Books worth re-reading

[charis9]

Originally Posted by spindlegirl

I've read and re-read Anne of Green Gables
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Nineteen Eighty Four
Fahrenheit 451

When I was a teenager in the early 80s I read "Go Ask Alice" and used to be kept awake at night over the fate of the "diarist". Fast forward another 20 years when I get the memo that it wasn't a real diary.

Nineteen Eighty Four... reread it 3 times

[drofgnal]

This must be my reread year. I've reread Lord of the rings. In anticipation of Ken Follet's third Kingsbridge novel due this fall I'm rereading Pillars of the Earth and World without End.

[dworth]

I spent a chunk of last year reading all of Iain M Banks's sci-fi novels, and it was definitely time well spent.

Ninteen Eighty-Four is always worth a re-read. Each time you see something that you'd missed before and which still resonates with the world we live in today.

I must get around to re-reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It was one of our texts for my English A Level (for American readers, A Levels are the qualifications that you take in British schools, with the exception of Scotland, between 16 and 18). Needless to say we over-analysed it to death, and it sucked any pleasure from it that I might have gained. I was heartily sick of it after two years. However, the recent TV adaptation of it really is very good and after 22 years I feel the urge to pick it up again.

[Luffy]

Originally Posted by drofgnal

This must be my reread year. I've reread Lord of the rings. In anticipation of Ken Follet's third Kingsbridge novel due this fall I'm rereading Pillars of the Earth and World without End.

I'm astounded to know that there will be a third Kingsbridge novel. It's coming pretty fast on the heels of book 2. Maybe Follett is thinking most of his career is in the past, so he didn't wait for a long time for this.

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by spindlegirl

When I was a teenager in the early 80s I read "Go Ask Alice" and used to be kept awake at night over the fate of the "diarist". Fast forward another 20 years when I get the memo that it wasn't a real diary.

But there were many girls out there for whom it was a generic truth. I read it in high school too.