Lord Of The Rings.
He Who Fights With Monsters.
Thrawn.
The Hunt For Red October.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin.So many I will give another listen to.
Just because this is the first post that I see that mentions LoTR, I’ll throw in
The Silmarillion
Children of Hurin
Beren and Luthien (personal favorite)
The Fall of Gondolin (incomplete, but incredible)
These are all Tolkien works and I could read them over and over.
I have all discworld books, I would definitely reread most of them. I just reread The Hail Mary Project.
I’m going through the Discworld series for the first time right now. I’m going in chronological order but when I finish I’ll probably go through them again eventually but I think I’ll do series instead in bunches. I’m already looking forward to rereading the Watch series back to back.
I’ve just read the first one and the one about the printing press. There’s a lot!
Yeah there are like 40 of them but you can split them up in to series. If you liked The Truth you’ll probably like the Watch series starting with Guards! Guards! and following Sam Vines and the other Watchmen.
On my third pass right now. Skipped a couple of the first novels, but I love the original order. Got feels for all the series, but I like the perfect way he kept them mixed up.
“Oh shit! Another witches book!”
“Back to the Watch! NICE!”
“Rincewind? Hell with it, those are all funny as hell.”
Third run through Discworld in the past 2 years. My god, been trying to think how to explain to my best friend. I lack the words.
The Sandman Slim series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/46424-sandman-slim
And
The Dresden Files series
Dresden files are so good! Dead beat is my favorite
I want another Dresden Files show. That would be great.
Is that the magical hard-boiled detective? I forget the name but I liked that one.
The Dispossessed
Left Hand of Darkness
Yeah. Ursula Le Guin always surprises me; when I re-read her books, they’re often better than I remember.
Project Hail Mary was amazing. Can’t wait for the movie too.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I think I must be one if the few people on the planet who didn’t care for it.
Same here, didn’t vibe with the main character’s constant complaining and whining
There will be a movie‽‽‽
It’s got Ryan Gosling cast as the main, I think?
Story spoiler:
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“No voice actor for rocky has not been announced” - A voice actor for… musical notes?
I’m super worried they’re not gonna do rocky well. I think the appropriate thing would be to use subtitles, however I doubt normal people would be into that
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I hope they come up with something like the ship computer doing the translation, while rocky beeps and boops around
I plan to reread all Clive Barker novels a second time, at some point in my life. His prose is just so unique and has an effortless beauty about it that I’ve yet to find in another author.
Plot can only really draw you in once… when you already know what happens in a story it doesn’t have the same pull it had the first time. But prose has a lasting appeal, one that can be revisited. The indescribable quality of the way that words can make you feel is unique to the relationship between reader and writer.
So you didn’t let Mr B go?
Fittingly enough, that was the first of his novels I read and will likely be the first one I reread.
Only one I’ve read so far. I intend to get to the rest, but I’m more of a sci-fi and fantasy junkie than horror, and there is so much to read
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
I loved that one.
The Dark Tower series. All of them
That series was amazing and I’m still mad they tried to cram it all into a single movie.
That was definitely pitchfork worthy. I haven’t even seen it and I never will.
Don’t ask me silly questions, I won’t play silly games I’m just a simple choo-choo train, and I’ll always be the same I only want to race along, beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo-choo train, until the day I die
It got awkward when King decided to be a character in his own story. But aside from that I really enjoyed them.
The gunslinger is def up there for me
Yes. Another good series; some better than others - I personally liked the first the most - but I think they’re all important pieces of the story.
Definitely on my “read again” list, although I only discovered and read them all a couple of years ago; maybe next year.
Most of The Culture series
Malazan Book of the Fallen.
The black company had some good reread value, at least the first three! If you havnt read em, you absolutely should.
Nice suggestion! I have read them, and they’re really good, but I haven’t found myself rereading that series like I have with Malazan!
I’m reading malazan right now, and it’s giving off Black Company vibes. Different, but similarities. Apparently the author mentioned Black company as an influence
Speaker for the Dead
Eisenhorn
Count of Monte Cristo
The Emperor of All Maladies
Moby Dick
Lords of Silence
All honorable men: History of the war in Lebanon
Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology
The Biology of Cancer
Japan to 1600
History of Medieval Russia
The Baltic: A History
On War
The Back Channel
Timbuktu (By Villiers)
Sorry if this is too many, just looked at my book app for ones I keep reading.
Speaker for the Dead
Interesting! I enjoyed it much less than Ender’s Game, but they were such different books it doesn’t surprise me that someone else would prefer it.
Moby Dick
Right‽ Such an amazing read. It does take a bit to get into the cadence, I find, but so worth it.
I loved Enders Game, Enders Shadow and Speaker for the Dead. It had a great emotional importance to me. Especially Enders Shadow, it was one of the first books I read that properly described starvation. I went through a lot as a child, and Beans story of a starving, smart, small kid really resonated with me in the period after my own tribulation. I don’t think Shadow has the same impact on people without some of my experiences, so I chose to use the main arc and I’ve always felt that Ender would rather be remembered as The Speaker more than anything else. Probably silly, but I’m fine with that. In short, I agree, Enders Game is the better book. Speaker is just the pay off.
Moby Dick has always infuriated and enthralled me. I read 5 pages, hate myself. Start reading again in 15 minutes because I can’t get it out of my head.
I liked Ender’s Shadow much more than Speaker for the Dead, which felt preachy to me. I just didn’t click with it.
Both Game and Shadow are great books, and excellent choices.
It’s been a really long time since I read Speaker, but I really liked it.
First, middle school me loved how different it was from Enders Game. It was a challenge, and it felt like the author was purposefully shedding the fans of the first novel with something less approachable.
Second, it hooked me in immediately with the mystery, and then really wrestled with what would anthropology with non-human cultures look like, and how could they go wrong? And how could that bridge be mended? In a way that middle school me could appreciate.
It seemed to complete Enders Game in the sense that in the first novel, he accidentally genocides a species based on a historic cultural misunderstanding between alien sentient races, and Speaker is his chance to learn from his experience and prevent it from happening again. I ate up that moral.
I may have rose-tinted glasses and only remember the good parts.
Also I remember liking Xenophobia (?) but even then I realized that even though the OCD descriptions were really interesting, there was something *off about making them all Asians with genetically-engineered disabilities to keep them from being too smart (I forget the exact plot, but that felt pretty icky even though I didn’t understand why and still can’t really explain it).
I liked Enders Shadow because Bean’s background was eye-opening, but the other Shadow novels felt pretty weird in how they framed and simplified world politics.
The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990
its short so suitible for a quick reread & even for people who dont like books
its like a childbook in the amount of text but more for adultsInterstellar Age or any book from Jordan Peterson
I’m not a big rereader, but at some point I’d like to read through the expanse and the locked tomb again
I’m a big rereader in general, but occasionally a book will grab me so hard that I finish it & begin again right away. I’ve had two of those in the past year:
- Moonbound by Robin Sloan
- Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
