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Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 1:46 pm
by BurtReynolds
Anyone read the same books once a year or so? Or are you a read once and throw away guy?
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 1:58 pm
by Jorge
Not regularly no
There are books that I've revisited with age, particularly stuff that resonated with me in my teens / early 20s to see if it still hits
But I don't think I've ever read a book more than twice.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 2:07 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 2:08 pm
by LoathedVermin72
The only things I reread regularly are Lovecraft short stories. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a novel more than once, at least not yet. Too much of a time commitment when there are so many other books to read.
That said, I would like to reread Robert Caro’s The Power Broker someday. I did the audiobook the first time and I’d really like to read it on paper.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 2:12 pm
by Jorge
tragabigzanda wrote:Similar to Jorge, there were a handful of books I read multiple times in my teens and twenties, but nothing really since then. Back then it was stuff like:
Tortilla Flat (Steinbeck)
Cannery Row (Steinbeck)
The Pearl (Steinbeck)
Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
The Stranger (Camus)
For me it was mainly stuff that helped shape my worldview, like On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky and The Dice Man by George Cockroft
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 2:20 pm
by BurtReynolds
I read Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Unique and Its Property pretty regularly. Spinoza's Ethics is another one.
As far as straight fiction I might read Blindsight again pretty soon.
There are probably several that I need to read again in order to really get them, but I probably won't make a habit of it.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 4:52 pm
by wease
I re-read all the Parker novels by Richard Stark every couple of years. There are multiple comics/collections I re-read often. I’ll be revisiting Greg? Rucka’s Queen & Country series at some point soon. I do all the Fleming 007 novels every few years. I used to do a handful of Stephen King every so often but I fell out of those.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 4:53 pm
by wease
Oh! And the Making of all the Star Wars books by Rinzler get re-reads every so often.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 4:57 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 5:19 pm
by blueviper
I'll revisit 1984 from time to time
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 5:24 pm
by VinylGuy
Not sure if I re read all of it, but Catcher in the rye, American psycho and lunar park and some stuff like Kiedies and Kim Gordon biography’s.
Also stuff like grunge is dead or everybody loves our town.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 5:46 pm
by Simple Torture
I do re-read books all the time, but I usually max out at twice because there are so many things to read, but there are a few that come to mind that I’ve made a point to read every few years over the past 15 years. Not surprisingly, they’re big novels. Goodreads is a little hard to sort in this regard, and it only goes back to 2007 or so for me, but some repeats have been:
2666 (2009, 2014, 2018, 2024 [in progress])
The Savage Detectives (2009, 2012, 2019, 2024)
Moby-Dick (2005, 2008, 2022)
Middlesex (2012, 2013, 2017)
Infinite Jeat (2009, 2012, 2014, 2018)
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 7:14 pm
by epilogue
There are far too many books I've never read to spend time revisiting any that I have. So, no. I don't reread any books regularly.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 7:37 pm
by doug rr
I'm not much of a reader of novels but the only book I've read more than once is Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy..
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 7:51 pm
by Simple Torture
When I was teaching, I would often read the same book 2-3 times per year, but I don’t think I ever really “counted” that as a reading. If I did, there are probably some books I’ve read 7-8 times. And if I could somehow count up the pieces of books I re-read to write papers and my dissertation, I’d add some more readings. But, again, I don’t think I’d count those.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 10:39 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
None regularly. I'm not opposed to it, but I already struggle enough to get through books (through no fault of them) and i'd generally rather read something new to me. I have read a good bit of my favorites twice though.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 10:42 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 10:44 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'd generally rather read something new to me
Who else would you read it to
Your wife in bed lol
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 10:46 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Books you reread regularly
Posted: Tue June 25, 2024 10:51 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'd generally rather read something new to me
Who else would you read it to
Your wife in bed lol
Fine but you have to do original voices for everyone
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