Any books you love to read over and over again?

[nomadnyc]

Hi everyone,

I am new on the boards! Hope to have many great chats with all of you.

As for SK's works one of my favorites that I have reread several times is Salem's Lot. Just love that book.

As for other works that I have reread:

Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (Stephen R. Donaldson)
The Hour of the Dragon (and to be honest most of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories)
Hyperion Cantos (Dan Simmons)
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)
Candide (Voltaire)

[TheHardcase]

The idea of rereading books used to mystify me, and I think it says something about Stephen King (and his talent) that I can sit down with literally anything he's written and enjoy it over and over.

I'm right there with you. There's so much depth to SK's works that a return visit often reveals themes and sub-themes that I missed the first time around. A few of my return visits . . .

• The Stand -- Five times and counting. In fact, I'm ramping up for a sixth time through in short order.
• Wizard and Glass -- It revealed so much about Roland's early years and how his obsession with the Tower was born
• 'Salem's Lot -- A vampire story with a lot of post-Vietnam small-town angst thrown in to boot.
• Bag of Bones -- There's so much going on in this story, it was impossible for me to digest it all in one reading.
• IT -- See comment above. The fact that SK can cram so much into this magnum opus speaks volumes about his God-given talent.

And that's just the short list. Time permitting, I'll be able to get to many of his other works one of these days.

[Richard_B]

Glad it's not just me... my wife thinks I'm mad that I'm reading IT for the 4th time when there's a bookcase of other novels still to be read... but there are times when all you want is to know you're going to get a good read.. and Sai King delivers! SK-wise I love re-reading the Colarado Kid and some of the novellas like The Body and The Long Walk.

Apart from SK - I tend to re-read Robert Westall (criminally lesser-known UK author who wrote most teen fiction, but including "Futuretrack 5 which is brilliant) and Clive Barker (Books of Blood and early stuff...)

[Tooley]

I've reread Salem's Lot twice, that book is just awesome. I've also read And Then There Were None (a mystery!) many times, Harry Potter (the first) twice and The Giver twice.

[youngfibre]

I have done Insomnia a few times and Anne Rice' The Vampire Lestat also i think i read Esan Case' Wing Men every few months.

[Tamou]

I could read 'IT' over and over.
I can open it up at any page, read a few sentences and I'm already hooked, same goes for 'The Stand'.