What is the Best Book that you have ever Read and how many times do you keep going over it, Fact or Fiction?

Answer 1

I actually love Dean Koontz but just recently saw the DVD
"The Secret" and now have the book.......I believe that this book about life may change mine......It has given me a sense of hope. Should see the DVD first, if you can find it, it is selling out everywhere.

Answer 2

I am not really one to reread books I have already read, although there are a couple I have reread after several years have gone by and I really enjoyed the books the first time around. A couple are The Thornbirds, by Colleen McCullough.
(Oddly, this is the only book of hers that I have read that I truly thought inspired.) Another is, A Tale Of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. And Lady Chatterley's Lover, by DH Lawrence. A lot of people don't care for Lawrence, but I have always loved his works. All are fiction.

Answer 3

Lemony Snicket The Carnivorous Carnival.
(which is fiction)
I think I've read that book more than 6 times in the past year.
All of Lemony Snicket books are good though.

I also like
The Exorcist
Where The Red Fern Grows
Heidi
Noughts and Crosses
Rosemary's Baby

Answer 4

I'm not sure that I can narrow it down to one book, there are loads that I've re-read, all fiction
I re-read most of Terry Pratchett's books most years, so I must be up to at least ten times on the earlier ones.
I also re-read most of the Austen's most years, possibly more often so that's about twelve/thirteen times each book (except Mansfield book which I've only read a few times)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, read that five or six times. Also The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory the same number of times.
Queen of Camelot by Nancy McKenzie about five times, I'm an Arthurian nut!

Answer 5

good question, ur going on my star list, well i've read the book of dead days and the dark flight down a few times, the dark flight down is exellent, but only makes any sense if you'e read the book of dead days which is a bit slow (by marcus sedgewick). I've read the hobbit alot of times, i love the magic in it its great (Jrr tolkien). The thief lord or inkheart has to be the best books i've read though, both by cornelia funke, inkheart is the first in a trillogy, its being made into a film and the theif lord is allready a film, also inkspell is the sequeal to inkheart, number 3 isn't out yet, but inkspell is slow. (cornelia Funke)
also there is a book i've only just read called shadowfall which is 100x better than lord of the rings, if i read it again and understand it more it may become my fave book, it is very complex though, but draws you into it within the first 5 pages its like you MUST read it, but bits of it, like with kathryn are slow and boring, but darts bits and most of tylers are really good, because at first it starts with tylers story, then the next para is darts, then a little latter we see kathryn, then tylars part and kathryns come together then does darts, its complex but well worth reading, i cant wait to read hinterland its sequeal but its a little too costly at the moment! (james clemens)

Answer 6

I really love A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving,

I found the beginning a bit hard going the first time i read it but the the whole story is so lovely and i have read it countless times now - i still cry at the end even though i know whats going to happen! Pathetic i know.

Answer 7

Needful Things, fiction. Have read it at least 7 times.

Answer 8

I read A Clockwork Orange annually at Christmas time.

I was just a kid when I read it the first time and the only way I could buy it without my parents knowing was to smuggle it in with some Christmas presents I was buying. So I read it that Christmas and every year, it just feels like it's been long enough since I read it last until it became tradition. And I never really forget the Nadsat in just a year so I don't have to reaquaint myself with the language.

Answer 9

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. Read it about 3 times over the years.

Answer 10

Books I have read over and over over four decades.
1- Shogun by James Clavell. Got me interested in Japanese culture.
2- Neuromancer by William Gibson. I tried his other books and have decided he was "in a zone" when he wrote this one.
3- Cider House Rules by John Irving. He's a funny little man.
4- The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich. Fascinates me how in the real world one totally ruthless creature was able to perpetrate so much mischief before the world finally woke up. And Hitler was a funny little man too. Oh yeah, by William Shirer.