Books You Can't Stop Reading

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Athene" <athene at h...> wrote:

I love threads like this...

Apart from the obvious (and I'm sad enough to recite HP along with 
Stephen Fry), some of my all time favourites are:

All of Jane Austen, except Mansfield Park.  I know the first proposal 
scene in Pride and Prejudice by heart, and most of Mr Bennet's lines.
The Dark Is Rising
Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
All Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake books
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and also de Berniere's Latin American 
trilogy.  The former still makes me cry everytime, and I could not 
bring myself to go and watch the film because they changed the 
ending.  I must have bought this book for a dozen people over the 
years.
Great Expectations.
LM Montgomery - although I favour the Emily books over Anne.
Children's books too numerous to mention, but I adored Susan 
Coolidge's Katy books when I was a child and still get them out every 
so often.
Dracula
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City sextet.
Bridget Jones' Diary.

I think that I've read all of the above at least 3 times.  I reread 
the whole of Jane Austen at least once a year.  

You'd think with so many other books out there, that rereading would 
take too much time, but I love reading something familiar on a 
regular basis.

Catherine