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[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] MrKurtz@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

The Count of Montecristo.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Malazan Book of the Fallen.

[–] wizrad@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The black company had some good reread value, at least the first three! If you havnt read em, you absolutely should.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nice suggestion! I have read them, and they're really good, but I haven't found myself rereading that series like I have with Malazan!

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[–] chrisbit@leminal.space 4 points 2 days ago

'The Count of Monte Cristo' is one I look forward to reading every few years.

[–] fekdifeyeno@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am Legend - reading it again just now.

[–] DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today -4 points 2 days ago

Great choice! I wish they would have followed it exactly for the movie

[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Considering I am currently rereading the Stormlight Archive - I’ll go with that.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. A comic book about comic books, cartoons, sequential art, and art in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Witcher, I've read it at least once every two/three years for the last 18 years and it's still entertaining.

[–] nadram@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Planning my second read-through. What a work of art

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago

Indeed. And what fascinates me the most is how well it holds up after so many years, there's no other book that's still so engaging for me, especially given I'm a very different person than I was 18 years ago.

Sapkowski's writing is awesome.

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a big rereader in general, but occasionally a book will grab me so hard that I finish it & begin again right away. I've had two of those in the past year:

  • Moonbound by Robin Sloan
  • Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 days ago

I was like that when Jurassic Park came out. I read it at least a couple of dozen times.

[–] StClinton@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A Clockwork Orange The Ware series by Rudy Rucker Heartstones by Ruth Rendell Coal by J. Jason Grant Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A Clockwork Orange

I haven't read it because I'm afraid I won't like it as much as I do the movie. It happened with Jeeves & Wooster. I'd seen the series before I picked up the first book, and the Jeeves described in the book was so different from Stephen Fry - who was Jeeves, in my mind, that I just couldn't enjoy the books.

[–] CM400@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It is sufficiently different to piss you off at first, but it’s a really good read.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There’s some good (and also some inexplicable to me) books here already so I won’t mention any of them.

I’ll choose P. G. Wodehouse. Although he’s more famous for Jeeves and Wooster I much prefer his Blandings stories. Such sublime, perfection.

His writing seems so effortlessly easy but others who have attempted to emulate it have all fallen ugly, leaden, clumsy and short of his comic genius.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Kokoro.

Also have vague plans to reread Der Zauberberg

Likely also will reread V. and the Count of Monte Christo at some point.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990
its short so suitible for a quick reread & even for people who dont like books
its like a childbook in the amount of text but more for adults

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Books that I have already read more than once:

The Stranger by Camus The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo The Fisherman by John Langan

  • The Power of Now
  • Batman (1989, it was well written for a movie novelisation)
[–] Magister@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Golden Ass, I absolutely love this book

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass

Especially inside the story Tale of Cupid and Psyche

[–] DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today -3 points 2 days ago

Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (book 1 of Book of the New Sun)

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