If you could read a book again for the first time...
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Dude.
Think of the great books you've read. Now imagine getting to read one of them again for the first time, without knowing how the story and characters would develop, or what plot twists would happen along the way. What book would you most want to read?
@coolwaterunc doesn't read.
I think the last book I fully read was Green Eggs and Ham.
I honestly don't know if I would characterize any book I've ever read as "great". Informative? Sure. Entertaining? Rarely. Sleep aid? No doubt. Great? Meh.
I know it makes me sound like an idiot, but I don't read books for entertainment. Reading fiction is bizarre to me. If I read, it's for educational purposes. And even then, it's usually going to be articles or something I can read in one sitting. I've never really been one to read, put it down and come back and pick it up later. Even in high school when I was forced to read A Separate Peace, Great Expectations, Brave New World, Animal Farm and all those assigned books, I never really read them they way the teacher asked us to. Teachers wanted us to read a little every night so we could talk about it in class. I checked out of those discussions and would just read the books on the night before I had to take the test.
The last book I read (and I'm not sure now if I even finished it) was Always By My Side by Jim Nantz. It was not great. The last book I remember liking was Comet In Moominland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_in_Moominland
I'm changing my answer to this. Awesome read as a kid.
Go with that, then.
I loved Sci Fi and Fantasy books as a kid. My vote would probably be "A Spell for Chameleon" by Piers Anthony, the first book in the Xanth series. Xanth is a place where every human character has a unique magical ability. Just saw after googling that the series is up to 42 (!) books and they're being made into a movie and TV series.
Incidentally, Piers Anthony also authored a great series called "The Incarnations of Immortality" which tells the story of how regular mortals assume the offices of Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, etc.
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I love love love to read! Great question, wow.
Sports: 'To hate like this is to be happy forever'
Religion: 'Safely Home'
Self Help: 'The total money makeover'
Education: 'Aftershocks of history'
Biography: 'Through gates of splendor'
Just for fun: anything by Patrick McManus
Sports: 'To hate like this is to be happy forever'
Religion: 'Safely Home'
Self Help: 'The total money makeover'
Education: 'Aftershocks of history'
Biography: 'Through gates of splendor'
Just for fun: anything by Patrick McManus
Huck Finn
I reread this about every couple years anyway but remember how great I thought it was the first time.
I reread this about every couple years anyway but remember how great I thought it was the first time.
Either 'It' or 'Flowers for Algernon' or 'Perelandra', all for different reasons.
I really enjoyed the Xanth books for a while but eventually they lost their charm for me. I did read some of his other stuff later on and enjoyed it.
I also got into the Dragonlance series and remember really being drawn into the original companions.
I seem to drift away from series when the original characters have died off and a new generation is introduced.
It happened to me with Star Wars movies. Don't care about any of the recent ones that aren't about Han, Luke, etc...
As far as the OP, I'm not sure. But, I still have most of the books I've read over the past several decades so I can pull them out at any time.
