Re-reading ????

[hysteria_625]

I love to reread. The Stand has become a yearly reread and never loses its edge - going on 20 years! I agree too that as I've matured and gone back to reread books I haven't read since junior high or high school I was able to look at them with a differnent eye/mind. I just finished rereading The Tommyknockers. This was the first SK book I read in junior high and one of the few SK books I'd not reread. It was like rediscovering an old friend.

[LOTUS]

An amazing book can be reread dozens of times without it ever getting old.

You said it.

[jacobtlong]

I don't reread often. I've yet to even reread The Dark Tower series, but I will before the year is out.

[Jojo87]

I haven't re-read a book yet. But plan to read Black House. I started last summer with it, never finished the book. And now I'll try again.

[Doc Wilson]

I just began a re-read of the SK cannon. I found that the ones I've read over twenty years ago are just vague memories now.

A couple of times now I've picked up one to re-read that was too familiar to enjoy and had to put it back down. I can't stand to re-read something if I know page to page what is going to happen.

I just ordered a copy of Cycle of the Werewolf, looking forward to having a go at re-reading it.

[Mephisto]

Man, when I was in college, and especially in grad school, it seemed like there was no such thing as just reading a book once, LOL! But when reading strictly for pleasure . . . ? Sometimes I'll read a book a second or third time if I had a good experience with it in the past, but there are usually several years between reads.

[scarywriter]

one of the great things about a book much more than movies or tv is that the reader brings him/herself to it. Personal experience, age, social status, education and a whole array of factors can all influence which characters or situations you sympathize with or how you understand it. They will effect what you take away from the writing. As you get older, grow, mature, and generally change you bring those changes to the books you read or reread. So really, imho, every reading is new in a way.

[Matthew.Degnan]

I don't tend to re-read books but I have re-read On Writing 3 times and a few other SK books quite a few times. I only re-read books that are really really amazing.

[wally wonder]

they got this section in most bookstores, the classics. most if not all of them are worth reading time and again. they got this other section in most bookstores, in the "k" section. yeah, so anyway, there's this guy up in maine, stephen king, and like, he's the equivalent of shakespeare, only he's living in our time, man. (sorry, reading pynchon and i'm back in the 60s, or early 70s) shakespeare has been read, spoke, studied. i've done that. i've done the classics. i derive as much pleasure from rereading sk as i have with those others. so...go figure.

[Firebird]

you re-watch movies, why not re-read books?