Okay Big Tenters, HughHewitt.com wants to know what modern novels bloggers have reread. Let's put together a list and send him an email.
As for me, I tend to read fantasy and science fiction to keep me as far afield from my history work as possible. Let me second and third and whatever al the folks out there who suggest Lord of the Rings and The Chronciles of Narnia. Yes, please, by all means, if you have not read those yet go get them and read them.
It remains to be seen if Stephen King's Dark Tower series will scale such lofty heights as Tolkien and Lewis, but I have reread the first four and expect I will reread all seven again once I get all the new editions in hardcover.
I have reread L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth multiple times, and always really enjoyed it. Just try to forget the movie. Oh wait, no one saw the movie. Good. Don't.
On the extreme other end of the book-turned-into-movie-spectrum, I plan on rereading The Godfather sometime in the future. Puzo is kind of nasty--I think he liked the ladies, but didn't exactly like the ladies--but reading the book really enriches watching the movies.
Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain) is wonderful and worth reading over and over again. The trilogy is also a good example of why I read sci-fi and fantasy. One series of books set in the southwest in the mid twentieth century and I'm marking pages for a quotation as an epigram for the intro to my dissertation. It's a sickness. Really.
That's it for now. I'd like to hear suggestions from others.
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I may have to opt out of this list, since I don't ever read fiction. I guess I read Catcher in the Rye quite a few times when I was young, but I hate to admit that now. I read some bad fiction while I was on my honeymoon, but I don't remember any of the authors. My bedside reading right now is a Churchill biography. I read history books for work. For fun I read history books outside my field. Lame.
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Nevermind about the email, we have been linked from Hewitt's site. If anyone has any books to add, feel free to put them on the comments section here.
Right now I'm making my way through a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's short stories called Sentinel (that's the title of one of the short stories, the story that provided the seed of the idea that became the movie 2001). So far it is excellent. I am still chewing on one of the stories called "Guardian Angel." Just excellent.
I posted my list on the main page.
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