On Re-reading ~~~~~~

[staropeace]

This happens to me alot and it is strange The first time I read UTD,I did not fancy it much. I just finished it again and loved every word! The same thing with Insomnia....which is my all time favorite.

Are other's having the same experience with reading?

[Spideyman]

What amazes me when I re read a book is the number of flash forwards that were present. The little clues that were there, but you just read over them the first time around.

[Doc Wilson]

I don't do quick re-reads like a lot of folks here. I have to let them sit for 5 years at a minimum.

But yeah, my opinion often changes with the re-read, and usually for the better. It, Desperation, Dreamcatcher, Rose Madder and Bag of Bones were all much better than the first time I read them.

[Roseasharn]

I reread all my favorites by any author once a year. (By the book calendar)
And I love it.
I'm rereading the Great Gatsby right now and just finished rereading To Kill a Mockingbird. Next month, it'll be the DT series again.

[JohnDalglish]

This happens to me alot and it is strange The first time I read UTD,I did not fancy it much. I just finished it again and loved every word! The same thing with Insomnia....which is my all time favorite.

Are other's having the same experience with reading?

Hi,

Glad you liked UtD the second time, Staro.

I thought your initial disappointment with it surprising!

I've just finished DT, and I'm gonna re-read them all in chronologiical order, starting with Carrie.

Long days and pleasant nights

[sam peebles]

I was a habitual re-reader at one point, but I've been doing good recently. Over a year now I've been reading entirely new books (even though Lord of the Rings always starts calling out to me around this time of year). I agree about what everyone else here has said about liking books more on the second time around. I hated Blackhouse the first time I read it, and while I'm still not crazy about it, the second read was much more enjoyable as I knew what to expect. I've found a lot of King books only get better the more rides you take.

[GNTLGNT]

Re-reads for me often reveal detail I missed on the original page-rifflin' adventure...I read like a fat guy at an endless buffet the first go around....

[randallFlaggfan1]

Recently, I re-read The Stand, Unabridged, it completely blew me away. I could not believe how much I'd forgotten. I kept telling my fiancee that it's like reading it for the first time.

[Wayne C. Rogers]

Rose,
If you like To Kill a Mockingbird, then read The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale. This novel was one of the best during the last decade.

John,
You have the right idea. I want to start re-reading King again, too, beginning with Carrie. I really want to get into The Shining and The Stand.

[jcasey]

Im not a big re-reader of the long ones, but I SO love Kings short stories! I could read them over and over again, for some reason they always surprise me. And even in the shorties I find things that I missed before. Should make an effort to go back through the novels. Could read Liseys Story and Bag of Bones again..?