Cryptonomicon. Couldn’t even say, more than 10 times.
Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times?
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#12I must've read "The Tale of The Unknown Island" at least 30-40 times. A 30 minutes read that you take for your whole life.
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#13I've read Dune at least 8 times, maybe 10. I could go on and on about how much I love this book.
I've read the Lord of the Rings 3 - 4 times, which I feel is a lot for a pretty thick series.
Lord of the Flies: 3 - 4 reads
1984: 3 - 4 reads
A Clockwork Orange: 3 reads
Brave New World: 4 reads
I really like dystopian fiction I guess.
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#14I've read CJ Cherryh's Cyteen maybe 20 times.
Can you tell me why you like it? I've been thinking about picking up any random Cherryh book for a while now but I haven't pulled the trigger.
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#15I've read Dune at least 8 times, maybe 10. I could go on and on about how much I love this book. I've read the Lord of the Rings 3 - 4 times, which I feel is a lot for a pretty thick series. Lord of the Flies: 3 - 4 reads 1984: 3 - 4 reads A Clockwork Orange: 3 reads Brave New World: 4 reads I really like dystopian fiction I guess.
What do you do for a living?
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#16I've read HHGTTG over and over. But I'm guessing anyone who has read it once has always wanted to do that.
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#17On Intelligence - four times.
But did you read in on a Palm Pilot?
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#18I have read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, maybe 7 or 8 times. I have lost count.
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#19"Goodnight Moon", maybe a hundred times
"Go Dog, Go!", maybe a hundred times
"HOP ON POP", maybe a hundred times
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#20I've read the classics, Dune (+sequels), Lord of the Rings, and the Amber books by Zelazny at least 20 times each over the past twenty years.
Other favourites include the Vlad Taltos novels by Brust which I've read at least ten times each (still thinking "WTF?" over Vallista though!) and Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
My tastes tend towards SciFi & Fantasy, but I have no shame about my love of romance either.
(The last set of books I read were the complete Bond novels by Ian Fleming. I don't think I'd read them again, very dated, very different to the films, and not that great.)
I've read most of Terry Pratchett's books a few times each, some more than others, along with other "comedy" writers such as Jasper Fforde, and Tom Holt (his "Portable Door" series is my favourite.)