Books You Can't Stop Reading (was Crushes...)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "jenny from ravenclaw" <meboriqua at a...> 
wrote:

> Are there books that you have read so many times you *still* know 
> chunks by heart?  Are you also unable to explain why?

Authors I loved in childhood include E. Nesbitt/Bland and Edward 
Eager. The popularity of HP has led to modern reprinting of EE, 
enabling me to send some of his books to my goddaughter as her Xmas 
prezzie last year -- and of course I read them before I wrapped them, 
by which I noticed that they were even better than I remembered. At 
THAT price ($6 paperbacks!!!!), they had BETTER be! I also read 
the Green Knowles book that someone mentioned on this thread, and 
another book that involved a Victorian sampler that was embroidered 
with hairs from family members instead of embroidery thread. But my 
FAVORITE probably was Andre Norton, who had outer space and a proper 
appreciation of CATS.

But I don't recall having read any of those books over and over. I 
read Sherlock Holmes over and over but no longer remember any chunks 
of it.

What I remember great chunks of, is THE MASKS OF GOD, a four volume 
series by Joseph Campbell (the one who made that TV show with Bill 
Moyers) that I read a million times between age 25 and age 35.