Visting Old Friends

Lola, I do hope you're reading Chaucer in the original Middle English. A modern translation is cheating, you know.

Hi Dream!! I love your Avatar!! Thanks for posting to this thread, which brought it up to the current list..... Lots of good recommendations here.

Just this week, I pulled "The Sirens Of Titan" (by Vonnegut) off the shelf, to recommend it to my daughter. As I was thumbing through the pages, I realized that I wanted to re-read this book.

I'm just starting to re-read "The Two Towers", before seeing the movie. I still have my original three paperbacks for the trilogy, and the edges are sunburned and worn. I carried those paperbacks for many miles!! They're like old warm familiar friends.

The Sirens of Titan is one of my favorite Vonneguts, too. Not quite up to the quality of Cat's Cradle or Mother Night, but still one his better efforts.

Oh MA, I guess Cliff Notes would be cheating too. Hummmmmmmmm...... just call me a cheater.

books i would read again
Good grief, at this point in my life - as memory wanes
a bit, I should like to reread every book I have ever
really enjoyed. It is like reading it all over again.
Gone with The Wind, every book written by Pearl Buck,
I really love some of Stephen King and I detest some
of it....but The Stand, and The Green Mile and J Irving's
Cider House Rules AND The 238 Pound Marriage AND
The World According To Garp, And A widow For One Year
( I have yet to read The Fourth Hand) I love his full
fledged characters who you get to know so intimately
that you can't stand it for the book to be over...these
are like...people you have grown to care for, be part of.
He is masterful at character development. I could read
and re read anything that was written by Thoreau daily.
There simply are not enough hours in a day, days in
a month, months in a year - or years that I can be
certain I have left. So, why do I spend all this time
yakking on A2K?

I don't imagine I will ever tire of re-reading Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories (Arthur Conan Doyle), a definite favourite of mine. Though I haven't done so far, I feel sure that I will be re-reading John Buchan's Richard Hannay novels pretty soon!
Like babsatamelia though, I spend more time online than reading these days!

Hi all... Like many others have already posted, I usually don't reread much because of a long reading list. There are a few exceptions though that I have reread and probably will always from time to time:
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Love for Lydia, by H.E. Bates

The last one I reread was Cat's Eye - Atwood. Just as good the second time around.

The MOST reread? Lessing's Golden Notebook ... Something like 5 (?) times ... I've lost count. Though haven't read it again recently ... Just living life is complicated enough right now!

Most attempts (& failures) to read? Ulysses (sp?). Maybe I've missed out there?

Rereading is the acid test of quality for a novel. If it can stand up to a second reading, it truly is a good book. I recently reread the first 2 volumes of Proust--a wonderful experience. I plan to reread the rest of it later this year. Also, I just finished rereading my once beloved Raymond Chandler and was disappointed. I think I have outgrown him. This is a shame, because he used to be one of my favorite writers. So you see, sometimes rereading can be dangerous!