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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 18, 2018 16:34:21 GMT
Sometimes I do. In particular, I periodically reread classic Stephen King stuff. In fact I've been thinking of rereading Cujo next.
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Post by needysboy on Jul 20, 2018 20:28:29 GMT
I don't reread very many books.
Four that I have reread are 1) Dracula, 2) Varney the Vampire, 3) The Exorcist, which I found very creepy both times, and 4) Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase.
I'm sort of obsessed with Murakmi's book and will read it again someday. It's not a horror story, but it's an allegory of sorts. What it means is still a mystery to me.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Jul 20, 2018 22:47:11 GMT
The Recognitions, by William Gaddis: 3 times Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon: 6 times Pale Fire, by Vlad Nabokov: 5 times The Master & Margarita, by Mike Bulgakov: 3 times Petersburg, by Andrei Bely: 3 times
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Post by darknessfish on Jul 21, 2018 20:22:24 GMT
I don't reread very many books. Four that I have reread are 1) Dracula, 2) Varney the Vampire, 3) The Exorcist, which I found very creepy both times, and 4) Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase. I'm sort of obsessed with Murakmi's book and will read it again someday. It's not a horror story, but it's an allegory of sorts. What it means is still a mystery to me. I didn't care for A Wild Sheep Chase very much at all, personally. I've read a few of Murakami's books, and that to me seemed to be the one that epitomised his worst kind of formulaic moments. Particularly his characters' way of saying "we shall go there, and something shall happen" to 'magically' move a storyline on. It's like he discovered the structure he wanted his books to have with that one, but didn't have the depth of character, or didn't capture the right kind of tone. It's not that it's bad, it just seemed to highlight the flaws in his writing, and almost spoiled some of his other work for me. I also mean to re-read The Exorcist sometime. It's one of my favourite films, and I remember the book being superb on its own, and different enough to the film to be fairly disturbing in its own right, too.
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Post by ant-mac on Jul 22, 2018 0:37:11 GMT
Yes, all the time.
Last year, I reread all of the Ian Fleming 007 novels and short stories. Then I read the Kingsley Amis one and the two Christopher Wood novels. Currently, I'm working my way through all of the John Gardner 007s. I intersperse them with new novels to keep it fresh and interesting.
I also regularly reread SF novels and short stories by John Wyndham, Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight and so on and so forth. I also enjoy the some of the works of George Orwell and am a big fan of the Adam Hall espionage series, QUILLER.
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Post by ellynmacg on Jul 22, 2018 8:38:35 GMT
You've heard of "comfort food"? Well, I have many beloved books that I consider "comfort reads". While I try not to neglect new books (new to me, at least), I frequently feel a need to reconnect with old favorites, and I have quite a few of these on my Kindle. I've often found when I read an oldie-but-goodie electronically, it seems like a whole new experience.
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Post by ant-mac on Jul 22, 2018 8:54:38 GMT
You've heard of "comfort food"? Well, I have many beloved books that I consider "comfort reads". While I try not to neglect new books (new to me, at least), I frequently feel a need to reconnect with old favorites, and I have quite a few of these on my Kindle. I've often found when I read an oldie-but-goodie electronically, it seems like a whole new experience. I find it's like spending time with an old friend or friends.
Just with none of the hassles you get from real people.
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Post by ellynmacg on Jul 25, 2018 12:42:35 GMT
You've heard of "comfort food"? Well, I have many beloved books that I consider "comfort reads". While I try not to neglect new books (new to me, at least), I frequently feel a need to reconnect with old favorites, and I have quite a few of these on my Kindle. I've often found when I read an oldie-but-goodie electronically, it seems like a whole new experience. I find it's like spending time with an old friend or friends.
Just with none of the hassles you get from real people.
Yep. "Book-buddies" are hassle-free.
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Post by faustus5 on Jul 25, 2018 17:29:08 GMT
I will definitely re-read books I liked a lot, especially these days when I am trying to save money and have thousands in my library already. In fact, I'm about nine books into re-reading Patrick O'Brian's entire Aubrey?Maturin saga, which is about 21 or 22 books long.
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Post by needysboy on Jul 27, 2018 19:50:13 GMT
I don't reread very many books. Four that I have reread are 1) Dracula, 2) Varney the Vampire, 3) The Exorcist, which I found very creepy both times, and 4) Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase. I'm sort of obsessed with Murakmi's book and will read it again someday. It's not a horror story, but it's an allegory of sorts. What it means is still a mystery to me. I didn't care for A Wild Sheep Chase very much at all, personally. I've read a few of Murakami's books, and that to me seemed to be the one that epitomised his worst kind of formulaic moments. Particularly his characters' way of saying "we shall go there, and something shall happen" to 'magically' move a storyline on. It's like he discovered the structure he wanted his books to have with that one, but didn't have the depth of character, or didn't capture the right kind of tone. It's not that it's bad, it just seemed to highlight the flaws in his writing, and almost spoiled some of his other work for me. I also mean to re-read The Exorcist sometime. It's one of my favourite films, and I remember the book being superb on its own, and different enough to the film to be fairly disturbing in its own right, too.
Yes, I find The Exorcist (novel) very disturbing for some reason. I've also watched the film twice and still found the book very creepy when I read it again. I don't know how Blatty did it.
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Post by Raimo47 on Jul 27, 2018 20:21:08 GMT
Yes. I have read 'Salem's Lot over 20 times.
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Post by louise on Jul 29, 2018 21:43:54 GMT
yes. ABout half my reading is rereading. SOme of my favourite books I Have reread twenty times or more.
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Post by thornberry on Aug 11, 2018 1:03:16 GMT
I'm re-reading Huckleberry Finn right after passage of decades. It's amazing how much of it comes back to me, exact lines. Twain's writing is amazing, of course.
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Post by hi224 on Aug 12, 2018 14:47:41 GMT
yep.
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 24, 2018 7:24:16 GMT
yes, all the time
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 29, 2018 21:06:46 GMT
Normally, no. But I do re-read Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the Lord of the Rings.
Here is a feat for you. Of all the times I have read LOTR, twice was out loud. Right. Twice. Out loud. Every word. Once each to my two children as they became age appropriate. I also read "Watership Down" to them both at separate times.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Sept 2, 2018 1:02:06 GMT
The only novels I've reread of my own volition were the Harry Potter books. Read those a good few times. Other than that, all of my rereading was related to school and college assignments (I studied English Literature for 4 years back in the 2000s). When it comes to fiction, I'd much prefer to read something new.
RE history books I might find myself rereading sections, but doubt I'd ever reread an entire book of this nature.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 1:51:41 GMT
Very rarely. Can't remember the last time I did that - probably "Dune" decades ago. I reread Dune as well. I took an elective English class in high school in which we read science fiction and that was one of the books. I thought I would enjoy it but I never enjoyed anything I had to read in school. Many years later, in my late thirties I read Dune again and thoroughly enjoyed it. So I tried rereading Lord of the Flies as well but it was just as boring as it was the first time.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 20, 2018 9:23:19 GMT
Comics I do often. I've reread Watchnen about 4 times.
Novels not too often. I've reread Of Mice and Men a couple times. Wouldn't mind rereading Great Gatsby and Animal Farm. All cases of being fairly short.
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Post by hanswilm on Sept 20, 2018 15:21:45 GMT
I haven't yet. There are a few I'd like to reread but I never have yet.
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