Do You Ever Read A Book More Than Once ??

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Do You Ever Read A Book More Than Once ??

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Do You Ever Read fiction Books More Than Once ??
 

Sometimes I've read either fiction or nonfiction books more than once. With nonfiction, sometimes I re-read the whole book, or sometimes only parts. With fiction, if I re-read it's usually the whole book.

Fiction short-story ones that immediately come to mind are Ry Cooder's Los Angeles Stories and Mark Twain's excursion-adventure for young readers Huckleberry Finn, but many others too. A few nonfiction ones that come to mind are Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and Gerald Durrell's Fillets of Plaice (both memoirs), Nicholas Martin's Aldous Huxley (biography), and Sheldrake's A New Science of Life (science theory).
 
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Pepper said:
Not recently, but when young I did. Many books, but only one coming to my fevered mind right now is Gone With The Wind. Read all my Nancy Drews a thousand times.
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I have a collection of Nancy Drew books that I read over and over!
chic said:
Absolutely. I do it frequently. I would rather reread an excellent book than be bored to death with a new one.
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I agree!
 

I’m paging thru a Bieber book as I type. Pictures a lot.
The wife does download books over and over. Hell on
Wheels, Highlander just of a couple. Talk about it, she
read it on downloads Books.
 
I've read James Michener's Hawaii twice, and Alaska three times. Good books like good movies can be revisited. But my record of rereads is Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which I have read too many times to possibly count. It's the only book that once when I finished the last page, I flipped back to the first page to begin reading again. After that I would pick it up from time to time and reread it. His style of writing flows so easily for me. It's like he's talking to me. In addition, that book has so much factual information written in such a light style, that I couldn't digest all of it in one read. I've read it maybe 10 times.

But this is weird, I bought copies of that book twice to send to friends, who never read it, or started, and put it down unfinished.
 
Muskrat said:
Yes. Some were just particular favorites…some because I wanted to imprint them on my brain. I read everything….but tend more to non-fiction these days. Books like “The big short” help me understand the world I live on the periphery of better.
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Ahh, I forgot the Big Short, one of my rereads.
 
I've always been an avid reader and there are a number of books I've read twice. I guess "The Godfather" tops the list, probably been read 3-5 times. Next comes all the Ian Fleming James Bond books, and I have read each 3 times. There are others, but I can't recall them right now.
 
I’m reading a book now that I’ve read a couple of times before. It’s called “You Can Be Happy No Matter What.?”

Five principles your therapist never told you.
 
Alizerine said:
I read that years ago. It would probably seem all brand new if I reread it. At the time someone compared me to Clea. I wonder if that was a compliment.
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"Clea", the last novel of the "Alexandria Quartet". She is a bisexual artist, a paintress, who loses one hand because of an accident with a harpoon.

In the end she falls in love with Darley, the poor teacher and narrator who had an affair with Justine in the first book and cared for Melissa.

I don't know if the comparison with Clea was a compliment under such circumstances.
 

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