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What was a book so good that you have ReRead it?

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  • The entire series of Culture books by Iain M Banks, they're just phenomenally written.

    Others I've reread at least twice:

    Frank Herbert's DUNE series

    Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

    The Thievesworld anthology series

    Alastair Reynolds House of Suns

    William Gibson's Jackpot books

    • Neuromancer might be my favourite cyberpunk book of all time but so far Jackpot has failed to hook me.

      • The appeal is Gibson's writing, he's developed a lot in the intervening decades. IMO he's a much better writer these days than he was at the start of his career. The plot of the Jackpot books might not hook you as much as the sprawl but his writing is great.

        Check out Ian McDonald's River of Gods and Cyberabad Days if you liked Neuromancer, those are in the same vein and exceptionally well imagined. Skip the novella titled Vishnu at the Cat Circus until after River of Gods, it spoils everything set in the India 2047 setting (it's the last thing in the Cyberabad Days collection.)

      • I've liked the Jackpot series, but I absolutely adore the Sprawl series. I also loved the bridge series.

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