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Are you a re-reader?

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bethanyr32

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I love books. I like to buy books and reread them. I tend to notice more details the second time through, and I love looking for little hints the authors dropped about what's coming. I sometimes feel a sense of pride in the fact that most of my books show at least a little wear and tear around the edges and down the spines. My books are well-known, well-loved friends. But I know plenty of people who figure once through is enough. What's your take?
 
I occasionally re-read favorites (Spring Moon iby Betty Bau Lord is one, Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier is another). When I was a child, some of my books were tattered from re-reading (Little Women). There are so many books I have read in the past year or so, which I have since passed them along to other readers, that I wish I could go through again to pull out specific quotes or just think about sections in a bit more detail. I have so many on Mt TBR right now that I just can't (don't) indulge much in re-reading.
 
If I like it, I eventually re-read it. I have trouble remembering things, so it's good to do that, for me. I tend to re-read it about six months later.
 
Sometimes. There are probably 4-5 books I've re-read so far. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four holds the record with 2 re-reads.
 
I like to re-read some books - especially after a few years. I find they resonate differently at different times in my life. You sometimes pick up on things that you previously missed.
 
I view re-reading the same ways as I would watching a favorite movie multiple times or a favorite tv show over and over again. If it is something you have enjoyed why not read it again.
 
I'm a re-reader. I like picking up the extra details the second time around. Sometimes, it's also just nice to revisit something familiar that I know I'll enjoy. :)
 
I do re-read some books, but there are so many books out there that I haven't read, that I try not to do it unless I LOVE the book.

I think some books also lend themselves to re-reading. Those that are complex, and finely detailed. Others are so simple, and plot driven, that I don't ever feel the need to re-read.

Books I've re-read are: The Historian by Kostova, Little Women, Paradise by Morrison, and Wurthering Heights. This of course doesn't include any books that I had to read ad nauseum for my courses (Beowulf anyone?).

Ones I loved but would never bother to re-read because they were plot driven: Davinci Code, The Last Templar, and Harry Potter.
 
There are some books that I would love to re-read, but there are so many books out there that I haven't even opened. So I don't find time to re-read!
 
I love to re-read books. The instant I finish a really great book I start missing the characters. In the case of a few books I just can't resist joining them again. I have read Stephen King's Dark Tower series six or seven times, I lost count. I have re-read the Harry Potter books about four times. It is fun to notice things you didn't think were important the first time through. Sometimes I re-read books because they have very important and socially relevant things to say like 1984 and Farenheit 451, I can't absorb everything the first time through so I read them again.
 
I have re-read Harry Potter countless times. I re-read quite a bit.

Some books I can finish and start at the beginning again. I'm crazy, I know.
 
I used to re-read when I was younger, but usually it doesn't work for me anymore. There are some books that I will go back to if I'm feeling out of sorts, but usually I don't re-read.

My husband is a HUGE re-reader. Drives me crazy actually, he's probably read each Tom Clancy about a million times, I don't want to even count the number of times he's read Count of Monte Cristo.
 
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