do you re-read books?

also evening up tables

you're thinking of thin books

I reread irregularly but reasonably often, I guess. Would also say that I don't really enjoy audiobooks that are new to me--I have trouble not being able to set my own pace, skip back a few lines, etc--but when you already know the book a bit having a good actor read it to you, so you can really wallow in the language, is a delight.

I want to read only what I’ll want to reread—the definition of a book worth reading once.

That's crazy talk.

I have the same problem as Aussie James even if I have already read the book. I still need to listen to the audiobook twice.

yes but not that often. i mean i re-read a lot of the stuff i read in high school in my early 20s and started going thru all the stuff i wasn't assigned semi-recently. re-reading your favorite books after 5, 10+ years is essential imo

as with anything your relationship will inevitably be different with it the older you are. it's great. but i always feel like i don't have enough time to re-read rather than read something new to me

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i always feel like i don't have enough time to re-read rather than read something new to me

you don't have enough time either way

i know!!!!!

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I do very little re-reading. I have a completist drive in most culture, of wanting to know about everything, and it keeps me from going deeper into works I've already read. It's insane, because obviously I won't live long enough to watch every notable movie, let alone read every notable book. It's also bad because my shelves fill up and up. I spent a year not buying books and even then I didn't have to re-read, so much stuff I've bought and not read yet.

This year I'm trying to read/re-read all of E.M. Forster. I hope limiting myself to one author will give me greater appreciation for diving deep into things, which might lead to re-reading more.

RANDOM INTERVIEW5: "How rapidly do you read?" Miss Hanks asked a
young girl.
"One hundred and twenty words a minute," the girl said.
"On Earth some of the girl students your age have learned to read at
the rate of five hundred words a minute," Miss Hanks said proudly.
"When I began disciplined reading, I was reading at the rate of four
thousand words a minute," the girl said. "They had quite a time correcting
me of it. I had to take remedial reading, and my parents were ashamed of me.
Now I've learned to read almost slow enough."

That's one of Lafferty's bratty magic kids. I hear that in Delany's recent book the characters can inject all of literature into their brains in minutes, which sounds like something from a horror movie.

I'm re-reading Light in August.

xp lol but the point in the Lafferty story(s) is that reading sloooooow is what the kids need to learn

philology innit

I reread irregularly but reasonably often, I guess. Would also say that I don't really enjoy audiobooks that are new to me--I have trouble not being able to set my own pace, skip back a few lines, etc--but when you already know the book a bit having a good actor read it to you, so you can really wallow in the language, is a delight.

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, January 28, 2018 4:08 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is me to a T. I still occasionally get new-to-me audiobooks, but most of the ones I have purchased were from books I've read in the past. I do most of my audiobook listening while at work, and it used to bother me that I'd lose my place, mentally speaking, if I happened to be listening while working on a complicated work problem. Listening to an audiobook of a book I already read alleviates that anxiety for me.

As far as actually reading books, I'd say I spend about half my time re-reading a book, and half checking out a new one.

This thread is making me think I should reread more. The last book I reread was Tragic Sense of Life, though I do reread a fair amount of poetry.

you know that thing that people always say on the back cover reviews of books like 'i read the last page. then i turned it over and read it again'? i used to think that was bs. then i did it :)

I don't even own a book

then i turned it over and read it again'? i used to think that was bs. then i did it :)

i did this exactly once. with this, lol