 Welcome to Church of the Chair where the only thing better than reading a great novel is rereading it. I'm your host E and today we're repeating ourselves. This is going to be another discussion video so no edits this time around, we're just going to jump right into the topic and that topic is the books that I have enjoyed rereading the most. I went into this, not challenge, but this topic with a couple things in mind. I could make this all about Stephen King, which my buddy Derek, who is a long time viewer of the channel, and even a member of the channel, brought up he would like to hear my top five or the Stephen King books that I like to reread the most and I will probably end up doing that eventually, but I got to thinking about it and I talk about how many times I've read Stephen King's books, every single book he's released up until fairytale, I have read no less than three times and the one that I've read the most is it at 18 times and the 19th one is probably coming up pretty soon because I just miss reading the book. Or I could have went along the lines of my just books that I have reread. I have reread quite a few books in my lifetime and they don't always hold up so I figured I would pick my favorite ones to reread instead of just listing off all the books I have reread. Also since this is a discussion video, I hope to see you guys down there in the comments telling me books that you love to reread read a second time, third time, so on and so forth. Also I want to hear from people who do not like to reread books and I want to know why you don't like rereading books. For me it's absolutely no difference between rereading my favorite books or watching a movie that I have seen multiple times. I've seen Howard the Duck hundreds of times and yes no hyperbole, no exaggeration, it is my favorite movie of all time. I've probably watched it easily, easily over a hundred times because I've worn out three VHS tapes and one DVD and I have a new DVD and a blu-ray of it. So I'm a little bit of a fanboy when it comes to Howard the Duck but it's a very special movie to me. So I picked out one, two, three, four, five books that I'm constantly picking up over and over again especially when I need a comfort read and I think at least three of them are going to be surprises because I don't talk about these books a whole hell of a lot and I probably should talk about them more. The first one that I picked up is Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. You guys know I'm not too much into police procedurals, or detective fiction or anything like that but this book blew me away the first time and I've been rereading it ever since. I even have this wonderfully beautiful limited edition from, no it's Sunt Up, I have this one, there should be an unboxing on the channel if you're interested in that. Francis Dollarhide, the serial killer in this book is one of the best villains of all time. In fact I believe you go back to my Top 5 Friday video about my favorite villains of all time, he's in there. I really enjoyed Manhunter which was the first adaptation of this book. I did enjoy the Edward Norton reboot with Anthony Hopkins finally playing Hannibal Lecter again, whereas Brian Cox was in Manhunter. But my favorite portrayal of Francis Dollarhide is from the TV series Hannibal, absolutely amazed me. I loved it, they got everything right, they did change quite a bit, don't get me wrong, but I still absolutely loved it. And also I would say that it's the closest one to the book as far as certain scenes are concerned. But yeah, this one I've read the entire Hannibal series all the way up to the Hannibal Rising, I'm not interested in that one whatsoever, I tried reading Kara Mori, that book, I couldn't even get into it, so those of you who've been waiting like 5 years for my review of that one, it ain't going to happen. But yeah, I love rereading Red Dragon, I blow through it in just a couple of days, it is easy to read fiction, but it also has more literary depth than your usual thriller. The next one is one of my favorite books of all time, it's not in the top 20 anymore, you guys have seen the new top 20, but this one will always hold a special place in my heart and that's Twilight Eyes by Dean R. Coontz, the joke goes, as soon as he dropped the R from his name he dropped something special. But anyways this is a story of Slim Mackenzie joining a carnival shortly after the assassination of JFK and it is, I don't know what else to say about this book, this book is amazing, but for me the book ends about page 250-300, Dean Coontz originally published Twilight Eyes without the other half that's outside of the carnival and then he came back later and put the book all together, but for me when Slim leaves the carnival that is the end of the story and I've read that at least a dozen times. I would say actually it's probably more like 20 at this point, but I always go through, anytime I'm feeling like I want a very quick carnival story I just pick this one up and it's not superfluous, but it is light enough reading that I can blow right through it at any given time. My favorite scene in here is, I don't want to talk too much about it, but one of the worst sex scenes Dean Coontz has ever written comes from this book and I quote the line all the time, if you guys have been a fan of the channel for any amount of time, or before I left Twitter what I quoted, yeah it's in this book, I just find how absurd the scene is and I love reading it even though it is hella cringe, but yeah if you have not read Twilight Eyes I highly suggest you try that one especially if you're someone who doesn't like the new Dean Coontz stuff and I'm talking like the last 20 years of Dean Coontz, definitely pick up Twilight Eyes, it's a lot of fun, especially those first 2-300 pages, just remember for me the book is over once he leaves the carnival. Next up is one that I harp on all the time, I think this author is our second greatest living short story writer, I'm also really enjoying her novel right now, but I'm still so in love with the short stories, I doubt I'll ever find anything to top it, other than Clive Barker's Books of Blood and that's what I always say, this one is number 2 for my favorite short story author, because Clive Barker's Books of Blood are just perfect, but that is Things We Lost in the Fire by Mediana Anurikes, my second favorite short story of all time is in here and that is Under the Black Water, my first place would go to Clive Barker's In the Cities, The Hills, but this one if you're looking for subtle, terrifying, literary horror, this is the best place you could possibly look for short stories, I've never read anything like her stuff and Under the Black Water is one of those insidious stories that gets under your skin and just stays there, but yeah she's easily one of my new favorite authors and I'm hoping that more of her stuff gets translated, so far we've got The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our, which is another her first short story collection which was translated into English second and then this one her second one which was translated first and then we have her 600 page novel Our Share of Night that I'm currently reading and enjoying, but yeah, you can't go wrong with this collection of stories and I've never understood the cover, I mean I know it kind of ties in because of Things We Lost in the Fire theme, but at the same time I don't know, I wanted a little bit more and I was surprised that my second favorite short story collection of all time was wrapped in this package because it's a little boring for how amazing the interior is. Next up we have my favorite Chuck Pollinic book hands down over and done with I haven't read one better than this one yet and that is Invisible Monsters by Chuck Pollinic. If you guys don't know I don't care much for Fight Club. I like the movie alright, but the book didn't really do anything for me and yes I get the satire all that stuff I get that it's just it's not as much fun as books like this like Choke, Survivor, Lullaby, all those other books I feel are so much better than Fight Club, but of course because Fight Club was the huge David Fincher movie you know most people know about that book, but this one I would love to see a movie adaptation of this one and I just hope that they'd get it right. If you don't know it's a story about a person with a disfigured face in the modeling and fashion model industry kind of deal. Favorite ending of all of Chuck Pollinic's books is in this one a close second would be Choke, but the less you know about this book going into it the more fun you were going to have. But yeah I reread this one I would say at least I just read it last reread it last year I would say I've been rereading it at least once every two years since I first read it in 2010 I think anyways but yeah don't read any blurbs or anything else just go out and get this one if you have not already read it it is a wild wild ride. Now we are gonna take a break for a second because it is currently 102 degrees and I am not editing this video so y'all get to watch me wipe my face off with a towel. The next book that I'm gonna talk about I've talked about it before it is the second longest book that I have ever reread most of these books are relatively short they're under 400 pages and of course it by Stephen King is 1100 pages just under 1100 pages this one is see here it is almost it's it's 771 pages and I've read I've read it reread it so far eight times and that is The Gold Finch by Donna Tartt I have talked about this book a lot so I'm not going to go into great detail just know that the story of Theo and Boris's friendship has stayed with me since I first read it and I have read it all the way through eight additional times after the first one but I don't always reread the entire thing so but I've read it all the way through that many times but the number of times that I've just picked it up and read my favorite passages I have a paperback that's in the house that is the pages are dog-eared I really need to invest in those little stickers that you put on books but I will go back and I will reread my favorite scenes I do the same thing with Stephen King's it and of course it is not here because I wanted to stay away from Stephen King for this one but if you want to see like Derek mentioned if you want to see me do a video solely about my favorite Stephen King books to reread I'll probably leave it out of it because I don't want to harp on that one but if you guys want to see that let me know down there in the comments I may not respond to each and every one of you guys but I do read every single comment that comes through but yeah that's all the time I have for you today please let me know the books that you love to reread down there in the I still want to say description it's like the fourth video in the road that in the row that I've done this down there in the comments let me know and I like said I especially want to hear from you guys who don't like to reread and I want to know why you don't like to reread books also another thing is if you don't like to reread books do you like to rewatch movies do you like to redo anything replay video games you've already played I want to hear from you guys especially you guys who don't like to reread I want to know why why don't you go back to your favorite stuff all the time or do you you just don't read the whole thing those are my questions for you let me know down there in the comments but until next time I'll hell the chair