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!

If you want to be pinged when I post the thread in the future, respond to this comment in the thread

  • MoonElf [she/her, comrade/them]
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    5 hours ago

    a lifelong bookworm I have read a lot of books but the most reread ones are embarrassing like the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis (the christian allegory stuff flew over my head as a child), the Xanth series by Piers Anthony (the misogyny flew over my head as a child) and Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein (this guy, don't get me started). I can't say I recommend these even though they really formed some of my core identity. I like to think i took the good and left the bad.

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig qualifies though as well as Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Those I do recommend, two of the few books i retain physical copies of!

    Very cool comm delighted to be a part of it and see what you all like!

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]M
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      4 hours ago

      I LOVED Piers Anthony as a kid. Tried to reread my favorite of his as an adult (On a Pale Horse). Big mistake, that shit is not good (and yes wildly misogynistic in the old school way)

      • MoonElf [she/her, comrade/them]
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        4 hours ago

        yeahhhhh loved Incarnations as a kid too. He's just awful though. There's a woman in Xanth whose talent is that over the course of a month she goes from ugly and smart to beautiful and dumb then back again. His characters aren't even two-dimensional bro was raised in point-land.

        • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]M
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          3 hours ago

          I think the thing is that he has genuinely fun ideas and writes so many books that there are always more to read. When you're young the poor execution doesn't matter so much, lol. There are 47 books in the Xanth series. He's still writing them apparently!