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[FastDogWalker2]

I do re read but also read new books!

[shesallthat]

yes i am a re-reader,too! right now i am re-reading "forever amber" for the second time.

someone said it is like visiting old friends and places again that you really enjoy and i agree.

[CluckCluck]

The only book I have read 3-4 times is 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand. I first read it in college and it just stayed with me. I re-read it every few years, and I enjoy it just as much each time. In fact, time to pull it out again. Who is John Galt?

[DoneTryin]

Yes, there are a few that I re-read, then I complain about not having enough time to read all the books on my reading list - LOL! Sometimes, though, it's a case of needing the comfort of something familiar. I re-read Gone With The Wind & The Stand every 3-4 years. All things considered, I don't re-read that much, though.

[gardenman]

I'm constantly rereading. I've got tons of new books on my Kindle to read, but I find myself rereading older books instead of the new ones. A known good read is more fun for me than the potential in an unknown book.

[Honeybit]

Hey, gardenman, you sound like a kindred spirit! I even used to spend a lot of time in South Jersey for my job (Absecon area). Try reading Craig Johnson's Longmire Mysteries if you haven't run across them -- great writing about great characters and well worth adding to your rereading list; they're much more about the people than the mysteries.

[Annabellethecat66]

Very, very seldom will I re-read a book. That said, I recently ordered (and received) the book "My Mother/Myself" by Nancy Friday.

That book is wonderful. Over the years (many years ago), I have recommended that book to many of friends and strangers. Whomever I spoken to that expresses a feeling of discontent with their Mother.

So, to sum up, I have only re-read a few books.

[Honeybit]

Don't want to beat this re-reading topic to death, but I'm in the middle of re-reading all of Allen Drury's political novel series (Advise and Consent, Shade of Difference, Capable of Honor, Preserve and Protect, Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, and Promise of Joy). I'm almost finished with Capable of Honor. Two things strike me about these books: the first is how well Drury writes -- he just grabs you from the outset and never lets go, and his characters are all vividly alive -- and the second is how well these books, written in the 60's, hold up all these years later. You might as well be reading headlines out of today's paper (which is kind of sad, considering how little has changed). I'm not a fan of books about politics in general, but if you're looking for a smashing good read with some meat on its bones, try Allen Drury.

[Tinkrbl44]

I have read all 20 of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series ...... they were well written and funny that I read them again. Some I've read 3 times.

I find that I get more out of it the second time because things are missed the first time.

For anyone who reads the Stephanie Plum books ..... Morelli or Ranger?

I'm a RANGER girl, all the way.

[ennui1]

On 12/23/2013 beckyb1012 said:

I read five to six books a week

Seriously?

No, I don't re-read. I usually remember too much from the first go-round, so even if I want to read something again, I lose interest within a couple of chapters.