Re-reading books

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Oh yeah, I totally hate that! When I was younger, I was into the Mary Kate and Ashley mystery series and collected the books. I really enjoyed reading them, but in every single book, they would introduce the characters! And it's so annoying! I know that the author expects someone with no previous knowledge of any of the other books to be able to pick up any book in the series and follow it, because the chronological order is not important due to different storylines. But it is irritating.

I hate to admit this, but as an adult I still own and re-read books from my childhood... particularly Eric Carle, Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss... As a child I would insist that on reading "Goodnight Moon" EVERY night, sometimes two or three times, or else I would throw a fit.

This is in addition to "grown-up" fiction, non-fiction, and my school textbooks, of course! Fiction I can only really read once. Non-fiction and textbooks I can read two or three times but not consecutively. But lately I have been having to re-read individual pages to absorb the information. Books are one of my biggest obsessions in general, so I guess it makes sense that I read in strange obsessive ways.

Great books aren't read.... they're REREAD


I read "cave boy" over and over in grade school.


These days I reread chuck palahniuk.

I'm in the process of rereading the Harry Potter series and rewatching the films for the third (fourth for some of the books) time.

I tried reading Harry Potter... Didn't make it more than three chapters in.

I usually read books once. Almost never re-read them because my brain is a sponge for these kind of information. The only book I have re-read (to my knowledge) is The Silmarillion. I don't like to re-read anything, unless I haven't read about something in a long while (usually wikipedia articles). It goes the same (usually) for pictures or videos of any kind.

I am not crazy about any kind of fiction story unless it has lots of historical facts or anything similar built in to the story. Granted, Tolkien's Middle Earth is different but it's a masterpiece.

You re-read the Silmarillion? My hats of too ya, I barely made it through all the way the first time. Tolkein was... different thinking no doubt about it, and the had of his son is there as well, as far as a work of fiction it doesn't flow well because it was never meant as a single story.

Yeah, it reads more like a history book. But if you like history books... or if you like the world as a whole... you will definitely re-read the Silmarillion. It's on my re-read list, anyway.

When I read a book, I'm much more likely to fall in love with the world it's set in, and re-read it repeatedly, if that world is interesting, coherent, with a good set of rules--like a real "universe", rather than just characters floating around in generic locations.

I think the first world that did that for me was the "Chronicles of Narnia" series. You really get a sense that they take place in a larger multiverse, and we're only getting a glimpse of it. In a very real way, the world itself is the main character, and the human (or animal) characters are tour guides.

I'll re-read certain books that I really have a vested interest in, but only "story" type books. I read a lot of Physics and Biology texts, and I have a hard time re-reading any of those because the knowledge they were trying to impart is already stuck in my mind. For example, I read Daniel Dennett's "Kinds of Minds" once, and have no interest in ever re-reading it, because the point he was trying to get across and all the data is useless now that its in my head, but I can go back and read his book "Breaking the Spell" multiple times, because it is full of subjectivity and its not a hard source of data.

On the other hand, I've re-read George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series again for each of the book releases (and I'll continue to do so), I re-read "The Wheel of Time" lately, both to mourn Jordan's' death and Sanderson's' attempt at completing the series finally, and I'm working my way for the third time through Erikson's "Malazan" series. Individual novels are much harder for me to do this with, though I'll admit that I've gone through Ender's Game (even if Card is a hack, this book is a masterpiece) more times throughout my youth and into my adult life than I can count, and many of the novels by China Mievelle are headed down the same path.

To me, books are like movies. As I re-watch movies I like several times, I'll read a book again if I don't have anything else to read (I read a LOT.) In most good books there are parts that I fall in love with, but I can never remember the entire thing word-for-word, thus I want to read the book again! I would probably stop reading a book if I could remember all the words, and movies are about the same.

I re-read a book from time to time.
Usually I pick up one of my favourite books I haven´t read in a while and I know I´ll enjoy re-reading it.

I usually do the first reading of a book quite quickly without realizing some details so I allways have the pleasurer of seeing something new everytime I re-read a book.

I reread ones I really like, as do NTs.

If I really enjoy the book, then yes.

I only reread audiobooks, since they don't require their own time.

I reread Jurasic Park about 15 times as a kid. I only reread few good novels here and there.

I've re-read many of my books 3 to 4 times, and all this talk about reading, is reminding me, that I have a book to get finished, because I've ordered a book from a kiosk at Chapters, that should be coming, any day.