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Originally Posted by HarryT
Just finished a re-read of an old friend: "Pawn of Prophecy" by David Eddings, the first book of the "Belgariad". One of my all-time favourite books, and one which I try to re-visit every few years. This is, I should add, the first time I've read it as an ebook, and the ebook is pretty good. Nicely formatted and very few errors.
It's books like this which make the attitude of "I never re-read books" incomprehensible to me.
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It's not really an attitude, I just don't enjoy it. The best I can say is that I have reread books when times were tough, and managed to choke down a couple.
I find that a chapter or two in I remember the ending, and that is fine. But as it goes on I remember more and more, and instead of that comforting feeling of familiarity I get restless and bored. Not intentional I assure you.
And if I am re-reading a book it is often because I have hung onto it because I enjoyed it the first time, although sometimes it is accidental.
There have been times I wish I could enjoy rereading because I have lived in small northern communities where books were scarce and other forms of entertainment were even scarcer. We are talking one horse towns here where the horse is dead and buried.
But overall there are far too many books available that I want to read these days. I will never get to read them all. But I can't really complain about that
Enjoy your reading however you choose to do it.
Helen