Tim Ware on AtD

[Joe Allonby]

This ongoing discussion strikes me as a bit weird, especially when it
involves people that I consider literate and assume to be voracious readers.

Don't you read books with the assumption that you will read them again?

On 11/8/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Books I've read again and again, e.g., ...
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> Kobo Abe, The Ark Sakura
> Samuel Beckett, Molloy
> __________, Waiting for Godot
> David Brin, Earth
> __________, Sundiver
> Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
> Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
> Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
> Susan A. Handelman, The Slayers of Moses
> Frank Herbert, Dune
> Felicia Miller Frank, The Mechanical Song
> Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
> Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
> George Orwell, 1984
> Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
> __________, Gravity's Rainbow
> Simon Reynolds, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock
> Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus
> Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
> Terry Southern, The Magic Christian
> John Kennedy Toole, Confederacy of Dunces
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> Trying to get back to again, e.g., ...
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> Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters
> James Joyce, Ulysses
> Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad
> Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities
> Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
> Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
> Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience (Confessions of Zeno)
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> --- David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > And how many of us have a list of books that we'd
> > want to read "again and again?"
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