So what IS your favourite book?

[Ozme52]

I guess when I read for enlightenment and knowledge, I absorb in a way that I rarely think about the book itself... and they all commingle and combine to create my own personal perspective and awareness of the world around me... the universe I live it.

When I read for entertainment, with rare exceptions, once the book is done, it's done. Even those I poured through in short order... barely more than an entertaining movie.

So my 'favorite' has to be those stories that bring me back to reread over and over again.

The Lensman Series - Seven books by E.E. Doc Smith. Space opera from the 1930's.

and

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card.

I enjoy them afresh, every time I crack them open.

[Thorne]

I guess when I read for enlightenment and knowledge, I absorb in a way that I rarely think about the book itself... and they all commingle and combine to create my own personal perspective and awareness of the world around me... the universe I live it.

When I read for entertainment, with rare exceptions, once the book is done, it's done. Even those I poured through in short order... barely more than an entertaining movie.

So my 'favorite' has to be those stories that bring me back to reread over and over again.

The Lensman Series - Seven books by E.E. Doc Smith. Space opera from the 1930's.

and

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card.

I enjoy them afresh, every time I crack them open.

Funny, but even though I've been reading science fiction my whole life I've never really been able to get into either of those series. I remember reading the original "Ender's Game" when it was a novella in Analog magazine, I believe. It did nothing for me.

I know when I was younger, and poorer I suppose, I could read some books more than once and still enjoy them. LOTR was one of those. I probably read it at least four times when in my 20's. But now I find I'd much rather find something new than go back to something I've read before.