If you could never read a new book in your life, and only had one book to re-read once a year, which would you pick, and why?
(Feel free to substitute “the next 10 years“ for “the rest of your life“.)
Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?
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#2Lord of the Rings.
I re-read LotR, one volume a day, every day in 5th grade. Speed reading practice. Have re-read it several times since then, it still holds up.
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#3Gravity's Rainbow
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#4Mastery by Robert Greene
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#5Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations
Raoul Vaneigem
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#6Gravity's Rainbow
Interesting. Had to look it up. Wikipedia:
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military.
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#7Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
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#8Founders at Work — Timeless collection of lessons learned from the men/women in the arena.
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#9A Confederacy Of Dunces
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#10Quincunx