2 or three years or so. Also, Whitman's "Song of Myself." I love that poem.
Edited by bluetailfly - June 16 2007 at 00:37
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"The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle."
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cuncuna
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 10:53 |
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I have the same thing about Juan Rulfo's "Pedro Páramo" and "Historias de cronopios y de famas" by Julio Cortázar.
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Jared
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 14:01 |
George Orwell's 1984 is a masterpiece of literature, which bears up to being read many times over.... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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el böthy
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:09 |
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I think there is no book I have read twice... maybe Hamlet, but once was for school... so I didnt read it jejejeje
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Vompatti
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:23 |
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Unless poetry counts I can only think of two books I've read more than once: Orwell's 1984 and Kafka's Castle.
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Komodo dragon
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:25 |
Albert Camus L'etranger (The Stranger) & Gilbert Adairs Innocents 
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Vompatti
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:28 |
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Now I remember, I've read that Camus one twice too.
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Komodo dragon
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:49 |
Vompatti wrote:
Now I remember, I've read that Camus one twice too.
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Sure you are ! it is THE BEST Camus work !!! 
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:56 |
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^I wouldn't know, as I've only read The Stranger and The Fall.
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Komodo dragon
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 17:04 |
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^I wouldn't know, as I've only read The Stranger and The Fall.
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Ok ! Than you must trust me .... or we can make some poll ?
But I don’t think that is going to be a popular one 
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 21:29 |
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The first three Dune books - I've read those several times over.
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What?
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cuncuna
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:23 |
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bluetailfly
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:37 |
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^ Well, I think it's morphing into other art forms---screenplays, video games, etc.
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"The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle."
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cuncuna
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:39 |
bluetailfly wrote:
^ Well, I think it's morphing into other art forms---screenplays, video games, etc. |
Still, this times are much to functional in terms of art development...
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bluetailfly
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Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:46 |
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Personally, I think literature will always be around for those who take art seriously. Reading may be something fewer and fewer people do in their leisure time, but there will always be people who are turned on by great literature. I mean, in what other art form are you confronted so intimately and so completely with someone else's imagination? It's a form of magic, really.
Edited by bluetailfly - June 16 2007 at 23:48
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Komodo dragon
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Posted: June 17 2007 at 18:44 |
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Literature is quickly become some sort of antique item.[/QUOTE]
Yes!!! And maybe it is better to stay that way because
than Hollywood people
can't find it and ruined it in so many ways!!!!!!!
hate hollywood crap
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The T
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Posted: June 17 2007 at 19:20 |
I only read books once... the only case of double-reading is Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I have read four times... (I'm a fan of the Count...   )..... Movies, on the other hand.... Good idea for a new thread!
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Posted: June 17 2007 at 19:29 |
I've read Watership Down many times. Couldn't get enough of it.
The James Herriot series I've also read about 5 or 6 times the whole lot of them.
William series I've read over and over again (when I was a child of course, but I still dip in)
PG wodehouses Jeeves books I like to reread also.
Asimov also.
Edited by Snow Dog - June 17 2007 at 19:31
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