Re-reading?

[searchingsoul]

How many of you read books over and over again. I have read a number of books enough times to make my sister agitated at the fact that I'm reading it again.

 

[kevin36]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with rereading a book that you enjoy, and you can tell your sister that I said so...

There are several books that I have read more than once and more that I plan to read again in the future.

God Bless

 

[BoxBunny]

I love re-reading. My books are like friends to me and you don't discard a good friend to collect dust on a shelf.

I've read the Wheel of Time series so many times I've had to tape some of the covers back on multiple times with ducktape.

 

[kevin36]

Hey, if you can't fix something with ducktape it can't be fixed...

 

[Diane_Windsor]

I rarely re-read fiction books, but there are some non-fiction books that I re-read (though not the entire way through).

 

[stormydawn]

There are more books I reread than those I don't. Basically, any book I enjoy will be read again, at least once more.

 

[gesundheit]

I've read a number of books more than twice. Especially those of some of my favorite authors.

I just finished reading The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton for about the 3rd or 4th time.

 

[The Theory]

Re-reading is great, as long as it doesn't become a comfort zone where you are afraid to read and try new things.

Some books you HAVE to re-read because you miss things first time around. Harry Potter is a good example of this.

 

[gesundheit]

I'm one of those people who get really involved with a few authors. Like Chesterton, who I think is amazing.

I'm that way with music too.

 

[sister_maynard]

Rereading can be a great way to relax because you already know the shape of the story and can just relax, and some great books simply demand to be reread because they have so much to say. It's really not a problem unless you're rereading old things more than you're trying new things. That sort of habit can prevent you from discovering lots of new and exciting things if it gets out of hand.

 

[Da_Funkey_Gibbon]

Rereading is good, especially if it's a book that deserves or even demands a rereading.

 

[kittysbecute]

I read a lot of books. Therefore most of them I do not read again. But many many books that I liked a lot, or had a desire to read again I did so.
If it's a good book, it's good to read it again. Especially if you own the book. There's no reason to have a book sitting around that you won't read again, unless you are saving it for someone else to read.


One book that I like to read a lot is Ella Enchanted. One time I couldn't sleep at night, so I just took out the book and read through it, skipping through some parts so that i could quickly read it all that night.


There are some other books like Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, and Through the Looking Glass by Carroll, and Winnie the Pooh by Milne, that I love to read, and many times will look through them for random parts to read, or to read the poems/songs in them.

 

[Blessed-one]

there're two reasons that I reread books.

1. They're entertaining/inspirational/educational enough to be reread.

2. I need a reread to catch things I've missed in the first read.

 

[Becky153]

I'll re-read any book. There are some books that I have almost memorized from re-reading. My favorite books to re-read, though, are the Song of Albion trilogy books

 

[radhead]

I did more reading as a kid. Here are some of the ones I used to re-read a lot...

A Wrinkle in Time

Stuart Little

Trumpet of the Swan

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing / Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

A Taste of Blackberries

The Midnight Fox

Danny the Champion of the World

 

[IzzyPop]

I re-read almost everything. Some stuff is just that good, some needs a second go through to get the different level, and some because I'm at a different point in life, so maybe I will find different stuff on those other levels or I will understand things now that I didn't then. The best are the ones that capture more then one of the above reasons. I usually read a new Discworld novel twice in a row. The first time for the story and the second for all the nuances and levels.

 

[wiggsfly]

There are a few books I've re-read, but for the most part I usually don't.

 

[Jeriel]

Depends on how good the book is I suppose. I read Romeo and Juliet like 3 times because I kept getting more out of it each time. I read the LOTR series about 3 times simply because I loved the story. I want to go back and read some that I read when I was younger, though, because I would understand them better now.

 

[Asterisk]

I only re-read certain kinds of books. Ones that are all about suspense and stuff aren't usually worth it.

 

[GrinningDwarf]

It depends upon the book. My theology books get reread several times and all marked up with notes, just like a textbook. Most fiction in my library doesn't get reread, with a few exceptions like The Lord of the Rings.

When I took a lit class in college, one of the books we read was Dad. The instructor encouraged us to read it through at least once on our own before we got to it in the class. I was the only person in the class who did, and I tell you, a second reading makes a big difference in noticing everything the writer did to construct the story. With a second reading, you really see fore-shadowing and symbolism effects.

I'm currently starting to reread the Horatio Hornblower series. I read several of them when I was a teenager, and now I'm reading them again along with my ten-year-old son.