new question

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Yes,  a new question -  what books (other then those of OBA) have you read
> two or more times?
>
> The Satanic Verses  - Rushdie
> Pale Fire  - Nabokov
> Blood Meridian (that's what reminded me) - McCarthy
> Underworld  DeLillo

Uh, off the top of my head ...

Some required, some compulsively ...

Kobo Abe, The Ark Sakura
Aeschylus, The Oresteia
Isaac Asimoc, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
A.A. Attanasio, Radix, In Other Worlds, Arc of the Dream, Legends of Lost Earth
Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy
Roland Barthes, Mythologies
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, Murphy, Molloy
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
David Brin, Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Postman, The Uplift War, Earth
Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Edgar Rice Burrough, Tarzan of the Apes
Italo Calvino, cosmicomics
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer
Ingri and Edgar d'Aulaire, Greek Gods and Myths, The Norse Gods
Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations
Mark Edmundson, Nightmare on Main Street
Harlan Ellison, Paingod
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pecuchet
Robert L. Forward, Dragon's Egg
Felicia Miller Frank, The Mechanical Song
David Gerrold, The World of Star Trek, The Trouble with Tribbles
William Gibson, Neuromancer
Susan A. Handelman, The Slayers of Moses
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Frank Herbert, Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of
Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse: Dune
Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
Douglas Hofstadter, Godel Escher Bach
Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners
James Kunetka and Whitley Strieber, Warday
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris, The Cyberiad
Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
Walter F. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Pale Fire
Larry Niven, Ringworld, The Integral Trees
William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run
George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984
John Kennedy O'Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Frederik Pohl, The Space Merchants, Jem, Years of the City
Simon Reynolds, Blissed Out, The Sex Revolts, Generation Ecstasy, Rip
it Up and Start Again
Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy
Chris Rodley, ed., Lynch on Lynch
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Julius Caesar
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Robert Sobel, For Want of a Nail ...
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Terry Southern, The Magic Christian
Bruce Sterling, A Good Old Fashioned Future, Tomorrow Now
Bruce Sterling, ed., Mirrorshades
S.M. Stirling, The Peshawar Lancers
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
Irving Wallace et al., The Peoples' Almanac
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds
Stephen E. Whitfield, The Making of Star Trek

.... not to mention numerous straight-up children's books (esp. Dr.
Seuss) and much if not all of the 1973 World Book Encyclopedia
(Nixon's still presdient, and Beirut is the Paris of the middle East;
cf. Watchmen) ...

I am particularly compulsive about PKD's TMITHC, not to mnetio Lot 49 ...