02-19-2012, 12:11 PM | #31 |
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I feel anxious when I reread, knowing there are sooo many other books I want/need to read.
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02-19-2012, 12:14 PM | #32 |
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I guess I am with Frostschutz and others. I reread for many reasons--and yes, I do have "comfort books" for times when I just need to "turn off". I do not have a lot of money nor great libraries nearby. I watch movies repeatedly for personal and social reasons or simply convenience.
What fascinates me here are the different perspectives, thoughts and reasoning. We are all totally different and each person seems to have a completely different explanation. That just shows how utterly personal media consumption truly is (as we are talking here more than just reading), no matter what we are told by "specialists" and the media. There are just too many factors--both personal, social, cultural, financial, etc. that play a role in these decisions. And there is no one right way. I have a hard time imagining never repeat-reading. Just as I am sure those who are so would have a hard time understanding me having read a couple of books literally 100 times. sigh. |
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02-19-2012, 12:19 PM | #33 |
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I don't have comfort books. I have comfort music.
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02-19-2012, 12:41 PM | #34 |
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I have no problem re-reading books. In fact I've re-read several thick books like The Stand, Shogun, and The Lord of the Rings.
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02-19-2012, 12:51 PM | #35 |
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I don't think re-reading books is weird... and neither do I think preferring to only read books once and move on is weird. What I do think is weird is the desire to make either of those two preference seem more "weird/normal" than the other one. Since when do preferences have to make sense?
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02-19-2012, 12:56 PM | #36 | |
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02-19-2012, 01:02 PM | #37 |
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I have "comfort food" books, but they aren't all necessarily "feelgood" stories. They just happen to be books where I liked the experience and want it again.
I like having a stock collection of old standbys. This does not mean I won't read books I haven't heard of before. That's why the library is there. It takes a lot of love and dedication for a book to move from a library loan into a "can't live without" but occasionally a book grabs me that way. |
02-19-2012, 01:08 PM | #38 | |
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02-19-2012, 02:31 PM | #39 |
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I definitely do - mostly fantasy. Chief among them is "The Lord of the Rings" and David Eddings's "Belgariad" series. They, for me, are most definitely "comfort reading".
Strangely perhaps, fantasy is not my main reading genre - I spend most of my time reading British detective stories - but they have distinctly limited re-reading potential (or, at least, need a gap of a few years to aid forgetting who did it). |
02-19-2012, 02:46 PM | #40 |
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I do re-read, a lot.
I must have read all of the Flashman books several times each, similar for pretty much everything by Christopher Brookmyre, Iain Banks (without the 'M'), Carl Hiaasen and Bill Bryson. Probably the books I have read most often are Bill Bryson's 'Mother Tongue'; it's a good book for dipping in and out of, so I don't always read it end to end, but I would guess I've read every word of it at least a dozen times; and Bertrand Russell's 'History of Western Philosophy', which I have read at least once a year for the last 20 years or so. |
02-19-2012, 03:24 PM | #41 |
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If I did not re-read or re-view,
there would be absolutely ZERO reason to buy a (e)book, music or movie Rental or public library would be the only way to go. But I do There are shelves and crates of Books, LP records, Open Reel and Cassette Tapes, Laser Disks, VHS Tapes, DVD's, Blu Ray and now flash/Hard drives of EPUB and Mobi |
02-19-2012, 04:27 PM | #42 |
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This is not a constant for me; I will re-read some books I have read before and really liked, but I haven't and I know I will not with others, and some of these I may have ironically liked more. i can't speak for anyone else of course, but for me, I think I revisit the books which were a combination of satisfaction and were easy reads, lazy I suppose but that's me. Whereas I know I probably won't see Gandalf and Samwise and Frody again in my lifetime (sniff!), but I think that's not just a lazy mind but more it is so involved that I could eat several other moderately sized new books / books not read before, and so choose to do that.
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02-19-2012, 05:52 PM | #43 |
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I also revisit old friends and feel comfort in rereading. But what I have noticed is that in time I see the same book in a different way. My life experience changes and things I omitted or, rather didn't think much of while reading it long time ago now matter.
Example: I read "Kristin daughter of Lavrans" by Sigrid Undset many moons ago while being single and not being a mum. Now I can relate to the characters in a more mature way, see and understand more. About myself too. |
02-19-2012, 06:17 PM | #44 |
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If you don't ever intend to revisit the book, why buy it?
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02-19-2012, 06:29 PM | #45 | |
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Or cheap secondhand books. Since I don't re-read, I have never bought new books or saved any books. It's a novelty to have a book library on my computer and eReader at the moment, if the files weren't so tiny I'd be deleting the ones I've read. |
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