What books to do you re-read?

[Haven]

Date: 1/4/2010 12:17:16 PM
Author: monarch64
Haven, I can understand why you would tire of TKAM, I think teaching it would be different than reading it for pleasure now and then. One of my aunts gave me a copy when I was 12, and it was her favorite book. She and I get along famously but don''t see each other often and re-reading TKAM is one way for me to stay close to her in my mind. Also, every time I read it after having seen the movie I picture Atticus as Gregory Peck and that is sort of pleasurable for me.

Awww, that''s really sweet.
And yes, Gregory Peck:

I didn''t mean to offend you by my comment about TKAM. After reading the "Books you dislike" thread I wanted to pop back in here to make sure you didn''t get offended by my response to your post. I''m glad you didn''t take it the wrong way, thank you for that!

 

[upgrade]

I''ve read the Harry Potter series many, many times. I love it! I like to re-read a lot of books, but my faves would have to be ''Where the Heart Is'' and HP. I will also confess to having read the Twilight series... twice.

I like to read a lot of thriller/suspense books and I love to read them again once I know how it will all play out to see what I missed the first time.

 

[ts44]

Date: 1/4/2010 9:59:49 AM
Author: noelwr
I also don''t like to re-read, but here are 2 few favorites that I have:

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS by Wilson Rawls
THE CHOCOLATE WAR by Robert Cormier

I love young adult books.

Me too! A long-time favorite has been My Side of the Mountain - I read it and reread it a thousand times and it still to this day sparks fantasies of leaving this behind and moving into a hemlock tree in the mountains. Only one problem - no pricescope! Can a hemlock tree get wifi?

 

[dragonfly411]

I re read Watership Down once a year

Lord of the Rings

Sword of Truth Series

Harry Potter

Wuthering Heights over and over and over and over...

 

[elrohwen]

Date: 1/4/2010 2:04:08 PM
Author: dragonfly411
I re read Watership Down once a year

I re-read that last year because I got a bunny of my own and felt the need to read about wild buns

I told DH that he should read it and he said "But I hate bunnies"

Clearly he''s lying

 

[princesss]

Ummm....all of them?

Seriously, it''s rare for me to not re-read a book. I find I can appreciate the art in the writing when I''m not so plot-focused, and that''s the really enjoyable part for me.

 

[starshine]

Well since I admitted it on the Guilty Pleasures thread...the Twilight saga (have read through at least 3 times!) I read aloud to my children all the time and have enjoyed going through my childhood favorites with them. The Little House Books have been much loved in our household and have been read aloud by me twice, and now again by my independent reader. We''ve also enjoyed Anne of Green Gables and The Chronicles of Narnia. One of my husband''s childhood favorites is My Side of the Mountain...he has read that to our children twice and has recently completed The Other Side of the Mountain and is now on Frightful''s Mountain. It''s been such a wonderful experience sharing our favorite childhood literature with our kids.

A new favorite is The Tale of Despereaux...we''ve been through that one twice as well!

 

[zoebartlett]

It''s funny, I love to read but I don''t like to read something twice. I think I''ve accidentally done it on occasion though. I don''t mind watching movies or TV reruns more than once though.

 

[somethingshiny]

Any book that I like, I read at least twice. I read very quickly and miss things the first time around if I''m completely engrossed in a book. For example, Harry Potter, I read all 3 (at the time) books and then began REreading them before I realized that the word was "PREFECT" not "PERFECT."

The books that I continue to reread are more fantasy, classics, etc. I don''t usually reread a Stephen King for example.

 

[TravelingGal]

I don''t reread, although I don''t know why not. The only two books that I can recall rereading are All Quiet on the Western Front and Pride and Prejudice. I''ll probably read P&P again...love that book.

 

[icekid]

I love to read, but don''t re-read often. Harry Potter many times. Jane Austen. Another Great Gatsby fan here

 

[ts44]

Date: 1/4/2010 6:08:17 PM
Author: TravelingGal
I don''t reread, although I don''t know why not. The only two books that I can recall rereading are All Quiet on the Western Front and Pride and Prejudice. I''ll probably read P&P again...love that book.

I read P&P at least twice a month...I think I might have a problem.

 

[lulu]

"To Kill a Mockingbird" every summer and "A Christmas Carol" every winter.

 

[ksinger]

LOTR - my "comfort" books for when I''m home sick. Also, the Outlander series. Jane Eyre. Probably other ones...

 

[miraclesrule]

The Mists of Avalon. At least once every other year.

 

[Iowa Lizzy]

Ooh, I forgot about Freakonomics. I read it a few years ago and then reread it aloud to FI during car rides this summer. My dream job would be to read books on tape.

 

[miraclesrule]

Ooooh, I just read Freakonomics last weekend. Loved it. I want to read the sequel.

 

[elrohwen]

Date: 1/4/2010 7:47:17 PM
Author: ts44
I read P&P at least twice a month...I think I might have a problem.

Lol, that's a little extreme! I've also read it a bunch of times, but I like listening to it as a book on tape during long car rides too. In general I don't like books on tape, but I make an exception for P&P. Though DH never wants to listen to it

despite the fact that he loves the 5 hour BBC movie

 

[gardengloves]

Date: 1/4/2010 8:33:46 PM
Author: miraclesrule
The Mists of Avalon. At least once every other year.

YES!

 

[Sabine]

Date: 1/4/2010 11:52:26 AM
Author: Haven
I love reading about everyone''s favorite repeat reads.


I must say, Monnie, that I am SHOCKED that you reread TKAM. That book is why I stopped teaching freshman English when I was a high school teacher.

I couldn''t bear to read it anymore!

REALLY??? I somehow never read this book UNTIL I taught freshman english, but I immediately loved it and loved teaching it all 7 times that I did!

I also reread books if they are being made into a movie that I want to see and I haven''t read it in a while (do this with all the Harry Potters).

And I was going to put Where the Red Fern Grows on here as well...that was my first "favorite" book when I was little, and I reread it during my school''s free-reading time recently and still love it!

I also totally just got out a pen and paper to write down books that you all are talking about that I''ve never heard of!

 

[Iowa Lizzy]

Date: 1/4/2010 9:03:55 PM
Author: miraclesrule
Ooooh, I just read Freakonomics last weekend. Loved it. I want to read the sequel.

I have a sample of the sequel on my Kindle. I loved the chapter from the first one about baby names. Really interesting stuff!

 

[cellososweet]

Fear and Trembling-Kierkegaard
The Fall-Camus
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying- Rinpoche

Every year I read these three books

 

[OUpearlgirl]

I go back and re-read books that I was required to read in middle school. I usually appreciate them more now that I am older and have more life experience.

I can re-read Little Women and Gone With the Wind a million times and never tire of them, though.

 

[packrat]

Piers Anthony''s Adept series. Alan Dean Foster has several I''ve reread.

 

[Haven]

Date: 1/4/2010 9:23:15 PM
Author: Sabine

Date: 1/4/2010 11:52:26 AM
Author: Haven
I love reading about everyone''s favorite repeat reads.

I must say, Monnie, that I am SHOCKED that you reread TKAM. That book is why I stopped teaching freshman English when I was a high school teacher.

I couldn''t bear to read it anymore!

REALLY??? I somehow never read this book UNTIL I taught freshman english, but I immediately loved it and loved teaching it all 7 times that I did!

Yes. I think it is one of the most overrated books. It''s just very poorly written, in my opinion.
I read it in school in the fifth grade, and again in the ninth grade. And then over and over again as a teacher.

 

[LGK]

I'm a huge re-reader. And reader in general.

The Handmaid's Tale (and really a good number of Margaret Atwood's books, like the Robber Bride)

I love rereading Stephen King when I need a good fun-but-not-challenging book. The Stand being my favorite- ah, apocalypse, it's so relaxing!

Poppy Z. Brite's early novels- Lost Souls, Wormwood, and Drawing Blood. Amazing and it breaks my heart she decided to never write in the horror genre ever again- I just can't get into her newer novels at all.

I can reread over and over anything at all by Caitlin R. Kiernan- my very favorites of hers, though, are her short story compilations, To Charles Fort with Love, Wrong Things, From Weird and Distant Shores and Tales of Pain & Wonder. Her prose is just lovely and worth rereading over and over, and her short stories are always a good reread especially.

I barely made it through the Twilight series and definitely won't be rereading it- just too poorly written and the heroine just drove me batty.

The Lovely Bones was one I reread.

Miraclesrule, I just finally reread the Mists of Avalon for the first time since I was, like, 13- I read it about 3 times as a kid, and it was great to revisit 20 years later and see it was just as amazing as I remembered. I liked MZB's sci-fi too; the Darkover series was one I reread a ton as a teenager. I especially loved Hawkmistress- but, again, haven't reread as an adult & might be fun to revisit.

I'm sure there's tons of others.

 

[packrat]

LGK-The Stand is one of my favorites of his too!

 

[VRBeauty]

Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca

I tend to gobble books up fairly quickly, but after I "finish," I go back and re-read my favorite parts... sometimes more than once!

 

[AdiS]

I re-read all the books I really like, but most often:

Gone With the Wind

Twilight series (just the first 3 books)

The Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist

The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone

Three Comrades and Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque

And... *gasp*... Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase.

I know, I''m not sure how did that happen! lol

I also have this little book of poetry by a Bulgarian author, Damian Damianov, which is a gift by my DH. I think I''ll know it all by heart very soon.

 

[ts44]

Date: 1/4/2010 9:10:49 PM
Author: elrohwen

Date: 1/4/2010 7:47:17 PM
Author: ts44
I read P&P at least twice a month...I think I might have a problem.

Lol, that''s a little extreme! I''ve also read it a bunch of times, but I like listening to it as a book on tape during long car rides too. In general I don''t like books on tape, but I make an exception for P&P. Though DH never wants to listen to it

despite the fact that he loves the 5 hour BBC movie

My fiance gave me the dvd of the 5-hour miniseries for Christmas! Is it better to sit down and watch it through or should I break it up into installments?

Who am I kidding, I''m totally going to watch it through, lol.

I re-read Tick-Tock by Dean Koontz last night - it''s a weird, goofy, fluff piece of literature but I love the dog character in it.