Books I Read Again Every Few Years
Submitted by crispin on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:58
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- Walden - Thoreau
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Author Comments:
These are the "Books of My Life" - the ones I fell in love with when I first encountered them, in school or while reading for fun, and years later keep returning to. And, every time I return to them, I find something new in them. I can measure myself by my changing reaction to these books. Now that I'm older I remember how I reacted in a certain way and I find those reactions are so different... These are the books that mirror who I am.
I am reading Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance again at the moment after reading it once long ago. I seem to have no memory of the first reading at all - perhaps because I am not the same person I was then!