Comfort Reads

[affreca]

Finished Bujold's latest today (I love the public library. When I discover a book out by a favorite author, I can check their catalog and reserve it without leaving my couch. I get an email when it is brought in, and go pick it up for free!).

Didn't know what to read afterwards (hair was dirty, need books to bathe). Decided to reread an old favorite, Price of the Stars. Is my favorite space opera. Will loan all three books of main trilogy to any one local who is interested.

So what's your favorite comfort read? You know, the book that you can just keep rereading? Might not be deep, but you know every scene.

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comfort books

[(Anonymous)]

Jaran by Kate Elliott. Fool's War by Sarah Zettel. Catspaw by Joan Vinge. Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Though my absolute favorite comfort book is Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh. Doris

Re: comfort books

[affreca.livejournal.com]

All ones I enjoy reading. But then again, I notice that as I get older, I find my reading favorites getting closer to yours.

[queza7.livejournal.com]

Probably The Outcast of Redwall by Brian Jacques, or Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I've read each one at *least* 10 times. I really need to get a new copy of Outcast, because my 10+ year old paperback is starting to lose pages. (Already got a new copy of Ender's Game last year.)

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Interesting choices. Jacques, like Tamora Pierce, is an author that I ran across to late to really enjoy.

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Last summer, I finally had to replace my copy of Daggerspell. The cover finally was dead. I don't like the new cover art as much.

[queza7.livejournal.com]

That's the thing I hate about replacing books, too. Everyone thinks they have to do something that looks like it's done by a special effects team at Lucasfilm. My new Ender's Game cover annoys me because it has a shiny and fanciful rendition of Ender on it - MY Ender doesn't look like that, thank you very much. I'd rather have the old Big Imposing Spaceship picture than a funny-looking five-year-old, who doesn't fit my idea of the character, controlling a spaceship. Which he never does. ::headdesk::

/end rant :)

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

The Happy Prince, by Oscar Wilde. It is (obviously) a short story, but I cry every time. In terms of a full-length book I would have to say that I have read Harry Potter, vol. 1 *too lazy to type out full title* the most of any book in my life.

There is another book at then edge of my mind that I can't think of right now because I am not near my bookshelf...*sigh*

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. I can really see Harry Potter being a comfort read. Oscar Wilde seems like an odd choice, but I'll admit I've never actually read anything by him.

[annamatic.livejournal.com]

The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Have read it probably 10 times and never tire of it.

[solan-t.livejournal.com]

Which book was this?



I have whole series I consider 'comfort' books. The Belgariad/Mallorean. The Anita Blake series. Pretty much anything by Lois McMaster Bujold.

[solan-t.livejournal.com]

wait wait wait. Passage (The Sharing Knife, Book 3)? How the heck did I miss this?!

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Sharing Knife: Passage came out this month. One more Sharing Knife, then she says we get more Miles.

[lisichance.livejournal.com]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is one of my comfort books as well. I've had my copy since highschool and am working hard not to replace it. My other two are The Last Unicorn and The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle.