2006-08-24 03:30:06 · 40 answers · asked by J.S. 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Everything Vonnegut. I read all of his books again every year or so and no matter how many times I re-read them, I keep going back. They're my best old friends that I just have to visit-- even though I always know exactly what they're going to say, they say it so well.
Every once in awhile, I cheat on old Kurt and pick up some Tom Robbins or some Kinky Friedman or somebody, and I can't say we don't have a good time. But KV's the one I love, so I have to keep on going back home. Home to Breakfast of Champions, Hocus Pocus, Slapstick, Deadeye Dick, Jailbird, and all the rest. Even though I've been there so many times, they always seem so fresh, and they pick me up whether I'm feeling blue or not. I re-read "Hocus Pocus" for each new president and rededicate it to them, and each time, it seems like this is the one KV was making fun of.
How can it be anybody but George Bush? "Yale is where the Plantation Owners go to learn how to keep the natives busy killing each other instead of them."
Kurt Vonnegut for President! No more Blue Monday! *
2006-08-24 04:00:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck, plus Cannery Row, Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flats, others.
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Tolkien.
Lonesom Dove, Texasville, McMurtry
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer.
Uhuru, Raurk.
The Prophit, Gibran.
Every thing by Vonnegut
Shogun, Clavell.
Others.
2006-08-24 03:45:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The books I have reread are Plato's Republic, Plato's Symposium, Aristotle's Ethics, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Shakespeare's Sonnets, and Catcher in the Rye
2006-08-24 04:36:31 · answer #3 · answered by Steven S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Count of Monte Cristo
Lord of the Rings books
Harry Potter books
2006-08-24 03:35:54 · answer #4 · answered by echo7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
I don't normally re-read much, because I have so many books I haven't read yet, but these two often come up on my TBR list, even though i've read them countless times before.
2006-08-24 04:06:00 · answer #5 · answered by nellierslmm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I make it a habit to read The Lord of the Rings Trilogy at least once a year. I also love the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. I've read them all so far!
2006-08-24 04:55:39 · answer #6 · answered by Tammie C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several, actually. Catch-22, of course. The Secret Garden. Cat's Cradle. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Fried Green Tomatoes.
2006-08-24 04:19:51 · answer #7 · answered by MTGurl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1984, Brave New World, Cat's Cradle, Maul, A Clockwork Orange, The Wolves, Metamorphosis.
2006-08-24 03:36:13 · answer #8 · answered by rhonda y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
2006-08-24 10:30:37 · answer #9 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vampire Armand by Anne Rice, and Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K Hamilton. I reread it so much that I have memorized the entire book.
2006-08-24 03:51:11 · answer #10 · answered by lelayang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋