Re-reading?

What book(s) have you read more than once? Why? :)

The only books I have read twice so far are the 5th and 6th of the Harry Potter series. I can read any of those books over and over again.

I hope to re-read a few books that have been assigned to me in school; simply because when they are assigned you don't enjoy them as much, and perhaps skim through it. I want to re-read Catcher in the Rye, Moby Dick, and Frankenstein.

I've re-read Beowolf, The Giver, Everyman, and King Lear for a class, and I've re-read Jane Eyre for pleasure. There are a lot of books I want to re-read, but there are also so many books that I haven't read yet and would like to spend the time reading.

I have read all the Harry Potter books twice. The third one I read about three times.

There was a book in my childhood called Phoenix Rising that I read probably about four times.

Just like you, I hope as well to re read some of those school assigned books like Frankenstein and The Great Gatsby. To Kill a Mockingbird didn't catch me at all, so I might read that one again too.

I have read Hamlet just about five times now.

But of course, I plan on reading all of my books again, it is just getting through them the first time that is a little hard.

By the way, welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum, Lycosparks! :wave:

I used to re-read my favourite books a lot earlier, but now I generally tend to re-read sections I like, since there are so many books on my to-read list. :)
But I keep going back to the books I like time and again. Those generally tend to be ones where I particularly like the writing style, the lyricism of the language, or where I want to re-read some particularly memorable scene. I recently read The Great Gatsby again... one of my favourites. I keep re-visiting Shakespeare. Also, I hope to re-read Faulkner's The Sound & The Fury and Joyce's Ulysses, to understand them better. ;)
Hope I didn't prattle on too much! :p

Hmmm, I have read all Harry Potter books six or seven times. Other books which I re-read were Mill on the Floss and The Hobbit.

Now, I might re-read East of Eden...

I'm extremely predictable - always re-reading my favourite Evelyn Waugh novels...apart from that, I'll sometimes comfort read (eg: Bridget Jones's Diary AGAIN), or go back to P.G Wodehouse. I never get tired of P.G Wodehouse.

I'm probably the only person on earth who's never re-read a Harry Potter book. :)

If I can remember some of the books I have re-read, some list as Shakespeare's complete plays and sonnets (multiple times), The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger (just because I loved it), The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (twice - once in modernized English, the other in original Old English), Tess Of The D'Urberville by Thomas Hardy (which I plan on reading again shortly, probably having read it at an age that I did not understand it completely), Dubliners by James Joyce (because James Joyce almost always requires more than one read), Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (having some difficulty understanding it), Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton (for comprehension), The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (also for comprehension, but also in two different translations), The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, The Æneid by Virgil, and various works by Plato, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Paul Sartre, Cicero, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, and David Hume.
With poetry, the list extends much further, that seeming my greatest passion in literature; almost always I carry around at least one book of poetry, along with whatever I presently read.

Thanks for the welcome! :)

I agree about not being able to re-read as much as I'd like, simply because there is so much to read for a first time!

I am taking a course next term on Chaucer... I'm getting nervous about it; I'm not the best at comprehending old English...

And I agree about poetry! That's my passion as well--reading and writing.

hey there lycosparks!

i usually re-read my books after the first time i read them, a day or so after. i prefer re-reading it because i get to see things for the second time, get a clearer point of view on the whole thing.

I've read three books twice, What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.

I have read Dante's Inferno numerous times, I can't even count anymore!

I had a time in high school where I realized that I had read a lot of somewhat grown-up books as a kid that would have more meaning if I re-read them as a young adult...so I re-read The Old Man and the Sea, Animal Farm, 1984, Brave new World, and all of the Chronicles of Narnia. If I ever get the time, I want to re-read a book called "Black Like Me," because I also read it at a rather young age and remember being very affected by it...and I want to refresh the story in my head. (A white man dyes his skin black to see if he is treated differently.) Also, i once read a "Diary of a Slave Girl," but when I search on Amazon and Google for it, a totally different book comes up from the one that I read...so I'll have to search a little deeper for it. If I do find it, I do want to re-read that as well.

I can read Edgar Allan Poe's works over and over for the rest of my life and be content :)

I reread quite often, sometimes just because I loved the book so much and can't get enough of it, sometimes because it's been so long since the first time that I've completely forgotten the plot and yet other times because I didn't like it the first time and enough time has elapsed that I think I might see it in a different light. The books I've reread most often are Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, all by Tolkien, Forsyte Saga by Galsworthy, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams and many books from the Discworld series. I'm about to reread The Brothers K by David James Duncan which I'm actually a little apprehensive about, I loved the book, absolutely loved it but the first half was excrutiatingly slow and I'm not looking forward to reading that part again. Maybe it will be easier this time knowing that the second half more than makes up for it. ;)

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Originally Posted by Bysshe

I'm probably the only person on earth who's never re-read a Harry Potter book.

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You're doing better than me, I've never even read one for the first time.

Honestly, I have reread so many books over the years that I don't want to bore you. The highlights:
Posession - Byatt
The Blind Assassin - Atwood
Shakespeare (take your pick)
Tess of the D'urbervilles - Hardy
Corrine,or Italy - de Stael
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Howards End - Forester (great to read in conjunction with On Beauty by Zadie Smith)
John Donne's poetry
Invisible Man - Ellison

Hello and welcome to lycosparks and alshadai :banana:

Lord of the Rings 2x
The Last Battle (TCON) 2x
Peter Pan 3x
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (TCON) 3x
So Much to Live For 4x
Ella Enchanted 5x

Ella Enchanted was such a cool book....the movie is a mess though.

Something about Peter Pan is extremely delghtful to me...I love it everything about it.