Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times?

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Post by arikr » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 2:43 AM UTC

Question copied from Eric Jorgenson, who posted the same question on twitter: https://twitter.com/EricJorgenson/status/1016003656787857409

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Post by spraak » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 2:55 AM UTC

My 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? :(

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Post by arikr » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 2:56 AM UTC

spraak wrote: post #2

My 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? :(

Updated with more detail: Question copied from Eric Jorgenson, who posted the same question on twitter: https://twitter.com/EricJorgenson/status/1016003656787857409

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Post by invalidOrTaken » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 3:39 AM UTC

For me it's probably A Wizard of Earthsea, delightfully short at about 160 pages. I'd say...8 times.

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Post by sitkack » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 3:40 AM UTC

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 1

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Post by time0ut » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 3:41 AM UTC

On Intelligence - four times.

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Post by blacksoil » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 3:52 AM UTC

Typically religious book. I am reading "Pray, Hope, Don't Worry" for the 3rd time. It's a compilation of stories of people who've met and interacted with St. Padre Pio -- one of the only few saints who bore the wound of Christ, stigmata. As I tend too focused on work, this book is a great reminder that there are much more about live than just work, work, and work...

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Post by Twirrim » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 3:52 AM UTC

I've re-read The Belgariad series, by David Eddings, so many times I've lost count. Easily once a year, every year, since I was in my mid-teens (I'm in my late thirties). It is most firmly in the territory of "comfort reading" for me these days.

Dune, by Frank Herbert, comes a close second. I've read that at least a dozen times or more. It took me ages to get it. My dad had a copy, and I'd tried to read it probably 4 or 5 times, never getting far. Then I watched the David Lynch movie, went back to it and just devoured the book in a couple of days. Even though the two are wildly different, something about the movie gave me that kick I needed to get me in to the book.

I'm really not one for re-reading books all that much. Most books I read once. The ones I do re-read, I've read maybe 2 or 3 times.

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Post by triviatise » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 3:55 AM UTC

malazan book of the fallen or game of thrones (reread each season to remember what happened).

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Post by __d » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 4:15 AM UTC

I've read CJ Cherryh's Cyteen maybe 20 times.