What book do you reread the most?

Rest_In_Pieces · Post by **Rest_In_Pieces** » 12 May 2011, 13:49

Bighuey wrote:
Rest_In_Pieces wrote:
Bighuey wrote:For me I would have to say H.P. Lovecraft, I never get tired of reading his stuff, a close second would be the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Those are highy re-readable indeed. I'd go for something from my childhood. Jules Verne or something like that.
You sound like me. I read Verne's Journey to the Center Of the Earth and Off on a Comet when I was in high school and I would like to read them again. They are great re-reads.

Yeah, I've noticed we have quite some similarities, even though there is a huge age difference. Funny how that works.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 12 May 2011, 18:37

Rest_In_Pieces wrote:
Bighuey wrote:
Rest_In_Pieces wrote: Those are highy re-readable indeed. I'd go for something from my childhood. Jules Verne or something like that.
You sound like me. I read Verne's Journey to the Center Of the Earth and Off on a Comet when I was in high school and I would like to read them again. They are great re-reads.
Yeah, I've noticed we have quite some similarities, even though there is a huge age difference. Funny how that works.

Yeah, we do. I guess I never quite grew up.
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Maud Fitch · Post by **Maud Fitch** » 12 May 2011, 18:55

Whilst I love books with a passion and continually dip into them, I rarely re-read them. It's because I can never recapture that golden glow, the same mood or feeling, of the first reading. For me, the initial reading has a special aura, an all-absorbing closeness which subsequent re-reading diminishes and, to add to this, I already know the ending!

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 12 May 2011, 19:05

There are some books that I found by re-reading them I can get more out of them the second time, things I missed the first time. Charles Fort's books are like that, the first time around his books can be very confusing, but the second time what he says is easier to understand.

Envy · Post by **Envy** » 14 May 2011, 02:36

I don't ever re-read books (though I always either buy, or keep the books I end up loving. In this case, since I read books that aren't readily available in the library, I have to order them online). However, I had read Of Mice and Men twice - unfortunately - because of School. Once in Freshman year, and once in Junior year (actually, I kind of just skimmed it there since I had previous read it). I'm sorry but I really hate that book.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 14 May 2011, 09:11

Actually, Of Mice and Men was one case where I liked the movie better than the book. I saw the movie years ago, not the remake, but the original with Lon Chaney Jr. and I read the book after and i was disappointed with it. It didnt seem like there was that much to it.

Splinter · Post by **Splinter** » 18 May 2011, 08:17

Godfather, with no doubt

Avid Reader · Post by **Avid Reader** » 01 Oct 2011, 13:20

The Time Travellers Wife. amazing and has many parallels to my life (apart from the time travel bit). A masterpiece sadly not replicated in her later books.

Booklover83 · Post by **Booklover83** » 01 Oct 2011, 13:22

I am the same as many people in not re-reading many books. I do have one or two that escape me right now but I am one that reads it once, and if I do pick up a book again to read it I leave a long while between the first read and the next.

rjolion · Post by **rjolion** » 02 Oct 2011, 03:44

I can't say I'm a massive re-reader, but I used to keep a copy of the Lord of the Rings next to my bed and would often read a chapter or two when I was in between books. Most people aren't a huge fan of the birthday party at the beginning of the book, but I loved the scene of joviality and the carefree nature of the Hobbits lives. I must have read up to the point that Bilbo disappears at least 10 times.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 02 Oct 2011, 08:47

I first read LOTR in 1967, and I have read it 5 or 6 times since then. Its always a good re-read.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 02 Oct 2011, 13:16

I find myself rereading The Great Gatsby again and again. And I have a book of stories by the science fiction/fantasy writer C L Moore which never leaves my bedside locker .... if I can't sleep or the mood is down that's the book I reach for time and again. Black God's Kiss will never fail to send me to sleep following buckets of tears.

Ant · Post by **Ant** » 02 Oct 2011, 15:46

Up until recent years, the book I reread time and time again was entitled "How to programme your VHS". I still to this day can't understand that damn book.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 02 Oct 2011, 16:28

Ant wrote:Up until recent years, the book I reread time and time again was entitled "How to programme your VHS". I still to this day can't understand that damn book.

Did you get one of the manuals translated literally from Japanese or Chinese or Korean? They can be great fun to read ... not a lot of use but great for a laugh!

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 02 Oct 2011, 19:23

I bought a monster flat screen tv a couple years ago, I dont understand a tenth of it, the directions got me more confused. To this day all I can do on it is change channels, adjust the volume and thats about it.