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Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times?
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Re: Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times?
#42Lord of the rings at least twice a year from when I was about fifteen for the next ten years and about once a year since then.
The balgariard a good number of times.
Magician often enough that the book is now just a pile of pages.
More recently I’ve been working through cheap books on kindle.
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#43The bible and a book about C++.
Re: Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times?
#44Hobbit/Lord of the Rings x10 at least
Travels - Michael Crichton x10 at least
Fear - Thich Nhat Hanh x10 at least
Tunnels and Trolls Rulebook x100
An Oracle Server v7 book I got on my graduate training course before everything was online and an O'Reilly Unix Handbook
Code Complete and the Mythical Man Month
Godel Escher and Bach - tried to get through it in one several times
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#45My current goal is to read different copies of the Bhagavad Gita. I'm on the third translation. Probably not very impressive! but a great goal for me personally. Edit: downvotes? :(
(have an upvote)
IF I were that interested in a book,(THEN) I'd just learn the language of the original (Sanskrit for the BG) and read the original. Most translations miss many nuances.
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#46"The Count of Monte Cristo" "The Man of Bronze"
What's interesting -- to me, anyway -- are the responses that are (a) books you might not be able to pay me to read or (b) books I enjoyed, but have never considered rereading.
I made it a couple of chapters into "The Lord of the Rings," tossed the book across the room, where it fell down behind some furniture and sat for years. I have never thought about reading it again.
I might need to go back and read both "Dune" and the Amber series. I enjoyed them; but, I've never thought about rereading them at all.
Re: Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times?
#47The book I have re-read the most is The Hobbit. It is comfort food to me. I have had to purchase a new copy because my old one is becoming fragile, and it has a lot of personal meaning to me. That old copy was given to me as a child by my grandfather. He was given that copy by C.S. Lewis while he and my grandmother were staying with him at the Kilns. I can only imagine one place where C.S. Lewis would have obtained a copy of The Hobbit.
There are usually two different reasons why one might re-read a book. Sometimes it is to see the book again through older eyes which have seen and known more. Other times it is to try to re-capture the emotional experience of living in that story. I find that I tend to come back to certain books much more often for the second reason than for the first one. I might feel the desire to re-read Quantum Computing without Magic or Theory of Internal Combustion Engines once a decade at most. But when I'm feeling that the world is a confusing place and I need some simplicity in my life, I'm ready to take a journey to the Lonely Mountain.
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#48I've read Caesar's Gallic War (Commentarii de Bello Gallico) and Civil War (Commentarii de Bello Civili) probably ~300 times but I don't have an exact count. They're relatively short texts.
I've re-read them non-stop for ~20 years any time I don't have something else I'm excited to read. I discovered them as a teenager but still find them fascinating. I find new things to think about every time I read them.
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#49The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa.
On the Road by Kerouac.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
I read Pessoa to feel not so alone. I read Kerouac to feel alive. I read Meditations to not lose my head.
Re: Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times?
#50My current goal is to read different copies of the Bhagavad Gita. I'm on the third translation. Probably not very impressive! but a great goal for me personally. Edit: downvotes? :(
(have an upvote) IF I were that interested in a book,(THEN) I'd just learn the language of the original (Sanskrit for the BG) and read the original. Most translations miss many nuances.
Hey, that's a great idea! I think I'll take that on. Learning Sanskrit would be great, and reading the original BG would be so much better, you're right.