kidsmoke Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Name me a book you wish you could entirely erase from your memory, simply so that you could discover it again as if for the first time. A book so good you wish it could be brand-new to you again. I'll go with "The Brothers K" by David James Duncan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chisoxjtrain Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 The entire Harry Potter series. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Infinite Jest - DFW Quote Link to post Share on other sites
a-me-with-a-you Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Name me a book you wish you could entirely erase from your memory, simply so that you could discover it again as if for the first time. A book so good you wish it could be brand-new to you again. I'll go with "The Brothers K" by David James Duncan This looks good. I added it to my want-to-read list. I've never had much urges to re-read a books (though I did do that with Love in the Time of Cholera just to highlight all my favorite parts) so my entry in this list would be blank in that sense, in another sense I wish I could transport myself back to age 18 when I was cracking open all the Dark Tower books (Stephen King). There are better books but just the wonder turning each page at that age was amazing. This is in a kind of way me concurring with the above poster suggesting the Harry Potter series (of which I read the first four and then stopped). I do immediately regret that books can't go on forever sometimes like Catch-22. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 This looks good. I added it to my want-to-read list. I've never had much urges to re-read a books (though I did do that with Love in the Time of Cholera just to highlight all my favorite parts) so my entry in this list would be blank in that sense, in another sense I wish I could transport myself back to age 18 when I was cracking open all the Dark Tower books (Stephen King). There are better books but just the wonder turning each page at that age was amazing. This is in a kind of way me concurring with the above poster suggesting the Harry Potter series (of which I read the first four and then stopped). I do immediately regret that books can't go on forever sometimes like Catch-22. I know exactly what you mean. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Dharma BumsCatcher in the RyeUnbearable Lightness of BeingHouse of Leaves also Danny Champion of the World. I can't wait until my daughter is old enough so we can read it together. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 A Prayer For Owen Meany and The Cider House Rules, John IrvingAtonement, Ian McEwanVarious books by Hunter S ThompsonThe Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doug C Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 A Prayer for Owen Meany, no question. I was pleasantly surprised to see it already mentioned. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 A Prayer for Owen Meany, no question. I was pleasantly surprised to see it already mentioned.It's funny. That's probably the 6th Irving I've read and the first I didn't really like. Maybe if it was my first taste of his work I'd like it more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Griddles Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 House of Leaves Second. I have reread this and will probably do so again. I would also say Against the Day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 Second. I have reread this and will probably do so again. I would also say Against the Day. Author? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doug C Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 It's funny. That's probably the 6th Irving I've read and the first I didn't really like. Maybe if it was my first taste of his work I'd like it more.That is interesting. My first Irving was The World According to Garp, but that was when I was young and I read it after I saw the movie version.. I didn't read Irving again until A Prayer For Owen Meany came out. A friend had read it and raved, so I read it. I've been hooked on John Irving ever since. I've never enjoyed a book more. I've definitely enjoyed many books before and after, but there was something about Owen... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robby Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 The original Dune series by Frank Herbert.Except I can't say that I would like to erase them from my mind as I still continue to enjoy reading them again and again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 A Clockwork Orange Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 It probably wouldn't hit me the same way now, that it did when I was 12/13, but I haven't had a book hit me in the same way that I fell in love with Lord of the Rings. I can still remember reading the bulk of The Two Towers in the back of our station wagon on a long trip back from Michigan. We were driving through rain most of the way. I didn't see Gandalf's return coming, so that was awesome. If there's a thrill I wish I could relive, it would be that. Hated the movies. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 There are so many. It makes me sad that I used to read so many more books than I do now. I'm still an insatiable reader, but more short pieces these days. Maybe if I can ever retire I'll get my book reading mojo back. Anyway, two that immediately spring to mind are John Updike's Rabbit Run--and all its successors--and Catcher in the Rye. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 "Deliverance" by James Dickey. Seriously, this is a wonderful piece of literature. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 "Deliverance" by James Dickey. Seriously, this is a wonderful piece of literature.Read it. It was pretty good. ed. Thought you would've said the Bible, actually. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Griddles Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Author?House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski Against the Day Thomas Pynchon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 City of Thieves - David Benioff Life After Life - Kate Atkinson Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski Against the Day Thomas Pynchon. Thanks, Griddles, those are going on my want-to-read list. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Everything Kurt Vonnegut ever wrote, but primarily God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Galapagos and Sirens of Titan. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 A Prayer for Owen Meany, no question. I was pleasantly surprised to see it already mentioned. but there was something about Owen... Yes! Owen Meany. What a wonderful, beautiful book that would be to discover again. I will add to that: The World According to Garp - Irving (still cry when I re-read it)Sometimes A Great Notion - Ken KeseyDavid Copperfield - Dickens No doubt I will think of more to post over the coming days. Great thread idea! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied lightning Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Bill Graham- Presents Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Peace Like a River, Leif Enger and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Both for the language/style they were written in. Two of the few books with such excellently-worded text and vivid imagery that I frequently paused my reading just to appreciate both characteristics more so. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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