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Originally Posted by Shades
I tend to not reread. My reason is simple and probably common: I remember what happens, so it's not the same.
Now, I don't re-watch movies often either. Same reason, if I know what happens, it's just not that interesting.
Though I do watch movies that someone has already spoiled or I spoiled for myself by reading a synopsis. That doesn't seem to bother me a bit. Same goes for books too. I guess it's my personal memory of the story that stops me from re-watching or rereading.
Music is different. It's the rhythm, the beat, the noise, the feelings. The story, if it tells one is secondary to all that. That's my opinion at least.
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Well, the thing you say about the music is what holds for books for me (and for a lot of other people). The plot is secondary. You get this in opinions like "knowing who is the killer should in a good crime story not make the experience of the book worse" and so on.
I cannot understand reading primary for the plot. Why then just read a plot synopsis? The things you miss with a plot synopsis you maybe can get more efficiently through music or through something else that is non-narrative.