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[Bekah]

I never used to reread anything unless it was a long time between  
reads because,  like you said, Laura,  there's so much good stuff to  
read in the world,   but then a few years ago I read The Satanic  
Verses for the first times.   I was finishing up and really into it  
but as I neared the last page I realized that I had not even begun to  
plumb the depths of that gorgeous book.   How in hell did Rushdie  
take the reader from point A to point C?    I turned it over and  
started again and  enjoyed every page.

I've read DeLillo's Underworld all the way through probably 4 times.   
I think that's my record.  But the readings were a year or two apart  
at least.

Bekah



On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:37 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> 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 ...
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