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[Brock Vond]

LOLs out loud...

nobody likes a show-off...

lol ... holy f... you read Clockwork Orange more than once?!?!  oi Vey!

On Nov 19, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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 ...