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?

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  • Wertheimer [any]
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    3 hours ago

    I've probably read Catch-22 twelve times. Each new time I read it I rediscover a line that I accidentally stole that became part of my main phrasebook. Like calling people "shameful unscrupulous opportunists."

    In recent years Thomas Bernhard is my most frequent reread. The Loser, Woodcutters, Old Masters, Concrete, Wittgenstein's Nephew. I need to get my shit together and actually read him in German.

    The serieseses I've reread the most are Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Raymond Chandler's novels.

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 used to be frequent rereads, but now I only tend to go back to parts of them. '72 used to be a quadrennial tradition.

    I'm always rereading the Greeks, which is helped by the ease of finding pocket-sized editions.