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Are you a re-reader?

Oh, how I want to re-read! But my mountain of unread books makes it an almost impossible dream...

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer was my favorite to visit on a regular basis. It'll probably be what I first pick up when I start indulging in revisiting old favorites.
 
Absolutely I re-read! Some books are my friends they have gotten me though hard times. I read for escape usually. So I want to go back to that escape portal again and visit those friends. It may be a year or two but I get this craving to re-read maybe Harry Potter, Nora Robert's Three Sister Island Trilogy, Laurie R. King's Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series are just some I will re-read. It's a warm and cozy feeling I get.
 
I re-read occasionally. Every couple of years I re-read the Lord of the Rings books. I went through a phase where I had an urge to re-read some of the books that made an impact on me when I was younger. I spent a good deal of time tracking em down and enjoyed going through them again even if they didn't really hold up as well as I remembered them.
 
I re-read classic pieces such as Poe, Shakespeare and Homer, but there has to be at least a 5-year interval between readings. My memory is too good for me to enjoy re-reading a piece when I can pick it up and, after reading the first few sentences, remember all of the details of the plot and characters.
 
I used to re-read prolifically as a child; the older I got, however, the less I did it.

I've noticed this trait (re-reading) with my children too, they can re-read a book over and over before they are bored with it.

Part of the reason I got into reading gamebooks as a tween and then a teen was that one of the primary traits of those books was that they were designed to be re-read (and come up with different endings).

Jasan
 
cmbroom said:
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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hey, the count of monte cristo is a great book. I'd reread it if i wasn't trying to read 300 other books by the same author.

And yes, I do reread - I reread a few favorite books I have that I keep on my shelf. They're not very worn like other books(i love a worn book, it means it' s loved) because I bought them after getting them from the library, but I reread them when I'm sad or depressed or just have problems and need to relax. They're my stress relief.
 
I don't re-read because there are so many new books to read. And I'm a pretty slow reader so I would feel like I'm wasting my time reading books I've already read, no matter how much I liked them. Though I have thought I could read some book again while I'm reading a new book.
 
dominicgaj said:
I've noticed this trait (re-reading) with my children too, they can re-read a book over and over before they are bored with it.
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Look out for children! Before they learn to read for themselves, they want the same stories read to them over and over and over again. Grandchildren are just as bad. I spent a summer week on Cape Cod with a 3-year-old, reading Are You My Mother?. I got her down to three times a day, once after each meal. Great book, by the way.
 
Hi fellas! My first post outside the Introductions forum.

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I sometimes re-read, but only after several years, if memories of the book are still with me; in another words, if the book rocked my world.

I've read some of Sven Hassel's work twice, am planning to restart from the first Patrick O'Brian novel while waiting for more of his work getting translated to Finnish, and possibly re-read Guy Sajer's Forgotten Soldier, also a great book.
 
Like many others here I reread some books. I find humourous books and novels that are not plot-driven worth rereading.

I have read Candide by Voltaire 3 times possibly 4. Other books I have read more than once include Animal Farm, 1984, The Life of Pi, Gridlock by Ben Elton and all of Oscar Wilde's plays.
 
There are a limited number of books that I have read a number of times – and know that I will read again in the future: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is another. But I do tend to find that the books that I do re-read are rather more complex ones, which do tend to reward re-reading.
 
Frozeninside said:
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.
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i agree strongly
i've read some books as many as ten times,though 2,3,4 are more realistic numbers

i started a thread in 'authors' listing many

sometimes i pick up books at the library and don't realize until many pages in i've read it already
 
I've never re-read a book before. I attempted to once, but got so bored. Reading a novel once is enough for me. Although, few books have made me think about it.
 
i re-read some books, books that for some reason comfort me when i am depressed or stresses out (nothing serious, just too much HW). the books i re-read are not necessarily my fav, but i still like them a lot. for some reason, A Series of Unfortuante Events was very comforting, though obviously, it was meant to be quite the opposite (says Lemony Snicket).
 
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