tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post8876045358832754520..comments2024-03-28T20:43:00.579-05:00Comments on Uncanny Valley: What Single Book Have You Read The Most Times?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-2597082090562101782012-07-29T12:15:46.813-05:002012-07-29T12:15:46.813-05:00That would have to be In Watermelon Sugar by Richa...That would have to be In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. My father gave it to me when I was about 7 years old and I have read it at least once a year ever since, so 25+ times. It's like comfort food.<br /><br />BTW, to answer your comment it's Double Take at 320 Aztec Street, Santa Fe. It has so many sections from fine designer and vintage to ranch/cowboy, a huge space of regular thrift, and upstairs full of vintage home goods, and another upstairs with fine art.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11947706419740896875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-75111941353397279252012-07-05T18:31:57.343-05:002012-07-05T18:31:57.343-05:00There's two I keep coming back to:
-A clockwor...There's two I keep coming back to:<br />-A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess, which never fails to amaze me with the inventiveness of its language, how far Burgess goes with it and yet it's still really manageable.<br /><br />-The Master and Marguerita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. It showed me stuff I didn't know you could do when I first read it, and I was deeply saddened when I finished it, thinking I would never again read that ending for the first time. Then I reread it, several times, and although it wasn't the first time anymore it still amazed me.Armel Dagornhttp://armeldagorn.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67881661576743990.post-585735480770984562012-06-18T08:31:34.500-05:002012-06-18T08:31:34.500-05:00The first novel I bought after I left school—i.e. ...The first novel I bought after I left school—i.e. the first grownup novel I was not made to read—was from a small newsagents on Burn’s Square in Ayr. I was sixteen at the time and it cost me 35p. That would be in 1975 and I still own that original Penguin edition. I have read it roughly every ten years since. It was <i>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich</i> by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. <br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com