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OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
16. So far, never
Fri May 5, 2017, 10:56 AM
May 2017

I don't usually watch movies a second time either but there are a few like Rocky Horror and Star Wars.

And I will watch a movie after I've read the book but I never read a book after I've watched the movie.

I have often started a book and got a few pages in and realized I've read it before and so I stop. I wish I could re-read books because I like the memories but I just can't stay interested in a repeat.

Even my most favorite books are victims of my apathy the second time around. I deliberately started A Tale of Two Cities again because it had been close to 40 years since I first read it and I figured surely it would be as new but I didn't get much farther than finding out what kinds of times it was.

I'm not going to give up though - I'm hoping that since I'm getting older and farther removed from books I read in my youth (I read way above my grade level from about 4th grade on especially when I got into high school. TV and music were tightly controlled but weirdo religious mom and step-dick didn't pay much attention to what I brought home from the library) I can maybe revisit them with a lifetime of experience to add to my understanding. I expect some I loved will not hold up and some I didn't love might have new revelations. But most should be just as good as they were in days of old but maybe I'll have new perspectives on them.

... 2naSalit May 2017 #1
Yes, there are many I've revisited PJMcK May 2017 #2
I love Michener's books. Dulcinea May 2017 #44
This message was self-deleted by its author Crash2Parties May 2017 #223
The Poldark series. spooky3 May 2017 #3
+1 treestar May 2017 #112
Especially if you read them in BlueMTexpat May 2017 #173
Of Human Bondage. W. Somerset Maugham's trc May 2017 #4
When I first read "Of Human Bondage" I was really into it womanofthehills May 2017 #97
Beat me to it, and I might add Brainstormy May 2017 #170
All of the books I have read are real. OilemFirchen May 2017 #5
On the other hand, there is a fictional book I've written several times jberryhill May 2017 #11
Yeah, me too. OilemFirchen May 2017 #17
"Time and Again" ... NanceGreggs May 2017 #6
"Time And Again" PJMcK May 2017 #56
Yes!!! NanceGreggs May 2017 #70
Yes! Fabulous book. SeattleVet May 2017 #86
I never got past ... NanceGreggs May 2017 #90
IIRC, it did pick up a bit... SeattleVet May 2017 #92
OMG!! "Time and Again!!" Let me explain: DFW May 2017 #136
WOW!!! NanceGreggs May 2017 #166
Time and Again... Mike Nelson May 2017 #226
Earth Abides. A Canticle for Leibowitz. The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings. Handmaids Tale. ... Binkie The Clown May 2017 #7
Love "Earth Abides" and "Canticle." nt tblue37 May 2017 #55
Yes! Horatio Hornblower, and the Bolitho series. PatrickforO May 2017 #154
Earth Abides holds up after nearly 70 years spiderpig May 2017 #168
Junky by William S. Burroughs. Jno_Gilmor_ May 2017 #8
Michener got me started. madamesilverspurs May 2017 #9
If you like Wouk, don't forget "The Caine Mutiny" Grins May 2017 #128
The Source is BlueMTexpat May 2017 #195
Decameron. i found a 1920's edition at an estate sale. pansypoo53219 May 2017 #10
"Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury Number9Dream May 2017 #12
Yes TuxedoKat May 2017 #20
Yes, Spring is a great time to read it. Number9Dream May 2017 #72
I love this. Read it when I was a kid. My favorite of his was The Illustrated Man, ever read that? JudyM May 2017 #74
Yes, and the movie is pretty good too. Number9Dream May 2017 #82
The thing about Bradbury exboyfil May 2017 #58
Yes Indeed!!! TuxedoKat May 2017 #73
Pillar of Fire ChazInAz May 2017 #148
Thanks!!! TuxedoKat May 2017 #158
Monkey Wrench Gang Mendocino May 2017 #13
A couple of series I've reread several times Saviolo May 2017 #14
I love Jasper Fford! Thursday Next is a great character yellowdogintexas May 2017 #110
I also can't wait for the next book in his Shades of Grey series Saviolo May 2017 #122
Love Thursday nt trocar May 2017 #171
My Wife and I love Jasper Fforde genxlib May 2017 #176
There are supposedly forthcoming novels in both Thursday Next and Shades of Grey Saviolo May 2017 #181
1984 - every few years. Although these days I'm not sure spiderpig May 2017 #15
So far, never OriginalGeek May 2017 #16
Reading Books again. wcollar May 2017 #183
The Handmaid's Tale musette_sf May 2017 #18
I'm reading Handmaids Tale for second time now too womanofthehills May 2017 #98
The Stand three times. Floyd R. Turbo May 2017 #19
I've read The Stand 5 times. Callmecrazy May 2017 #88
👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo May 2017 #89
Oh, yes! The Stand. PatrickforO May 2017 #155
Me too, at least 5 stopwastingmymoney May 2017 #188
Thank you for posting... I've read The Stand so many times GreenEyedLefty May 2017 #215
Shibumi by Trevanian DFW May 2017 #21
Do you like Trevanian's other works? FSogol May 2017 #23
I thought The Main was a nice departure from the rest DFW May 2017 #24
I've read Catch-22 over 20 times. FSogol May 2017 #22
Time to reveal how obsessive compulsive one can be PufPuf23 May 2017 #25
Several... Docreed2003 May 2017 #26
You would probably like "Go Set a Watchman" womanofthehills May 2017 #99
I've got a copy...haven't brought myself to read it yet Docreed2003 May 2017 #101
Diana Gabaldon GP6971 May 2017 #27
I'm on my fifth re-reading chervilant May 2017 #149
That was going to be my response AwakeAtLast May 2017 #217
Island by Huxley wasupaloopa May 2017 #28
_One Hundred Years of Solitude_, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; tblue37 May 2017 #29
Yes. Shogun. The Stand. Raster May 2017 #30
Both are on my list, too. n/t sl8 May 2017 #48
Shogun, 5-6 times. I get immersed into that world every time. SharonAnn May 2017 #115
Same here... absolutely love the world Clavell creates... Raster May 2017 #117
Hai, wakarimas ka. n/t Smickey May 2017 #185
Clavell is an excellent author. Throck May 2017 #228
Just a grammar point - a 'fictional book' is one that doesn't exist. 'A book of fiction?' :) (n/t) FreepFryer May 2017 #31
"A Book of Fiction" Didn't Scan Well Leith May 2017 #38
Try "Fiction Book" rock May 2017 #53
I often would re-read "The Books of Bokonon", ... JustABozoOnThisBus May 2017 #43
I cherish my signed first edition of Goldstein's "Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" FreepFryer May 2017 #66
I have been a re-reader all my life. There are many. 3catwoman3 May 2017 #32
Well said stopwastingmymoney May 2017 #191
Thank you... 3catwoman3 May 2017 #194
I've read "Emma" by Jane Austen at least a dozen times. Coventina May 2017 #33
Nothing Wrong with That! Leith May 2017 #39
The Traveler's Gift DaleFromWPB May 2017 #34
I LOVE HARRY POTTER. trueblue2007 May 2017 #35
I've read it four times. Borchkins May 2017 #78
also guilty dembotoz May 2017 #85
I read them for myself, then read all the books to my first grandson starting at about age 5. Hekate May 2017 #124
Lord of the Rings... Wounded Bear May 2017 #36
Me too shenmue May 2017 #50
Childhood's End, The City And the Stars, lastlib May 2017 #37
Very, very seldom have I read a work of fiction twice. eppur_se_muova May 2017 #40
I'm the opposite - Most of the fiction I read, I will read twice or sometimes more womanofthehills May 2017 #100
I don't read like I used to, but everything by Jane Austen and numerous favorites by - Dick Francis. Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #41
Right? stopwastingmymoney May 2017 #192
I used to curl up with a book every night Rhiannon12866 May 2017 #196
All of Agatha Christie. WinkyDink May 2017 #42
Really too numerous to name. malthaussen May 2017 #45
Yes, as an avid reader for too many years to count Homer Wells May 2017 #46
Slaughter-House Five. NNadir May 2017 #47
strange, Leith Skittles May 2017 #49
Flashman Series JDC May 2017 #51
A Confederacy of Dunces... SeattleVet May 2017 #52
Me too re: Dunces. Such an amazing piece of fiction and Ignatius is a remarkable character. LonePirate May 2017 #76
The first time I read it I was living in Queens and working in lower Manhattan. SeattleVet May 2017 #87
Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite! progressoid May 2017 #162
Confederacy of Dunces, Me too emulatorloo May 2017 #201
I've reread many books. TDale313 May 2017 #54
Most of Raymond Chandler's works Miles Archer May 2017 #57
Yrs ago, I was really into Richard Brautigan and was always rereading his books womanofthehills May 2017 #103
Another English major, and a huge Raymond Chandler fan emulatorloo May 2017 #203
Heinlein and Tolkein Thomas Hurt May 2017 #59
Excellent Thread ... I'll Have to Read Some of These. Here's my partial list: KPN May 2017 #60
Several The Blue Flower May 2017 #61
Good answer! Fritz Walter May 2017 #180
Fact-based fiction: In Cold Blood (Truman Capote) and A Fan's Notes (Frederick Exley)... VOX May 2017 #62
Two books both by Kurt Vonnegut Victor_c3 May 2017 #63
'Libraries' downrange - wow roscoeroscoe May 2017 #151
Several times over Hula Popper May 2017 #64
"Goosebumps: The Horror at Camp Jellyjam" Jamaal510 May 2017 #65
For me....... mrmpa May 2017 #67
For those who liked "Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart left-of-center2012 May 2017 #68
Also enjoyed 'Alas, Babylon'! lastlib May 2017 #96
I was thinking of "Alas, Babylon" recently. Also "No Other Man" - 1950's? post nuclear world SharonAnn May 2017 #116
"No Other Man" left-of-center2012 May 2017 #120
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, On the Beach by Neville Shute irisblue May 2017 #69
We reread Nevil Shute both my husband and I. TNNurse May 2017 #135
The Discworld books Nac Mac Feegle May 2017 #71
Catch 22 Marthe48 May 2017 #75
My sister had a bad joke about Euell Gibbons LeftInTX May 2017 #113
I heard something similar about Twiggy Marthe48 May 2017 #140
The Legacy of Herot CanonRay May 2017 #77
No one has mentioned gibraltar72 May 2017 #79
"The Stand" Va Lefty May 2017 #80
Hrolf Kraki's Saga by Poul Anderson Wolf Frankula May 2017 #81
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Worktodo May 2017 #83
Hobbit/Lord of the rings MFM008 May 2017 #84
most books by Michael Crichton yuiyoshida May 2017 #91
He was a serious climate denier genxlib May 2017 #174
never read it... yuiyoshida May 2017 #179
My to-read queue is intimidating enough Codeine May 2017 #93
"The Butterfly Kid"...Chester Anderson (1967) sci-fi Tikki May 2017 #94
I love Dune by Frank Herbert, area51 May 2017 #95
Ah, Dune. Probably my favorite of the genre. Raster May 2017 #118
The US Constitution! Chasstev365 May 2017 #102
Master and Commander... NeoGreen May 2017 #104
Many. LisaM May 2017 #105
So many I've reread... but there are several neeksgeek May 2017 #106
Yes. Zelazny. I had forgotten the Chronicles of Amber. PatrickforO May 2017 #156
Jack Vance: Planet of Adventure aka-chmeee May 2017 #107
"Catcher in the Rye". bif May 2017 #108
Harry Potter series. we can do it May 2017 #109
oh yeah, I've read all of them at least once, and some several times... Raster May 2017 #119
I'm not normally one to re read a book but there are a few that I have to yellowdogintexas May 2017 #111
Thanks to Everyone Leith May 2017 #114
One I haven't seen mentioned - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. lark May 2017 #121
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Disappointed Me Leith May 2017 #125
Dang, I haven't re-read this in decades and couldn't remember lark May 2017 #130
"Sometimes a Great Notion" Thunderbeast May 2017 #139
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test They_Live May 2017 #144
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I've lost count of how many times I've read them... Hekate May 2017 #123
Terry Pratchett wcollar May 2017 #184
I'm rereading them now pscot May 2017 #210
Went looking for a particular quote for a thank you note, and am now rereading Thief of Time... Hekate May 2017 #211
That was the first pscot May 2017 #216
The Increasingly, Inaccurately Named Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy TlalocW May 2017 #126
The Crucible, among others. Grins May 2017 #127
Bloodline - Sidney Sheldon TheDebbieDee May 2017 #129
Dune - Frank Herbert sdfernando May 2017 #131
The Stand murielm99 May 2017 #132
Princess Bride... yuiyoshida May 2017 #133
Shibumi by Rodney Whitaker ("Trevanian"), Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow, and even the one I wrote DFW May 2017 #134
I'm re-reading The Time Cellar right now! vademocrat May 2017 #199
Hey, thanks for the positive review! DFW May 2017 #202
And thank you for such a fun read! vademocrat May 2017 #207
I wasn't planning to write a sequel, so I had to infer the Thai visit another way DFW May 2017 #208
Jane Eyre most TNNurse May 2017 #137
"Another Roadside Attraction" Thunderbeast May 2017 #138
My favorites too - every sentence of Tom Robbins is a creative word salad womanofthehills May 2017 #186
The Great Gatsby maddiemom May 2017 #141
I read Dune every three or four years. Nt hack89 May 2017 #142
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" "Satanic Verses" "100 Years of Solitude" alfredo May 2017 #143
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan MojoWrkn May 2017 #145
Elfstones of Shannara. Volaris May 2017 #146
Nice ... I read all three of the original Shannara's multiple times by the time I was 15 ... mr_lebowski May 2017 #218
Read the rest if you havent. Volaris May 2017 #221
To the Lighthouse. A River Sutra. Cassidy May 2017 #147
The Golden Ass trusty elf May 2017 #150
Mars Trilogy roscoeroscoe May 2017 #152
Yes, several. PatrickforO May 2017 #153
War and Peace joshdawg May 2017 #157
Irving - Garp, Cider House, Owen Meany, Water Method Man...King - Duma Key NRaleighLiberal May 2017 #159
I'm so glad to be able to enjoy good books again Hortensis May 2017 #160
I loved those two books radical noodle May 2017 #167
I re read Isaac Asimov The Polack MSgt May 2017 #161
HP Lovecraft flying rabbit May 2017 #163
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin ornotna May 2017 #164
"Good Omens", "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, Clive Barker's "Cabal", among others... Rhythm May 2017 #165
The Once and Future King (T.H. White); Go Tell It On the Mountain (Baldwin); ancianita May 2017 #169
Stephen King-The Dark Tower series. Doreen May 2017 #172
Good thread Alpeduez21 May 2017 #175
I reread all the time iamateacher May 2017 #177
"The Little Friend" by Donna Tartt. Laffy Kat May 2017 #178
I need to read that - I really liked Tartt's "The Goldfinch" womanofthehills May 2017 #187
I liked it, too, but don't really want to re-read it. Laffy Kat May 2017 #189
Three that changed my thinking LiberalLovinLug May 2017 #182
Oh, my. So many to read, and so many to reread. Stonepounder May 2017 #190
I love this thread stopwastingmymoney May 2017 #193
Keep the Aspadistra Flying by George Orwell Shoonra May 2017 #197
"Trinity" by Leon Uris (A Novel of Ireland) Boomerproud May 2017 #198
I've always been a re-reader - it's like visiting an old friend vademocrat May 2017 #200
Hawaii every 10 years but "Coming Through Slaughter" more often. elehhhhna May 2017 #204
There is one I forgot: The Far Arena by Richard Sapir DFW May 2017 #205
Time Enough for Love BigOleDummy May 2017 #206
Time Enough For Love is a piece of crap Fortinbras Armstrong May 2017 #213
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson pscot May 2017 #209
Personally, I love Dickens LakeArenal May 2017 #212
I regularly re-read Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan novels Fortinbras Armstrong May 2017 #214
On The Road & The Dharma Bums ... mr_lebowski May 2017 #219
I think.. cannabis_flower May 2017 #220
Don't read much fiction anymore dem in texas May 2017 #222
Read Earth Abides...and then The Stand, back to back. Crash2Parties May 2017 #224
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson. BigmanPigman May 2017 #225
1984 Afromania May 2017 #227
Great reading... Mike Nelson May 2017 #229
Any Tolkien... airmid May 2017 #230
Moby Dick, Cannery Row, Tolkien, The Stand, Mote in God's Eye. denbot May 2017 #231
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