What is your "That Book"?

[Clive Howlitzer]

The Dresden Files. I could read them all day, every day. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

Do they get better? I really liked them at first but I am at book 10 right now and I am starting to find it tiresome. It seems like he pushes it way too often to include combat scenes every 30 pages. It is also starting to become a bit formulaic and the character shields are starting to grind on me too.
I do want to keep reading them though, just wondering if he breaks out of the rut he seems to have gotten in.
On topic, Romance of Three Kingdoms. I have read it like 5 times.

 

[Minjoltr]

Red Dwarf. It's not particularly good but I enjoy it. It's a sort of security blanket book which I take on trips abroad just to keep a little bit of a familiar world with me.

 

[Avaloner]

I like the dark tower series from stephen King maybe along with the LotR trilogy.

The tower is just so full packed with..well everything that I think you actually need to read it twice to get most of it, seeing how Stephen King loves to throw you off with flashbacks and visions it just completes the experience.

 

[DJDarque]

The Dresden Files. I could read them all day, every day. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

Do they get better? I really liked them at first but I am at book 10 right now and I am starting to find it tiresome. It seems like he pushes it way too often to include combat scenes every 30 pages. It is also starting to become a bit formulaic and the character shields are starting to grind on me too.
I do want to keep reading them though, just wondering if he breaks out of the rut he seems to have gotten in.
On topic, Romance of Three Kingdoms. I have read it like 5 times.

Eh. You probably wouldn't find the newer ones much better. Almost the entire final third of Changes is a giant battle scene.

 

[n00beffect]

Mephisto, by Klaus Mann and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I just love both of their narratives, such skilled writers! Also J.D. Sallinger's Catcher in the Rye, and I know I am gonna sound like a complete fanboy twat here when I mention this, but I also really like Yahtzee's book Mogworld. It's hilarious! Just finnished reading it just recently, so it just popped-up in my mind xD

Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention, Christopher Marlowe's adaptation of Dr Faust. I know it's a play, rather than a literary piece, but it's just so well written and easy to read, I had to read it at least twice! (And I am talking about the 1604 text)

 

[Camarii]

I've made a habbit or rereadng everything I like... but there is some special ones I can't get enough of (impossible to say just one) so here we go:
The Dragonlance and the Death Gate series by Margareth Weis and Tracy Hickman
Ink Exchange by Marissa Marr
The Amazing Maurice and his educated roddents by Terry Pratchett
The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by (duh) Douglas Adams
and the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik

 

[Nightmare-Child]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Also Changes, a novel in the The Dresden Files.

 

[TornadoFive]

Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy. Something about that sarcastic demon just really rubs me the right way...

I just finished reading them through again! I'd forgotten how good they were! The little footnotes he gives get me every time!

OT. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. One of the best books I have ever read, that manages to take a sensitive topic and treat it with the right amount of reverence and mockery to create a perfect blend of humour and thoughtfulness.

 

[RESURRECTION21]

lol i see what you did there

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I have a lot but two from the top of my head are the Bartimaeus trilogy or the Earthborn wars.
I advise you read them among a few dozen others of my favorites.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

The Dresden Files. I could read them all day, every day. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

Do they get better? I really liked them at first but I am at book 10 right now and I am starting to find it tiresome. It seems like he pushes it way too often to include combat scenes every 30 pages. It is also starting to become a bit formulaic and the character shields are starting to grind on me too.
I do want to keep reading them though, just wondering if he breaks out of the rut he seems to have gotten in.
On topic, Romance of Three Kingdoms. I have read it like 5 times.

Eh. You probably wouldn't find the newer ones much better. Almost the entire final third of Changes is a giant battle scene.

That sucks. I really like the setting of the books and a lot of the characters. I just prefer the detective aspects more so than the action hero aspects.

 

[Cheesus333]

Noughts & Crosses. My favourite book, easily. When I first read it it was just going to be something to read every now and then, but I couldn't put it down at all. Read it in four hours flat and cried at the ending.

Definitely recommend this one.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

The Dark Tower + the Stand. not a single year where i dont read those masterpieces.
As well as Pratchett and Gaimans Good Omens love that one so much.

 

[Crystalite]

The Lord of the Rings.
I know its a geeky answer, but everytime I feel down, I read that book again.
An amazing complex story of hope and an amazing use of the english language.

Not much to say about it...
If I where stranded somewhere, I would want that book with me above all others.

 

[BoTTeNBReKeR]

Playboy keeps me coming back for more...

OT: the Dwarves by Markus Heitz and Orcs by Stan Nicholls

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Apart from Paradise Lost and La Divina Commedia, there isn't a single work of fiction that I had the urge to read twice. (Not Dan Brown, not Tolkien.)

Non-fictional works on the other hand... I've got stuff like "True Crime", "The Dictionary of the Skeptic" and quite a few books on demonology and dead religions that I pick up from time to time.

 

[Susurrus]

Hitchikers, until I read it to death. Night Watch, by Pratchett, as well as The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, are both good. The whole Flashman series, by MacDonald Fraser, as well as his wwii autobiographical work, "Quartered Safe Out Here". Also, Deadhouse Gates, by Steven Erikson.

All of those I've read at least four times, some as many as fifteen to twenty times..

 

[Incomer]

The Long Walk by Stephen King. Well He actually wrote as Bachman. There is just something special about it. Maybe its the length (nowhere near his usual) maybe it's the main hero (lately he prefers older guys) or it's the actual topic of the book. All in all its pretty good read

 

[Loner Jo Jo]

Though Christopher Moore is my favorite author, the only book I have ever re-read is Flowers for Algernon. I've read it three times now, and it's a beautiful book. Poignant and gut-wrenching -- it's the only book that has ever made me cry.

 

[brunothepig]

You know that book you just keep guming back. That book that just hits the spot for you.
It dosent have to be just one book, it can be a series if you want.
For me its the Artemis Fowl from Eoin Colfer! Its just something about elfs with jetpacks and laser guns that just does it for me

I actually have a fair few, and that series is one of them.
Matthew Reilly. Any of his books, just brilliant.
Tamora Pierce, mainly her latest two series, the Trickster ones and Beka Cooper.
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy.
The Bartimaeus Trilogy, now with a sequel to that, by Jonathon Stroud.
Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling.
Some Dean Koontz books, The Husband, The Good Guy and Velocity come to mind.
Inheritance Trilogy, Christopher Paolini.
Both of Darren Shan's series'. The Demonata and Shan Saga.
Rangers Apprentice, John Flanagan.
Alex Rider series, Anthoney Horowitz.

I'd say it's rare for me to only read those series once a year.