What do you re-read?

[Blessed-one]

what books are so good that you just have to re-read them?
and do you go from page one to the end or just pick the good part?

i usually pick the good parts for long books.
Re-read: Wheel of time series
Edding's Belgarid and Mallorean series
Harry Potter
Raymond E-Feist's "Magician", "The Darkness at Sethenon" and there's one more but i forgot the name.

 

[MashadaR]

Wheel of Time Series, Really?

I read the first two books and enjoyed them emensely. However, I have read so many consumer reviews about the last few books about how the story was not going anywhere and dragging that it has scared me to proceed with the other 8 books. What's your feedback, Blessed-One?

 

[The Duke]

I usually read through all of the book again. Sometimes I re-read:
Lord of the Rings
A Wrinkle in Time
Chronicles of Narnia

 

[Buskanaka]

i usually re-read every book i own at least once a year

but top of the list would probably be:

The Bitterbynde Trilogy -Cecilia Dart-thornton
LOTR
The Song of Albion Series - Stephen Lawhead
Merlin-Stephen Lawhead

 

[Nomadic Logic]

I've re-read Blind Man's Bluff numerous times. It's a history of submarine espionage, and it's deinitely a page turner.

 

[Letalis]

I've read all the Harry Potter books at least 10 times each.

 

[alaurie]

Mary Stewart - Merlin Trilogy
C.S. Lewis - Space Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, Till We Have Faces
Corrie ten Boom - The Hiding Place
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House books
Philip Yancy - Disappointment with God
E.M. Forester - Howard's End
All of Jane Austen!
Maeve Binchey- Italian Classes, Echos, The Lilac Bus

 

[Ovda]

Chronicles of Narnia, This Present Darkness, Dracula, Phantom of the Opera

 

[Blessed-one]

However, I have read so many consumer reviews about the last few books about how the story was not going anywhere and dragging that it has scared me to proceed with the other 8 books. What's your feedback, Blessed-One?

no way!! you haven't gotten to the best part yet. My fav are book 4 and 7. Trust me there, even if it's long winded, it's such an epic. well worth the read.

The Bitterbynde Trilogy -Cecilia Dart-thornton

i'm gonna go check out the Cecilia books, your review of it has me interested. Too many words, lol.

 

[Buskanaka]

i'm gonna go check out the Cecilia books, your review of it has me interested. Too many words, lol.

hehe cool, it's probably the most original and creative fantasy series I've ever read.

 

[kermit the toad]

1984 and Animal Farm (both by George Orwell).

 

[lozzie]

Wizards First Rule - Terry Goodkind
The Song of the Lioness Quartet - Tamora Pierce
Ash: A legendary history - Mary Gentle (however, this book has the worst language I've ever seen in a book, by that i mean swearing)

 

[Pope Gonzo]

I regularly re-read Ender's Game and its series and parallel series. Regularly.

I re-read the Harry Potter books for the sake of picking up details I missed the first time around.

Since people were talking about Wheel of Time, I'll put in my first two cents. I haven't read them, but I know a good number of people who are. I trust my brother's book advice very much, and he said that books 4-6 were basically a dull repeat of 1-3 and he heard the same about 7-9. A faithful WoT fan who is a very good friend of mine says he's very exhasperated over the recent books and if they don't start picking up/improving, he's going to give up on the series. As for me, there's nothing really making me want to read them

 

[stonetoflesh]

I used to re-read books all the time-- loads of fantasy and spy novels mostly. Nowadays I'll only re-read a book if it's one of the few fiction books or series I really, really love-- providing it's not going to be an enormous drain on my time. (Among the last few re-reads I did were Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber and Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun.) For non-fiction, I re-read authors or works that I feel have some direct bearing on my life at the moment. John Eldredge, CS Lewis, and Hermann Hesse readily come to mind as examples of nonfiction re-reads.

On the Wheel of Time note... I loved that series through the first 4 books. By the time I reached the end of Book 6, I decided that this was the most bloated series I had ever undertaken; more and more random characters and subplots were added in, and it just seemed like it was beginning to stall out. I don't think Jordan even knows how this thing is going to end, I don't know if he's in thrall to his publisher, or he's having a contest with Terry Goodkind to see who can churn out the most pages or what; all I know is that thousands of pages of filler does not equal "epic" in my mind. I have friends and relations who love this series and are dying for the next one to come out, but I just don't even care anymore...

 

[CeeBee]

Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, Redwall.

 

[Volos]

Every summer during heat wave I re-read “The Fifth Sacred Thing” by Starhawk.

 

[Ashlynn]

Interpreter of Maladies

 

[Cordelia]

Gone with the Wind, just about every year

Any Jane Austen and Anne Rice books, also.

 

[lullalullaby]

oh many childhood books but those I particularly remember...when i was younger.. christopher pike books.. until i donated them. Really enjoyed them for some reason... hmm lol

 

[Iollain]

I love reading Lucy Maud Montgomery books, the Emily series is my favourite. I read them every few years.