I think the best line in the entire book is in "A Study in Scarlet", when Watson gets aggravated at Holmes' newspaper article and says, "What ineffable twaddle!"
Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. I've read it a few times. It's a really good book that encompasses a lot of genres in one. Politics, apocalypse, adventure, humor, etc. Most books I don't read twice though. There are a too many books out there I want to read.
After seeing that the movie In the Heart of the Sea is based on actual events that inspired Melville to pen Moby Dick, I'm going to try and read Moby Dick. I really want to see In the Heart of the Sea, too!!
After reading it as a kid, I've always had a soft spot for the Three Musketeers and have probably read it a half a dozen times since then. I guess I want to read Born to Run a second time, but I am trying to wait a year or two.
Apart from the Bible, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Have read it close to 10 times and seems to get more timely and relevant with each reading.
There are several books/series that I love and have read more than three times: The Bible Shogun by James Clavell The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (only got 8 or 9 books in, need to go back and start again) The Postman by David Brin The Matt Helm series and The Big Country by Donald Hamilton Several books by: Robert Heinlein Larry Niven Tom Clancy Robert Ludlum Louis L'Amour Steven King Read once, would like to read these again: Ben-Hur Moby Dick The Godfather by Mario Puzo The Virginian by Owen Wister The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Harry Potter series I could go on and on, but I think I'll stop now.
It took me 3 tries to get through it, but it is quite good. The more you read it the easier and more comfortable the language becomes.
You can download "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" for free and read it on your computer if you wish. You can also get it for your smart phone if you have kindle or iBooks. Some collections that say complete, aren't quite.
Anything by Tolkien or Heinlein, Asimov's original Foundation trilogy, or Brin's The Uplift War. If I want to feel nostalgic, anything by Calvin Rutstrum or Bradford Angier.
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence aka Lawrence of Arabia, The Big Sky by Alfred Guthrie, The Lord of the Rings series by Tolkien.
Log of A Cowboy - Andy Adams Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey Wanderer of the Wasteland - Zane Grey The Red Pony - John Steinbeck Tolken
I have read and re-read this book many times: THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF ANECDOTES by Clifton Fadiman -- always a joy!
Tolkien is a favorie-anything for me too Props for dragon riders of pern series, I don't know too many people who read it. Anything by L'amour The Bible Tom Clancy CS Lewis and many more
I did - just once so far though ... When I was a boy I managed to read every single book in the Science Fiction/Fantasy department of the Public Library in my home town
