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Originally Posted by tompe
I have seen it argued that re-reading a book is a totally different activity then reading it for the first time. But I think that mostly applies when you read things deeply. I reread and the experience is a bit different but not so much. The experience is very similar to reading the book the first time so if it was a very good bok that you enjoyed very much the first time than it is definitely worth rereading.
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I think that one way to define "great" literature is that you can get more and more out of it the more you re-read it. That's why I regard Dickens so highly as an author; the more you re-read the books, the more you get out of them.