have you ever loved a book so much...

that you'd pay large sums of money to have never read it, simply so you could have the joy of reading it for your first time all over again?

i have several times. there are a number of books i could say this for, but of course its an impossibility.

still, have you? and what are they?

 

I've only read two books in my life.

 

yes.
A Separate Peace
Gulliver's Travels
Angela's Ashes
Where the Wild Things Are

 

The Tin Drum
Call of the Wild
Slaughterhouse Five
The Border Trilogy
The First Man

All of these books made me feel like I actually existed and that there was a point to existing if not to laugh or cry or feel sad.

 

"Tender is the Night" perhaps.. But not really.

I've never read a book twice.

 

oh and Through the Looking Glass.

 

I don't have large sums of money for such an experience.

 

as wonderful a picturebook as that is, i dont think a book containing less than one sentence per page counts as "reading" :tongue:

the princess bride
the tao of pooh (nonfiction)
stardust
sirens of titan
the adventures of huckleberry finn
fingerprints of the gods (nonfiction)
a pirate of exquisite mind (nonfiction)

 

I reread books and enjoy every minute that I reread them, all the books I have I have read them more than three times....

 

nor do i, nor is such a thing possible. use some imagination :biggrin:

 

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, I believe, would be the number one book to fall under this category for me. Also To Kill A Mockingbird. Also Clapton's autobiography...yes, I did love it that much.

 

all but the last two i've read multiple times.

i'm fine reading books over, but it lacks a little of the magic of discovering "what happens next..."

 

Sometimes a Great Notion and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were pretty good reads.

 

Yes. Angela's ashes as well, The alvin maker series, The riddle-master trilogies, Delta of venus, The touch, and in the forest of the night.

 

as much as i dislike ken kesey as a person, this is a wonderful book. an okay movie as well, but a wonderful book

 

that's been the best book i've ever read. and actually contains quite the story considering it's a children's book. it's still reading, and if i could capture and buy the excitement i had as a first timer/young reader with this book, then i would bottle it and sell it to all you jerks that don't consider it reading. I still read it from time to time, and I still enjoy it.

And actually, i don't care about whatever level it's written at, or the audience it's directed toward. I think there's merit in what one can actually take from the book. And I believe one can draw a lot more from a book like this than they can from a book like Angela's Ashes.

 

I agree. I also find that as I get older and more curious, that I feel that life is too short and I want to squeeze as many books in as I have the energy for.

Factotum is one book that I can read over and over again without it ever losing its spark however.

 

Yeah, Bukowski's good.

 

walden
autobiography of a yogi
and no joke on this one haha - the haunted mask (goosebumps)

 

I'm notorious for skimming through books, instead of reading it for its entirety. The 2nd time around and even the 3rd time around can be good reads, because I will discover a great part that I totally missed.