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xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,296
edited March 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Does anyone do this? Recently I've been doing this as I have a large collection of sports books that haven't been read in a few years. It's interesting to read about the names in the books and see what they have or have not done after the book came out.
Reading 2004
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
Philadelphia 2024
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    There's a few books that I've read more than once:

    The Catcher in the rye - Sallinger
    On the road - Kerouac
    Mysteries - Knut Hamsun
    The electric Kool aid acid test - Ken Kesey
    The great Gatsby
  • small town becksmall town beck Posts: 6,691
    Yep I have read a good number of Stephen King books, multiple times. Summer Sisters by Judy Blume at least three times. To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye, I try to re-read periodically. I am sure there are others but those are the ones on off the top of my head. Oh yeah and I have re-read some of my Marian Keyes because they are SO good.
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    i read sooooo much, and sometimes i just cant find anything new that i want to read, or the 100 or so books that i have yet to read on my shelf because i just dont think i will be into it at the time.

    so i tend to re-read at least one book a month.


    there are about 25 books that i have read at least once every other year or so.

    if its fiction, its like visiting old friends again.

    kinda cool.
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  • FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,961
    Yep! I cannot get rid of books that I love, especially in the fantasy genre. If a new book in a series comes out I have to re-read all the previous books before I'll read the latest one. A little annoying with the Wheel of Time series as I think it's at around twelve or thirteen books now and apparently no resolution in sight. I love re-reading the George R. R. Martin series Songs of Fire and Ice. I can hardly wait for the new one (in the Fall please please please). Dragonlance, Anne Rice, etc.

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  • PJamGrunge10PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 596
    I cannot do this. I have no motivation to reread a book even if I like it. I've only read one book twice (a long time ago) and that was because we read it in class at my school, and then I read it again next year cus my mom bought it for me...
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  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    Fifthelement wrote:
    Yep! I cannot get rid of books that I love, especially in the fantasy genre. If a new book in a series comes out I have to re-read all the previous books before I'll read the latest one. A little annoying with the Wheel of Time series as I think it's at around twelve or thirteen books now and apparently no resolution in sight. I love re-reading the George R. R. Martin series Songs of Fire and Ice. I can hardly wait for the new one (in the Fall please please please). Dragonlance, Anne Rice, etc.

    Cheers!


    hahah i was going to post this with the wheel of time and the martin series im re-reading right now,im onthe second book, a clash of kings, i hvae yet to read the newest one(a feast of crows) so im hoping that the new one comes out in the summer so i can read both and be caught up oh and wheel of time is at 11 books with the last one coming out sometime soon here theyre just trying to figure out all the legal shit with is wife and the publisher since Robert Jordan died.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    absolutely. with certain authors. and books i feel require a second or even third reading. :)
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    i've read a few books more than once...

    also that wee hungry caterpillar one I must know off by heart cos my girls loved it and i had to read it to them loads.

    as a kid I was obsessed by James and the Giant Peach.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    dunkman wrote:
    i've read a few books more than once...

    also that wee hungry caterpillar one I must know off by heart cos my girls loved it and i had to read it to them loads.

    as a kid I was obsessed by James and the Giant Peach.

    I was obsessed by Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. I must have read it about 20 times.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    dunkman wrote:
    i've read a few books more than once...

    also that wee hungry caterpillar one I must know off by heart cos my girls loved it and i had to read it to them loads....
    .

    but he was still hungry. :D:D
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    I was obsessed by Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. I must have read it about 20 times.

    oh aye.

    I loved that book!

    I must have really loved Dahl's surrealism as a kid.. just as i love painting marmosets as an adult.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • SchokiSchoki Posts: 5,072
    Love to re read the great ones. Interesting how ones imagination changes with the years and how one stumbles over new details.
  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 3,965
    Not as a rule, but there are several I have. If a book I have read is being made into a movie that is one time I especially will re-read. I enjoy refreshing myself and also enjoy pointing to others out why reading the book is better than just watching the movie! :)
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  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    dunkman wrote:
    i've read a few books more than once...

    also that wee hungry caterpillar one I must know off by heart cos my girls loved it and i had to read it to them loads.

    as a kid I was obsessed by James and the Giant Peach.
    Yep! All parents have been there. Some of the kids books i didn't have to open as I knew them off by heart.

    I've read a couple of books twice but not done it for a few years. I will read "The Shadow of the Wind" again in time as it was superb.
  • LindaLinda Posts: 1,656
    I do, even more than twice, some books are like friends :o
    i'm not happy yet.....
  • PJSerfPJSerf Posts: 637
    Yeah, I've re-read To Kill a Mockingbird a few times, and re-read the Lord of the Rings books when the movies were coming out just to brush up.
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Two words USED BOOKSTORES helloooo?

    hehe... j/k
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Two words USED BOOKSTORES helloooo?

    hehe... j/k

    Don't be encouraging me into one of them Roland. I'm like a crack whore in a used bookstore. :D

    To Kill a Mockingbird I think I've read 10 times now. Love that book.
    And A.B Facey's A Fortunate Life I read every couple of years.
    There are others, I can't think of right now.
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  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    dunkman wrote:
    as a kid I was obsessed by James and the Giant Peach.

    I read Matilda dozens of times as a kid. :D I love Roald Dahl's books, both for kids and grownups, definitely re-reading material.

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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    I just re-read "To Kill A Mockingbird". The last time I read it was in 8th grade. It was much better the second time around.
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  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,931
    Sometimes.

    I read Fear and Loathing in America a few times in a very short period of time.

    And Poe, I think I've read all his stories at least twice.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I think most literature students or teachers will have read certain books up to twenty times from cover to cover, and passages of the texts many more than that.

    In some ways, when you're studying textual scholarship, you start thinking if it's physically possible to read the same book twice, if you're referring to different editions. In the days before stereotyping was used in textual production, I'm sure there'd be plenty of differences, however subtle, between one copy of a book and another. (Come to think of it, texts often wouldn't be bought, bound. You'd have to send them to a binder.)

    Anyway, I must have awakened some dark distant corner of my brain with this topic. I'll go back to munching coal and staring at the wall, now.
  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,158
    Yes, I reread books. Some books I reread because I feel that you pick up something new with each read. Some books I reread just because I enjoyed them and want to go back and remember the story. I can read an author like John Grisham over and over again, especially if it's been a while and I've forgotten a lot of the plot.
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    FUCKING OATH!!!!!
    I have a book that is my most FAVOURITE book ever...im not shitting you, I have read it atleast 15 times. Every time I read it I get transported to another place, and I can completely indulge...even though I know what is going to happen each time....I still like going there :)

    And most of my other books I have read about three times each.
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  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,296
    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Does Playboy count ?

    ;)


    they have articles in there??
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    I re-read the Celestine Prophecy because I wanted to grasp it again after I had a conversation about that book

    I tend to not re-read books, but would love to go through all my Stephen King books again one day
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    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • civ_eng_girlciv_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    i do re-read my favorites every once in a while:

    The Cider House Rules - John Irving
    A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
    Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
    Fall On Your Knees - Ann Marie MacDonald
    Tales Of The City - Armistead Maupin

    even though i love the stories, i tend to forget the details after a few years... it's like a whole new book!! :)
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  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    I'm well into double figures of re-reading some of my favourite books.. Sometimes there's comfort in familiarity, sometimes it's just to remind myself how good they are.
    I would agree with those who say a book is different every time you read it.. Just as you're mood changes, so does your perspective. And I often find myself looking forward to favourite chapters or passages in a book.


    And I can lose whole days in second hand bookstores... and I have :)
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  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Byrnzie wrote:
    There's a few books that I've read more than once:

    The Catcher in the rye - Sallinger
    On the road - Kerouac
    Mysteries - Knut Hamsun
    The electric Kool aid acid test - Ken Kesey
    The great Gatsby
    :)
    Catcher in the rye
    On the road
    and The Great Gatsby I try to read every year. :)
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    The answer is yes, I do re-read.
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    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
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