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hummingwolf) wrote2007-05-27 02:03 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2007-05-27 02:03 pm
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Note to self: Books are for re-reading
Though I'm currently in a "Must read new stuff!!1!" phase, there are a bunch of books a little voice in the back of my mind keeps telling me I need to re-read within, oh, the next year or two. List (subject to change without notice) behind the cut.
Lewis Carroll's Alice books
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur
and then T.H. White's The Once and Future King, Tim Powers' Drawing of the Dark and whatever other Arthurian-related stuff seems like a good idea at the time
Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Frank Herbert, Dune
C.S. Lewis--Miracles and maybe some of the other nonfic I haven't read recently. Also Till We Have Faces. Even if I haven't had access to my own copy of the novel in the last eight years, I can still find a way to check it out from one of Maryland's library systems.
Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker, because I own a copy of this book now even if I'm not entirely sure where it is. Also any of the Wimsey novels.
The Tao of Physics, by whoever that was by. I remember not being able to focus on it as well as I wanted to, but it seemed worth re-reading.
C.J. Cherryh, Cyteen. Other novels would be worth re-reading too, but this one's at the top of the list.
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Any of Ellis Peters' Cadfael mysteries, whether I've read it before or not
Andersen's fairy tales
Donald A. Norman, Emotional Design
The Bhagavad-Gita
Gregory Benford, Timescape
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
Dave Stewart, Inside the Music. If I keep re-listening to his albums with Barbara Gaskin, why not re-read this book too?
Some English grammar book or other. My grasp of the rules of punctuation keeps slipping, and let's not even talk about the run-on sentences and the ones without identifiable subjects.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Lewis Carroll's Alice books
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur
and then T.H. White's The Once and Future King, Tim Powers' Drawing of the Dark and whatever other Arthurian-related stuff seems like a good idea at the time
Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Frank Herbert, Dune
C.S. Lewis--Miracles and maybe some of the other nonfic I haven't read recently. Also Till We Have Faces. Even if I haven't had access to my own copy of the novel in the last eight years, I can still find a way to check it out from one of Maryland's library systems.
Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker, because I own a copy of this book now even if I'm not entirely sure where it is. Also any of the Wimsey novels.
The Tao of Physics, by whoever that was by. I remember not being able to focus on it as well as I wanted to, but it seemed worth re-reading.
C.J. Cherryh, Cyteen. Other novels would be worth re-reading too, but this one's at the top of the list.
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Any of Ellis Peters' Cadfael mysteries, whether I've read it before or not
Andersen's fairy tales
Donald A. Norman, Emotional Design
The Bhagavad-Gita
Gregory Benford, Timescape
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
Dave Stewart, Inside the Music. If I keep re-listening to his albums with Barbara Gaskin, why not re-read this book too?
Some English grammar book or other. My grasp of the rules of punctuation keeps slipping, and let's not even talk about the run-on sentences and the ones without identifiable subjects.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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GLad that my favorite book is on top of your list as well.
I'm currently about halfway through Deliverer, and thence to Fortress of Dragons. Well, on the fiction side. In nonfiction, I've a book on Biogenesis, and I simply must read Guests of the Ayatollah.
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The problem with having a list of books I want to re-read is that there are so many books I still want to read for the first time!
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THat is definitely a problem. There are some really bad books out there, but quite enough good ones to occupy you forever.