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[kelber at mindspring.com]

Monroe clearly wins the re-read prize.  I always feel (kind of neurotically) guilty about re-reading, because life is so (mercifully) short and there are so many books still unread.  I have re-read the following:

GR, V, COL49, ATD, Slow Learner - Pynchon
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Golden Notebook - Lessing
Buddenbrooks, Stories of Three Decades - Thomas Mann
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
The City - Clifford Simak

Laura

Also re-read old Nancy Drew and Tintin books, and re-read the Seuss books a zillion times to my kids.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 19, 2008 3:03 PM
>To: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: new question
>
>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 ...