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2Cecrow
>1 lorannen:, I've only read a total of 7 books this year, you may recall. At that meagre rate, how am I going to make/find the time to re-read any, I ask you.
Ah but if I could; a partial running list of what I'd like to try again:
Shadow and Claw
I Am the Cheese
Moby Dick
God Emperor of Dune
Majipoor Chronicles
The Brothers Karamazov
Huckleberry Finn
The Human Comedy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ficciones
We the Living
Howards End
Some I read too young, some I noted as I read them that I should return in future to see what different impression they make.
Ah but if I could; a partial running list of what I'd like to try again:
Shadow and Claw
I Am the Cheese
Moby Dick
God Emperor of Dune
Majipoor Chronicles
The Brothers Karamazov
Huckleberry Finn
The Human Comedy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ficciones
We the Living
Howards End
Some I read too young, some I noted as I read them that I should return in future to see what different impression they make.
3AnnieMod
I read Agatha Christie's novels and stories when I need to calm down (or when I just need to cleanse my palate) - between the language and the way the stories work, they are something I always enjoy.
The rest of my rereads really depend on my mood - Gaiman's Sandman, Asimov's Foundation (and the big series around it), Dicken's Christmas books, Austen's novels, some Bulgarian authors - the stories of Elin Pelin and Yovkov and Chudomir and pretty much anything by Talev and Bogomil Raynov), Pushkin's Onegin, Strugatsky's novels and stories, Lem's novels and stories, Gene Wolfe's New Sun Books, Clarke's City - it really depends on my mood an what I need.
Most of what I reread are books I discovered in my teens and early twenties - Sandman is probably the last one to get added to the list (and even that is from my twenties). Things get added and dropped to that list all the time.... Sometimes it is all about the language, sometimes it is all about the stories. And sometimes it is just because the book was the right book at the right time.
The rest of my rereads really depend on my mood - Gaiman's Sandman, Asimov's Foundation (and the big series around it), Dicken's Christmas books, Austen's novels, some Bulgarian authors - the stories of Elin Pelin and Yovkov and Chudomir and pretty much anything by Talev and Bogomil Raynov), Pushkin's Onegin, Strugatsky's novels and stories, Lem's novels and stories, Gene Wolfe's New Sun Books, Clarke's City - it really depends on my mood an what I need.
Most of what I reread are books I discovered in my teens and early twenties - Sandman is probably the last one to get added to the list (and even that is from my twenties). Things get added and dropped to that list all the time.... Sometimes it is all about the language, sometimes it is all about the stories. And sometimes it is just because the book was the right book at the right time.
4anglemark
I don't reread books. I'm too restless, I don't read fast enough. There are some notable exceptions:
The Long Ships
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Master and Commander and the other 19 Aubrey/Maturin books
The Long Ships
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Master and Commander and the other 19 Aubrey/Maturin books
5Jenson_AKA_DL
>4 anglemark: Master and Commander has been in my TBR pile for many years. I really should find it and give it a go!
My re-reads are usually ones that are just really fun for me. Recently I re-read The Mediator series by Meg Cabot which is a YA series that I continue to seek out every year or two. Also, the manga series Fake is a series I've re-read on more than one occasion. I will sometimes grab random books from the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward and the Dark Hunter books by Sherrilyn Kenyon when I'm craving romance novels, but it is never one in particular and never a complete series re-read (both series are ridiculously long at this point).
I have plans to re-read the Dresden books by Jim Butcher, but this will be a first re-read of those.
My re-reads are usually ones that are just really fun for me. Recently I re-read The Mediator series by Meg Cabot which is a YA series that I continue to seek out every year or two. Also, the manga series Fake is a series I've re-read on more than one occasion. I will sometimes grab random books from the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward and the Dark Hunter books by Sherrilyn Kenyon when I'm craving romance novels, but it is never one in particular and never a complete series re-read (both series are ridiculously long at this point).
I have plans to re-read the Dresden books by Jim Butcher, but this will be a first re-read of those.
7AndreasJ
I rarely re-read books; the most common exception would be reading circle works I've read previously, but those are mostly short stories rather than "proper" books.
The single work I've read the most times would be The Lord of The Rings or The Silmarillion, which I've read half a dozen times each or so, but it's a decade since last for either.
The single work I've read the most times would be The Lord of The Rings or The Silmarillion, which I've read half a dozen times each or so, but it's a decade since last for either.
