Compulsive books

[lobelia321]

These are not my top ten although there is some overlap here with my top ten. These are books I have compulsively read and re-read with lustful intensity:

1) Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (read at least 15 times)
2) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (15 times)
3) Jane Austen, Emma (12 times)
4) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (12 times)
5) Jane Austen, Persuasion (10 times)
6) Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (5 times)
7) Andrea De Carlo, Cream Train (8 times)
8) William Goldman, The Princess Bride (8 times)
9) Frederick Kohen, Gidget (10 times)
10) Ursula Le Guin, The Wizard of Earthsea (8 times)
11) Ursula Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (8 times)
12) Ursula Le Guin, The Farthest Shore (8 times)
13) C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (15 times)
14) C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (12 times)
15) C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (10 times)
16) Astrid Lindren, Kalle Blomquist and sequels (12 times)
17) Christine Nostlinger, Gretchen Sackmeier and sequels (8 times)
18) Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy (twice, so far -- but with lots of lustful intensity)
19) In girlhood: Karl May, Winnetou, all 3 vols -- and I'm still waiting for Winnetou slash. *sigh*, Winnetou / Old Shatterhand, my first OTP (and I was only aged 8!)

Where is LotR? Well, that plays a different role in my life and figures on a different list, *g*.

Comments

[gloriamundi.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad it's not just me.^TM

Not with those particular books, you understand: but when I read something I like, I will often as not turn straight back to page 1 when I've finished reading ... and re-read it five or six times in the next few months ...

I do it with fics, too. This is worrying.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't even get me started on the fics...!!!

*And* the level of lustful intensity ratchets up with fics as well... *g*