What Book have you read the most?

[royalfan5]

For me it is:
Non-Fiction: Barbarians at the Gate (This book really sold me on becoming an investment banker)
Fiction: Breakfast of Champions (This book really sold me on not becoming an insane auto-dealer or a science fiction writer)
Other: I Dare You by William Danforth I won this book as an award and have found it useful quite often.

[1stTimeCaller]

Johnathan Livingston Seagull

or Animal Farm

[birddog]

The Illustrated Man

Bradbury

[yermom]

probably The Bible, strangely enough

i don't generally re-read books

[soonerinabilene]

Where the Red Fern Grows. Dang book makes me tear up every time.

And the Left Behind series.

[tbl]

Holy Bible, NKJV & NASB versions.

[Howzit]

The Stand by Stephen King

Illusions by Richard Bach

[soonerbrat]

I read all the Narnia books multiple times...and the A Wrinkle in Time series. I"m also a fan of Gresham books, so I re-read those occasionally. I might re-read the Harry Potter books soon.

[Lott's Bandana]

The Lord of the Rings Series - i was young

The Stand

(is there an echo in here?)

[stoops the eternal pimp]

The Grinch that stole Christmas..I have to read it 2 times every night to my daughter so I know its passed up about everything else except the bible

[Preservation Parcels]

non-fiction - Bible

[FirstandGoal]

Non-fiction: Bible [whatever version I happen to have handy at the time]

Fiction: Harry Potter. I love these books and reread [and listen to them on audiobook] a few times a year.

[Curly Bill]

Where the Red Fern Grows. Dang book makes me tear up every time.


Bingo! Read that thing countless times as a young lad...and yeah made me get teary every time I did.

[SoonerStormchaser]

The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara


My most favoritestest book of all time!

[rufnek05]

The Hobbit
and
War of the Rats.

[frankensooner]

The Harry Potter Series and The Stand.

Oklahoma Statutes Annotated

Pacific Reporter 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

[Sooner_Bob]

The Bible.

I don't think I've ever read any other book more than once, but if freakin' George R.R. Martin doesn't hurry up with the next A Song of Fire and Ice book I might have to reread the first 4 books again.

[SoonerBorn68]

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Slaughterhouse 5

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

I have read 100% of most of the books I've read.

[proud gonzo]

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch (both nonfiction).

Hard to figure out what fiction i've read the most. I reread fiction a lot, so I don't know if there's any one that stands out in particular. Maybe the Harry Potter series or one called A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

I didn't realize there was this many literate people on the board.

[tbl]

"there was this many"... :D

Fiction, I'd say the Dune series, including the new ones by his son. Also, add "The Diggingest Dog", "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish", and both of the Cat in the Hat books.

[crawfish]

LOTR, at least a dozen times.

The bible many times, although admittedly only in parts at a time, and some parts more than others. :)

[frankensooner]

I like the begat passages. I read it cover to cover once on a dare by our youth minister.

[Collier11]

Almost done reading '23 minutes in Hell', pretty good and vivid book if you believe in Heaven and Hell

[tbl]

LOTR, at least a dozen times.

The bible many times, although admittedly only in parts at a time, and some parts more than others. :)

Ditto on everything, though I don't think I'm into dozens yet on LOTR. Including the Hobbit and Silmarillion, I'm probably getting close to 10.

[IB4OU2]

[quote=Howzit]The Stand by Stephen King

Excellent Book....

The Killer Angels by Mike Shaara

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

Jeff writes ALOT like his dad.

Oh and the Holy Bible.....I read that quite a bit within the last year.

[Chuck Bao]

The Merriam Webster Dictionary. I need to read this one more often than I really should admit.

The Bible is a close second.

There is a very, very steep fall-off to number 3. Probably, it is Lonely Planet Guide - Thailand.

Besides reference books, I would think that it is "Lord of the Rings" for fiction and "A History of God" by Karen Armstrong.

[mikeelikee]

The Bible, obviously. However, if Queen Hillary gets close to becoming our next president, I may have to re-read "Hell to Pay" by the late Barbara Olson. If she's anything like what's in that book, God help us all!

[dolemitesooner]

Eye of the world - by Robert Jordan.

[TMcGee86]

The Deep Blue Goodbye - John D. MacDonald.

[Kels]

The Bible
Personal Disciplemaking

Not so much a specific book, but several books by one author multiple times:
Alexander Dumas
Tom Clancy

[crawfish]

Eye of the world - by Robert Jordan.

I'm not sure I'm going to live long enough to read the WOT again.

[AllAboutThe'O']

Jim Bouton's book "Ball Four," the greatest sports book of all time IMHO.

It's a tradition of mine to read "Ball Four" at the start of every baseball season. Even though it's almost 40 years old, the book and the subject matter still hold up well. I still recite most of the lines, and even after multiple readings, I still find new insights that I hadn't come across in prior readings; to me, that also makes it a great book.
Funny thing, though, is that the book isn't quite as good after Bouton was traded from the Seattle Pilots to the Houston Astros, although he was going from the dregs of an expansion team to one in a pennant race. He was more of a rebel and iconoclast with the Pilots and was always clashing with teammates and management, but he was more like "one of the guys" once he went to the Astros, and the book sort of lost its edge once he was traded. But it doesn't take away from what a fantastic book it still is.

[SouthFortySooner]

3rd mention but "The Stand" by Stephen King is the only book I've ever read 3 times.

[reevie]

A Tale of Two Cities

Shoeless Joe

The Bible

Jurassic Park

[GottaHavePride]

Um, Isaac Asimov's entire Robots, Empire, and Foundation arc (9 or 10 books if I recall).

Followed by the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (ha).

And then Lord of the Rings

And then Harry Potter.

And then Terry Pratchett. He's only so far down the list because he has 20+ books out and they're all outstanding.


Although if you go by word count I've probably read more Dostoyevsky than any other author. ;)

[FirstandGoal]

Eye of the world - by Robert Jordan.

Will this series ever be finished now? It was taking so long between books that I had to reread the whole thing right before another book came out, but now I don't know what is going on with these. :(

[dolemitesooner]

Will this series ever be finished now? It was taking so long between books that I had to reread the whole thing right before another book came out, but now I don't know what is going on with these. :(Robert Jordan died.

i don't know whats going to happen

[crawfish]

Robert Jordan died.

i don't know whats going to happen

I do. :) (http://www.fantasybookspot.com/node/2252)

[SoonerBOI]

The Bible

[Vaevictis]

Chronicles of Narnia, no question. I probably read it 15 times as a kid, and have also read it another couple times as an adult.

[CatfishSooner]

Lonesome Dove
Where the Red Fern Grows...

[sooner_born_1960]

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Probably 500 or more times.

[crawfish]

B.
Big Brown Bear.
Big Brown Bear, Blue Bull.
Big Brown Bear, Blue Bull, Beautiful Baboon...
Big Brown Bear, Blue Bull, Beautiful Baboon, Blowing Bubbles...

Sorry. Just seeing how far I could get on memory alone. I read it about 100 times back in the 90's...

[sooner_born_1960]

Big Brown Bear, Blue Bull, Beautiful Baboon, Blowing Bubbles,Biking Backwards...
Big Brown Bear, Blue Bull, Beautiful Baboon, Blowing Bubbles,Biking Backwards, Bump Black Bug's Banana Boxes...

Mine were born in '93 and 95, so we were probably reading it at the same time.

[Cam]

I've read The Dark Tower series twice.

Don't really like re-reading books.

[FirstandGoal]

I do. :) (http://www.fantasybookspot.com/node/2252)

This is amazing news. I felt so bad because the first thing i thought when I heard RJ died back in September was "crap, now we will never know..." :O

Has anyone ever read the Artemis Fowl series? For "kid" books, I find them highly entertaining.

[AverageJoe]

I have read Battlefield Earth 5 times. Last time was just after I saw the so called movie to wash that piece of crap thing out of my brain.

BTW I stood up and threw my popcorn at the screen with a boo and this is total BS speech and walk out of that so called movie after 10 minutes and took half the audience with me. The Non-Sci Fi er's in the audience were freaked out wondering what the hell our problem was.

Damn Scientology Church of L. Ron freaks ruined one the best Sci Fi books ever written. Then a few years later they convince Chef to quit South Park.

They should all be killed.

AJ

[chriscappel]

I Am Legend (horrible movie!!)
Of Mice and Men
1984
Brave New World


...Just to name a few

[SouthFortySooner]

Has anyone ever read the Artemis Fowl series? For "kid" books, I find them highly entertaining.

I've read the first 4 aloud to my son. Good stuff. :)