Every week, I'll be making a pinned post inviting you to share your favorite books with the slop-hungry hogs of Hexbear yummy. Each week will be loosely structured around a particular genre, time period or other theme .

For the opening week's theme: Books you have read at least three times

Optional nerd discussion questions

What keeps or kept you coming back to them? How did your relationship to the text change across multiple readings?

If you have suggestions for future themes, DM me!

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  • erik [he/him]
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    6 hours ago

    Never feeling more like the normie of the site than reading these answers. You guys re-read some incredibly dense and/or challenging books on the reg.

    Mine is a simple pleasurable book by Kevin Murphy of MST3K fame (he voiced Tom Servo from season 2-10). A Year at the Movies. His goal was no matter what he was doing, where he was, what day it was, he had to see a film. Film, as in celluloid, once a day for a year. This involved doing things like sneaking a Thanksgiving turkey into a film theater and taking a small film projector with him hiking. The book is a diary of sorts of him taking on this self-imposed challenge and each chapter covers roughly a week. Repeats are allowed, so he ends up seeing some films that no one should have to see more than once many times, but given his "day job", this isn't much of a problem for him.

    It's a very silly book, which is why it's so easy to pick up and just re-read. Murphy is a delightful life-long midwesterner and genuinely, deeply, loves movies.