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Curmudgeoness

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20. You named two of mine that it is time to reread.

Reply to Chemisse (Reply #19)

Thu Jun 14, 2012, 05:07 PM

Jun 2012

Pillars of the Earth is one of my all-time favorites that I have read twice, and The Stand is so awesome and it has been a long time for that one. I just reread Call of the Wild a year or two ago, and at the same time I reread Black Beauty (which I had forgotten a lot about since it had been so long).

Thanks for reminding me of past-due rereads.

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Do you like to read books a second (or third) time? [View all] mvccd1000 Jun 2012 OP

Almost every single one krispos42 Jun 2012 #1

I reread for many reasons. Staph Jun 2012 #2

Your first paragraph is my main reason.. fadedrose Jun 2012 #4

I reread some books every five to ten years. Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #3

That's my approach too. Chemisse Jun 2012 #19

You named two of mine that it is time to reread. Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #20

Nope. I almost never reread books jp11 Jun 2012 #5

Some books I do. I've read ALAS BABYLON several times. I like the way the characters raccoon Jun 2012 #6

Sometimes, but rarely getting old in mke Jun 2012 #7

Varies dmallind Jun 2012 #8

I'm rereading "The Mysterious Island" but this time the original. Sometimes there's dimbear Jun 2012 #9

Where do you find the original Verne Curmudgeoness Jun 2012 #21

Great French site: dimbear Jun 2012 #22

layering and depth violetsurf Jun 2012 #10

A good book is like an old friend JitterbugPerfume Jun 2012 #11

Great way to look at it. mvccd1000 Jun 2012 #12

After re-reading this thread I got a giggle fit... Little Star Jun 2012 #18

I must have re-read The Travis McGee Series... Little Star Jun 2012 #13

I reread books all the time, particularly if they are a series and the new one is coming out mtnester Jun 2012 #14

I do. AngryOldDem Jun 2012 #15

Not as much now as I used to pscot Jun 2012 #16

awesome... fe6252fes Jun 2012 #17

Sometimes. It just depends. Like others who responded here SheilaT Jun 2012 #23

I have a few I reread every decade or so. Mz Pip Jun 2012 #24

Interesting point about Mark Twain. mvccd1000 Jun 2012 #25

It recently dawned on me that "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" was another one of... Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #28

I have re-read Dante about every five years for the last forty years Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2012 #26

Madame Bovary, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ladies Man, In Cold Blood, and Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #27