Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
haha mea culpa. so let me modify the thread, then: what are the sort of
books you re-read?
Heh. Deja Vu all over again [1].
i hardly ever re-read, despite building up a huge collection. i find i
almost always end up remembering the book quite well once i'm back in
it. some times that is the point of re-reading, of course.
Indeed, and this is what I meant when I was talking about "comfort
reads" a few messages upthread.
In spite of having a threateningly large To Be Read pile (~200 books at
last estimate) I keep going back to some old favourites over and over again.
A representative list:
- JT Edson's early works (a guilty pleasure - his prose is lousy and his
politics worse, but I still go back to them over lunch/dinner every now
and again)
- Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash (I can read some of the semi-standalone
bits of Cryptonomicon, like the hacking sequences or the "how to eat
cereal" bit, over and over even though I almost have them memorised by now)
- Rudy Rucker's Infinity and the Mind (my ultimate comfort read - lucid,
clear, and sometimes genuinely funny writing about some of the most
abstruse topics possible)
- The early Executioner books
- Laurell Hamilton's Obsidian Butterfly, the last of the good Anita
Blake books
- Neil Gaiman's Sandman and The Books of Magic. Both the art and the
prose reward repeat engagements.
Udhay
[1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/5134
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