“Time Enough For Love”, by Robert Heinlein.
It’s the life story of a man who lives 2,300 years.
Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once?
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#72Good Night Moon - 187 times The Cat In The Hat - 200 times The Very Hungry Caterpillar - 85 times But seriously, im on my third re-read of Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, In my opinion its the best book about leadership ever written.
Yes! And the Rainbow Magic series - 200 books that are the equivalent of reading 1 book 200 times.
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#73I and Thou by Martin Buber
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
On Having No Head by Douglas E. Harding
Re: Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once?
#74Good Night Moon - 187 times The Cat In The Hat - 200 times The Very Hungry Caterpillar - 85 times But seriously, im on my third re-read of Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, In my opinion its the best book about leadership ever written.
I started that book, got about 60% of the way through, and had to put it down. It seemed like Jocko was re-teaching the same lesson over and over again from slightly different angles.
Maybe I missed something big, but that's just the way it felt to me.
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#75Zodiac by Neal Stephenson on audiobook about a dozen times.
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#76The book I've reread the most is The Odyssey. For a long time, I've read it once every year. Another book I've read many times is Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. I've read Asimov's cycle of Foundation many times. Don't know how many, actually. I've also read several times some philosophy classics, particularly Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, Apology and Republic. Then there are many books that I've read at least twice, almos…
If you like the Foundation series, you would probably like the three body problem trilogy. The scale(both in space and time) of the story is as big if not bigger than Foundation and the story is equally fascinating. Really good read!
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#77Every book published by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. and Iain M. Banks (I need to make more of an effort to do the same for Iain Banks. :)
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#78The sprawl (neuromancer etc) and the Jean le Flambeur (quantum thief) trilogies. Both are packed with very interesting concepts and characters.
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#79I read East of Eden by Steinbeck twice. It's a long read, but a great story. In fact, I don't really remember any of the story, so perhaps a third read is in my future.
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#80So I know this is the opposite of what OP is asking, but I've taken the stance recently that I won't re-read another book. There are books that I would like to re-read, but they come at the opportunity cost of reading others. A fellow traveler in a Guatemalan hostel broke it down to me like this: - let's say as an avid reader, you're able to read 12 books a year. - let's say you have 50 years of reading left in you,…
Yes, this is an important point. OTOH the reality of human learning (spaced repetition, etc.) is that a book worth reading is probably worth reading again. Correspondingly you need some ruthlessness about dropping books that aren't panning out.