By Matt for the TIB Network:
Quoth Hugh Hewitt:A modern novel worth reading twice is very hard to come by, at least for a reader like me, pressed for time and inclined to history and current events. I have been through Joseph Epstein's two volumes of short stories twice --Golden Boys and Fabulous Small Jews-- but that's the limit on my short story rereading as well. (All of the collections of Epstein's familiar essays are read and reread and reread by me and thousands of others.)In the last year, I really haven't read any novels...I was neck deep in political analysis/non-fiction...but I have always been a fan of Herman Wouk's War and Rememberance which I have read and re-read several times. It is important to note that W&R is actually a sequel, it stands on its own just fine. I never read Winds of War, but had no problem picking the story up in W&R. Certainly W&R is on my list of recommended novels...
But it seems to me to be a good sign that a serious reader would have reread a modern novel twice...
As a sci-fi fan, I have to nominate Starship Troopers by Heinlein and the 2001: A Space Odyssey series by Clarke.
