Slaughterhouse 5
Flowers for Algernon
Stranger in a Strange Land

This is a 1978 thriller written by Justin Scott. It's the story of a man whose wife dies when their ocean-gong sailboat is run down by the world's largest oil tanker. The man discovers that he doesn't have any legal recourse against the captain or the ship's owners so he decides to sink the tanker.

He buys a new sailboat and outfits it to hunt down the tanker. Through the help of a rogue Mossad agent, he obtains a rocket launcher and chases the tanker across several oceans while he is pursued by various navies from the middle east.

It's a well-written and exciting thriller and the author captures life at sea exquisitely. It has a terrific ending, too!

The first time I read BM I was so enraptured by the language that I missed a great deal. This re-reading was like reading it for the first time. But at one point I had to stop for a week and thought to myself, "Do you have to be slightly insane to write a book like this?" Finally, though, I had a sense of understanding this book, which had puzzled me for ten years.

It is an amazing book.

Long descriptive book. Great long read.

And I love the Church of England series.

Right now, I'm re-reading her "The Rich Are Different." Also engrossing!

eventually adding The Hobbit and Silmarillion.
But nowadays, the irony of being an English phd student is that you really don't read literature.
Instead, it's all theory, all the time!

The whole series!

.... that has ever succeeded in drawing me in so far I felt I was a member of the heroic group the novel is written around.

The Masters of Solitude
by Marvin Kaye and Parke Godwin

Just found this group; looks neat!

We were on vacation on the Redneck Riviera back in June, and I decided to re-read Stieg Larsson's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy...it was just as wonderful as the the last re-read!

I heard recently that another author has written other novels in this franchise since Larsson's death (A HUGE, BIGLY loss to to the literary world, by the way...) Not sure how I feel about someone else continuing the series, but I may check it out...

But I do have some that I listen to over and over as audiobooks: The Hobbit. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich. The Bosch Series by Michael Connelly. Bridget Jones' Diary, although I have to make sure I'm not in a spot where I would disturb someone with the outbursts of laughter from that one.

Those are the ones I can think of, off the top of my head.

When I was middle-school age, I re-read books all the time because I lived in the boonies, with no public libraries for 30 or more miles, and of course no car of my own. That meant I had to make do with the books I had. I probably read All the President's Men 50 times for that reason. There were others, but that was the one I remember re-reading the most.

Nowadays, I have plenty of books to choose from, either treeware or e-books, along with public library access, so I don't re-read books anymore. I can't even remember the last time I re-read something.

But I find with audiobooks, I often go back to 'comfort listens', like the Brother Cadfael series of mysteries.

Re: All the President's Men... I wonder how many youngsters read that and became political junkies. A political report written as a thriller-- great idea!