Do you read books more than once?
>>8265158
Depends, some things benefit from a reread (either to catch details and nuances you didn't see the first time, or just because it was good enough to want to experience again), others you can finish and be okay with having finished.
>>8265165
Yeah, depends on the book. Most of the time, I just read certain chapters that left an impression.
I've probably read The Alchemist at least 6 or 7 times.
Deal with it, h8rs
A great book *requires* that you read it more than once, and has more to say on each successive reading.
If you can read a book once and say you "got" it, it was trash.
the only thing you will get from reading a book once is the mental hug of being able to say you read it
and perhaps a (low) passing mark on a paper
if you don't read books more than once you're a pleb or you're reading the wrong books, which makes you a pleb
You dont really know a book until you've read it at least three times
I read the books that I want to have read more than one more than once.
Or I read books more than once because I enjoyed reading them and would enjoy reading them again.
>>8265176
I'm sorry about that
>>8265158
I've actually never re-read a book, but I look forward to re-reading several, Mrs. Dalloway and Jane Eyre come to mind.
>>8265158
I make an effort to but it's difficult justifying spending the next few weeks reading something you already know about when you could be reading something new.
>>8265158
More than once in my life I have found myself reading a book, yes.
>>8265158
Duh?
I've just in the last two years gotten into literary fiction, so I've been pretty much reading through important works. The ones I plan reading again are the ones that left a pretty big impression on me, also because rereading them as a more experienced reader should be a good exercise. What I plan to reread includes Lolita, the Sound and the Fury, Housekeeping and Gilead, Infinite Jest, the majority of Alice Munro, Ironweed and a fuckload of others.
