¿How many times?.
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Topic: ¿How many times?.
Posted By: cuncuna
Subject: ¿How many times?.
Date 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?. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date 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. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 00:37
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. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
cuncuna wrote:Posted By: cuncuna
Date 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. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Jared
Date 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.... ------------- 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 |
Posted By: el böthy
Date 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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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:23
| Unless poetry counts I can only think of two books I've read more than once: Orwell's 1984 and Kafka's Castle. |
Posted By: Komodo dragon
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:25
Albert Camus L'etranger (The Stranger) & Gilbert Adairs Innocents  ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:28
| Now I remember, I've read that Camus one twice too. |
Posted By: Komodo dragon
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:49
Sure you are ! it is THE BEST Camus work !!!  -------------
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:56
| ^I wouldn't know, as I've only read The Stranger and The Fall. |
Posted By: Komodo dragon
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 17:04
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 By: Dean
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 21:29
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The first three Dune books - I've read those several times over. ------------- What? |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:23
Literature is quickly become some sort of antique item. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date 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. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:39
Still, this times are much to functional in terms of art development... ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date 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. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Komodo dragon
Date Posted: June 17 2007 at 18:44
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[/QUOTE] Literature is quickly become some sort of antique item.[/QUOTE] Yes!!! And maybe it is better to stay that way because
than hate hollywood crap
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Posted By: The T
Date 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 By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 17 2007 at 19:29
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: June 17 2007 at 19:33
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I've read Tolkiens Silmarillian several times, as well as Stephan Donaldsons Thomas Covenant chronicles (1st, 2nd and the 1st book in the last chronicles, eagerly awaiting the second book out this year) and Anne Macaffreys Dragonflight.
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Posted By: Komodo dragon
Date Posted: June 17 2007 at 19:37
heard some story that Bram Stoker steal Dracula from some
chick when they have been together on some art colony in great book -as much as legend -------------
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 18 2007 at 07:55
And it's about tuime you gave it back - Yours sincerely, The Tolkein Estate
Definitely with you on that one my copies of the 1st & 2nd chronicles are distinctly dog-eared now & I too am eagerly awaiting the 2nd in the new series... Incidentally, as one Covenant officianado to another... NOM 
Another couple of books I find myself re-reading time & again: Clive Barker - Weaveworld John Steinbeck - The Grapes Of Wrath ------------- 
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: June 18 2007 at 15:13
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Well, i read Lord of the rings now and again, and then there is this one book i just keep under my pillow like a bible and re-read certain pages from now and again, i just love it. the book in question is "Norwegian Wood" By Haruki Murakami. I have also read another book by Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the shore", but it didn't grab me like Norwegian Wood did. I can definitely recommend him for fans of Wong kar-wai (the film director), as their works tend to have certain similarities. (oh, and if anyone has read Norwegian wood, do say so, i'ts always good to know you have allies, haha..) ------------- 
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Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: June 18 2007 at 15:33
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More than one:
E.T.A. Hoffman "The Princess Brambilla"
H.P. Lovecraft "The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath", "The Dreams in the Witch House"
J.W. von Goethe "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" (sorry, I don't know the English translation to this title)
S. Lem "Solaris"
H. James "The Turn of the Screw"
Snorri "Edda" ------------- 
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Posted By: Hyperborea
Date Posted: June 18 2007 at 18:10
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Michael Moorcock's the eternal champion series (Elric, Erekose, Hawkmoon etc). I read them as often as i can, good sci fi-fantasy stuff.
Probably read the phone book or yellow pages more though  ------------- As i race o'er this beautiful sphere, Like a dog who is chasing his..... |