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In reply to the discussion: Do You Have a Fictional Book That You Have Read Several Times? [View all]genxlib
(5,524 posts)176. My Wife and I love Jasper Fforde
The Thursday Next books are great. It is a charming mix of Hitchhikers level silliness with a surprisingly high Literary IQ.
I was also obsessed by his Shades of Gray book and have read it several times. One of my favorite distopian novels. Funny story is that my daughter absolutely loved the book when she was 12. Not at all a kids or YA book but she loved it.
The Nursery Crimes series is fun too. Nursery rimes retold as crime fiction.
It makes me sad that he has really slowed down publishing and is sort of semi-retired.
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Earth Abides. A Canticle for Leibowitz. The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings. Handmaids Tale. ...
Binkie The Clown
May 2017
#7
I love this. Read it when I was a kid. My favorite of his was The Illustrated Man, ever read that?
JudyM
May 2017
#74
There are supposedly forthcoming novels in both Thursday Next and Shades of Grey
Saviolo
May 2017
#181
Just a grammar point - a 'fictional book' is one that doesn't exist. 'A book of fiction?' :) (n/t)
FreepFryer
May 2017
#31
I cherish my signed first edition of Goldstein's "Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism"
FreepFryer
May 2017
#66
I read them for myself, then read all the books to my first grandson starting at about age 5.
Hekate
May 2017
#124
I'm the opposite - Most of the fiction I read, I will read twice or sometimes more
womanofthehills
May 2017
#100
I don't read like I used to, but everything by Jane Austen and numerous favorites by - Dick Francis.
Rhiannon12866
May 2017
#41
Me too re: Dunces. Such an amazing piece of fiction and Ignatius is a remarkable character.
LonePirate
May 2017
#76
The first time I read it I was living in Queens and working in lower Manhattan.
SeattleVet
May 2017
#87
Yrs ago, I was really into Richard Brautigan and was always rereading his books
womanofthehills
May 2017
#103
Fact-based fiction: In Cold Blood (Truman Capote) and A Fan's Notes (Frederick Exley)...
VOX
May 2017
#62
I was thinking of "Alas, Babylon" recently. Also "No Other Man" - 1950's? post nuclear world
SharonAnn
May 2017
#116
I'm not normally one to re read a book but there are a few that I have to
yellowdogintexas
May 2017
#111
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I've lost count of how many times I've read them...
Hekate
May 2017
#123
Went looking for a particular quote for a thank you note, and am now rereading Thief of Time...
Hekate
May 2017
#211
Shibumi by Rodney Whitaker ("Trevanian"), Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow, and even the one I wrote
DFW
May 2017
#134
My favorites too - every sentence of Tom Robbins is a creative word salad
womanofthehills
May 2017
#186
Nice ... I read all three of the original Shannara's multiple times by the time I was 15 ...
mr_lebowski
May 2017
#218
Irving - Garp, Cider House, Owen Meany, Water Method Man...King - Duma Key
NRaleighLiberal
May 2017
#159
"Good Omens", "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, Clive Barker's "Cabal", among others...
Rhythm
May 2017
#165
The Once and Future King (T.H. White); Go Tell It On the Mountain (Baldwin);
ancianita
May 2017
#169