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2005-12-27 14:57:19
From: dotann
(Bay Area)
I search through memory and couldn't think of any novels that I've ever read a second time, even though a lot of books I read during childhood really deserve a second look, probably because there're always so many new books to be read.
The kind of books I found myself reading over and over usually take a long time to finish reading in the first place, photography, poetry, and... surprisingly, interior design even though I don't even own a house.
To name a few recent "books in second looks", Terence Conran's "The House Book" which has been my favourite interior design book, "Photojournalism" which was picked up again since I started learning bw photography, Nietzsche's "Human all too Human" which has become a sort of reference book for me... What's on your list?
| 2005-12-27 17:36:41: Orpheus
Sigh......I know this will start some serious eyeball rolling, but with all honesty:
-Thucydides, "The Pelopponesian Wars".
-Milton, "Paradise Lost".
-Shakespeare, anything and everything.
-W.H. Auden.
-John Donne.
-H.L. Mencken, the more vicious essays.
-William Hazlitt, "The Pleasure of Hating".
-George Orwell, the Sanity Restoration Worker.
-Lionel Trilling, "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent".
-Lao-tze, "Lao-tze" ("Tao-te-ching" is a stupid title for a brillian book that has little to do with morality).
-Finally, the greatest Chinese history ever, from 2500 years ago: "Chronicle of Tsuo" (左传)
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| 2005-12-27 17:38:52: Orpheus
Terence Conran's "The House Book" : good call. One of my favorite books on interior deco, too. Valuable reference when we furnished our downtown guest apartment in Shanghai.
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| 2005-12-27 18:37:00: AD
Tolkien and Lewis
Calvin & Hobbes comics
various books that are profound and put the world back into proper perspective
Bible
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| 2005-12-28 06:51:12: JmeDoom
(Asheville, The Sea)With so many books out there unread it's hard for me to reread books, but there are two I allow myself to read again and again. This Boys's Life by Tobias Wolfe and American Chilhood by Annie Dillard. Both are an easy/refreshing way to spend a rainy Saturday morning in bed.
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