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dickon25 · 10-09-2008, 02:36 PM

Just about the only books I ever re-read are 'classics', particularly Jane Austen and Dickens. I do it for the wonderful rich language - I don't think anyone sets a period scene like Austen.

I immerse myself in a book and love the flow of it but I find that with most books, knowing the story and how it ends is enough........until I start the next one. Having said that, I once found an old paperback in a second-hand shop which was called 'The Man Who Awoke' by Laurence Manning - an SF tale which was so thought-provoking I must have re-read it twenty times! (No accounting for taste, I know!).

10-09-2008, 02:36 PM	#46
dickon25 Groupie Posts: 199 Karma: 818 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: UK Device: Sony PRS-505. Pocketbook Inkpad 840	Just about the only books I ever re-read are 'classics', particularly Jane Austen and Dickens. I do it for the wonderful rich language - I don't think anyone sets a period scene like Austen. I immerse myself in a book and love the flow of it but I find that with most books, knowing the story and how it ends is enough........until I start the next one. Having said that, I once found an old paperback in a second-hand shop which was called 'The Man Who Awoke' by Laurence Manning - an SF tale which was so thought-provoking I must have re-read it twenty times! (No accounting for taste, I know!).