For a great book ought to not be read but once. As stated in a previous Away Message:
Reductio ad absurdum:
Orwell/Carroll/Orwell/Tolstoy/Unknown/Waller/Dostoevsky/Chaucer/Dickens/Dumas/Dostoevsky/Marx/Dickens/Mann/Hubbard/Frank/Johnson/Dante/Cervantes/Stevenson/Stoker/Bradbury/Turgenev/Friedan/Hemingway/Rand/Shelley/Steinbeck/Dickens/Fitzgerald/Seuss/Rowling/Conrad/Doyle/Twain/Hugo/Dostoevsky/Homer/Freud/Ellison/Benchley/Alcott/Nabokov/Golding/Kafka/Eliot/Melville/Homer/Steinbeck/Dickens/Kerouac/Kesey/Darwin/Woolf/Milton/Wilde/Austen/Plato/Rushdie/Hawthorne/Austen/Eliot/Carson/Lawrence/Shikibu/Dickens/Lao-Tzu/Hardy/Dumas/Nietzsche/Lee/Woolf/Stevenson/Joyce/Susann/Thoreau/Tolstoy/London/Baum