How long before re-read?

[Doc Wilson]

I saw where some of you are already re-reading the Dome. As a youth I would re-read books that quickly, but nowadays I like to exploit my dwindling memory abilities and wait to forget most of the details. I find when I wait five years it comes pretty close to feeling like the first time.

How about yall?

[Spideyman]

Depends on my reading schedule. If a book grabs me, like UTD, I'll read it again within a few weeks- to catch small details I may have missed. When it comes to the Dark Tower series- if I hear the "call"- it's time for a re read. Discordia was a call, thus re reading it now.

[~Ally~]

Has to be a while in between re~reads for me. No set time really, but at least a year. My memory is pretty bad too when it comes to books, apart from with my favourites, so most re~reads feel like the first time for me. I may give UTD another go in a few years, but not anytime soon.

[smerdyakov]

For me, it depends on what I want to get out of the reread. With some books, once you get over the initial excitement of being entertained by the story, you can go back for nuances in characters, meaning, etc. With other books, all you really want is that initial excitement and surprise. I wanted the latter after reading the stand, so went about trying to forget the story. Of course, by doing so, I couldn't get the story out of my head and ended up rereading it anyway.

[wally wonder]

i awarded sk the pulitzer prize for lisey's story but nobody paid any attention. reread that one about five or six times. the book fell apart. duma? reread that one, eventually. utd? reread it right away. i've enjoyed each and every reread. there is a book called 'how to write a dam good book (or novel)' i forget and the suggestion there is to read/study/imitate someone you'd like to be able to write like. the amazing part of rereads is that like my recent reread of it--i see stuff i didn't notice before--that no spin yapper on fox had a review of his best ten films--he said the same thing about the godfather II. nobody listens to a song they like once. they play it again and again. i only started reading sk, in ernest, three and half years ago. i've read and reread everything he (well, the novels/stories) has written. there isn't another writer alive (or dead i don't think) whose fiction is like his.

[Srbo]

I simply have no time for re reads.

There is sooooooo many books that i want to read and never did yet, so I just can`t allow myself to re read a book.
I try to memorize and understand it really good the first and only time around.

That`s how it`s been so far, anyway.

[rose key]

Depends on my reading schedule. If a book grabs me, like UTD, I'll read it again within a few weeks- to catch small details I may have missed. When it comes to the Dark Tower series- if I hear the "call"- it's time for a re read. Discordia was a call, thus re reading it now.

Ha-I'm re-reading The Dark Tower series, too! I guess it was Discordia that made me need to read it again. (Great minds think alike!)

To answer the question, I don't know... I don't have a re-read schedule, I just scan the bookshelf till something hits me.

[Gillie]

I find that so many books are worth a reread - sometimes not for many years, but then it's like meeting up with an old high school friend that you didn't even know that you missed.
Sometimes I reread because I need a laugh (or a cry).
I do agree there are only so many hours in a day, but hey i figure I got time. lol

[rjt65]

I just re-read JAS (Just after sunset by u knlow whoooo) --will do UTD in like 6 months I assume. when i have nothing to read i re-read....... re-reading IT now (god dunno how many rereads this makes of IT!)

so for moi---few months i can re-read----

other books of technical nature or learning i might reread right away---

cheers

[PatInTheHat]

I'm finding as I get older, I'm re-reading as I read.

For me it simply depends on the book.
Some I know I'm going to dive back in while I'm still reading it, but it's usually at least a year.
Some just come as a pleasant suprise
Others (about a half dozen or so), like The Stand, are stories I re-read every three, maybe five years...just get a hankerin', like calling an old friend, is all.