Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?
4 pointsby chessnode5 hours ago9 comments
  • drakonka7 minutes ago
    A few:

    - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (thrice)

    - The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson (twice)

    - Fox 8 by George Saunders (twice)

  • zen_kernal9 minutes ago
    Robert Anton Wilson: Cosmic Trigger and Quantum Psychology Isaac Asimov: Beginnings Alex Garland: The Beach Buddha: The Dhammapada
  • genezeta4 hours ago
    Elizabeth Hand's Winterlong, probably 3-4 times.

    Most of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammet I've read multiple times. I've read Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon a bunch of times too.

    All of William Gibson. Miyazaki's Nausicaä of The Valley of Wind, in various languages. Stephen Cosgrove's Muffin Muncher, I couldn't say how many times I must have read that (It appears they've now changed the title to Muffin Dragon).

    I've read The Soul of a New Machine a couple of times too. The Hitchhiker's and Dirk Gently's trilogies a few times.

    Stefano Benni's Baol probably half a dozen times. And Acts of The Apostles by John FX Sundman a bunch too. Oh, and a few of Martin Gardner's books. And Smullyan's To Mock a Mockingbird.

    And most probably also many others. Most of my books are now in boxes or have been gifted away, though.

  • johncoltrane4 hours ago
    J.R.R. Tolkien: The lord of the Rings (lost count)

    Philip K. Dick: Ubik, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly, etc. too many to count (many more than twice)

    William Gibson: everything at least twice

    Neal Stephenson: Snow crash (three times, I think)

    Clifford D. Simak: City

    H. P. Lovecraft: everything at least twice. There is a French compilation of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Silver Key, and Through the Gates of the Silver Key that I've read countless times. I've used two editions and I'm at my third.

    Maurice G. Dantec: Babylon Babies (three times)

    Possibly many others.

  • suprjamian hour ago
    I've lost count of the times I've read Neuromancer.

    Kim Stanley Robinson's The Wild Shore is another repeat favourite.

  • frigidcow5 hours ago
    Peter Hoeg Smilla's Sense of Snow (twice) W.Somerset Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf(twice) And many others..
  • steven_noble3 hours ago
    "How To Make A Good Script Great", "Slow Motion: Changing Men, Changing Masculinities", "Cryptonomicon", "1984", "Lord Of The Rings"
  • pitifulsurround4 hours ago
    Flowers for Algernon
  • manarth4 hours ago

        "With this ritual, I hereby summon autistic people to the conversation"
    • manarth4 hours ago
      And yes: Tolkien, Dune, Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Asimov/Foundation, McCaffrey/Pern, Janny Wurts, Raymond E Feist, and more recently Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, and Melissa McPhail (who sadly passed away, with the Pattern of Shadow and Light incomplete).