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Originally Posted by hellsapoppin
I've read most of Poe's work more than 2x (I wuv my "The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe".. sits by my bed on the floor right now!!) But my most read are "Morella" and the "Oval Portrait"
Also Christine, Needful Things, the Shining, Misery--- Stephen King
And the Chamber, the Brethren--- John Grisham
The Cardinal of the Kremlin--- Tom Clancy
I'm currently on Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. I read it previously in October 2003.
I've read Jane Eyre a few times. It's my fave! Why would anyone read such perfection only once?
It's rare I'll re-read books unless a decent amount of time has passed but I read American Psycho twice in about 18 months (surprise surprise given my screen name:thumbsup:)
I recently read The Stranger (Albert Camus) I can tell you for sure that will be read again very soon
If I really want to understand a poem, I will read it 2-3 times a day. At one point I was reading T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets 3-4 times a day on average, which totals well over a couple hundred times. The only way to really understand a poem is to reread it nonstop, assuming there is something in there. You also need to read the anthology or book it is in several times to really get at it.
Among some of those that I've read more than once are: The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Of Mice and Men, Pride and Prejudice, The Cherry Orchard, Treasure Island, Lord of the Flies, and many more.
For the most part the reason is that I read them in school as assignments, so read them for purpose. I re-read them later (much later) as a reader.
I even read Moby Dick more than once to figure out why people talked so much about the book, it still escapes me, but I do not intend to read it again.
My latest rereads are The Colour by Rose Tremain and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
A quote that I have found --
"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. Francois Mauriac
I re-read quite often :D
Brave New World
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing (not by choice)
Othello
Most of the Harry Potters - though not the last couple
Some of T.S Eliot's poems - (mostly Prufrock & Waste Land)
Pride & Prejudice (and other Austens)
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
To Kill A Mockingbird
Far From the Madding Crowd
Cloudstreet
The Riders
Think I'll stop before the list gets too long :p
I always struggle with whether or not to re-read a book. I know I have a fairly limited understanding of many of my favorite books due to only reading them once, but I have so many hundreds of books I want to read that it makes it tough to spend my time reading ones I've already read. I read a ton of non-fiction books as well so I'm pretty overloaded.
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Wuthering Heights - just now; first time was many, many years ago.
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Currently reading: La Steppe Rouge by Joseph Kessel
All the novels of Dostoyevsky, Hugo, Gaddis, Tolstoy, half of Cormac McCarthy's (so far), The Lord of the Rings (as a teen) multiple times, Mieville's Perdido Street Station, and many other single works by various authors.
Why? The Lord of the Rings because I was an obsessed teen, most of the others because they are too good to read just once, the Gaddis, especially The Recognitions, because they can't be absorbed and appreciated with a single reading.
Read Cormacs The Road twice and plan on many more, Great Gatsby 3+
Some Tolkien works, The little prince, a large part of Crime and Punishment. I remember these.
I don't necessarily re-read books entirely but two books that I always return to like certain passages are Hamlet and Lollita
Oh and iv re read Jude the Obscure because I wanted to work on it in my final year of Uni as well as having wrote on it in first year. The other two I mentioned (Hamlet and Lolita) I return to because I love them and there's always more to appreciate