Book you've reread over and over OR Book you stopped reading and never finished

[Anonymous]

In either case, why?

[Anonymous]

I've discarded so many books, for being boring, badly written, a rehash of an earlier book, too violent, too sexy, you name it.

I've reread books for being beautifully written and completely engrossing.

Are you wanting us to write you a list here?

[Anonymous]

Some books just lose me. I've learned that putting it down is totally fine! It doesn't matter if you DNF. The first one that jumped to my mind was Gone Girl. I hated the first 50 pages so I just stopped reading and put it in the little free library.

I don't usually re-read books. I think because there is always something new I'd like to explore.

[Anonymous]

Re-Read: One Day by David Nicholls. It's a comfort read for me. I enjoy a friends-to-lovers trope and the dialogue and enduring friendship in this one just does it for me. It lives in the sweet spot between literary fiction and beach read (I mean that as a compliment). I'm not particularly romantic or a "soul mates" die-hard but this makes me believe.

DNF: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. The writing and gentle storytelling were lovely but I just didn't care very much. I couldn't put down Bel Canto or Commonwealth and even though I didn't like the characters in The Dutch House I wanted to see it through. I was so bored with Tom Lake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've discarded so many books, for being boring, badly written, a rehash of an earlier book, too violent, too sexy, you name it.

I've reread books for being beautifully written and completely engrossing.

Are you wanting us to write you a list here?

This life is too short. I ditched it if it doesn't keep my interest or becomes a chore to read and no longer fun.

[Anonymous]

Read Jane Eyre a few times. It’s just so good.

Read half of Atlas Shrugged twice. It’s not good.

[Anonymous]

Gentleman in Moscow. Everyone said it so good but I can't get through it.

[Anonymous]

I could not finish Life after Life by Kate Atkinson. I got stuck at the reliving of the Spanish Flu. It just became so repetitive.

I generally do not reread - ther are so many books to READ there's little time for rereading.

But just in the past few months I realized I was really enjoying a detective/mystery series (Everyone in my Family has killed someone is the first book) and yet I had a nagging sense I was missing something. So I went back and reread them all and enjoyed them (for book 2 I had genuinely forgotten who the murderer was!). They are just sort of convoluted situations with a large cast of side characters.

Then my book club chose North Woods by Daniel Mason which I had read a year before and LOVED. I wasn't going to reread, but then someone else who had already read it said something like I just was blown awasy by the next to last chapter, which I didn't remember at all so I did a rereading and picked up so much more from it the second time around.

This is telling me I'm getting older and things aren't pentrating as much as they used to? Is this my signs of aging? (I"m 55 and read a lot - 80-100 books a year. i chose to believe I just have too much crammed in).

I SO enjoyed rereading classics when my kids were young Charlotte's Web is amazing. The Narnia books. The Hobbit (starting about age 11 I reread The Hobbit every few years into my 20s).

I read and just sort of slogged through the Lord of the rings as a young teenager, so I'm thinknig of rereading them.

I've also been casually picking up Agatha Christie books - some I've read before and some I haven't - and enjoying them whether I recognize/remember them or not.

[Anonymous]

I've reread Women Who Run With the Wolves (it's nonfiction) multiple times. It's like coming home for a feminist who loves literature and Jung/Joseph Campbell.

I can't get through Ulysses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gentleman in Moscow. Everyone said it so good but I can't get through it.

I read the whole thing, and appreciated what he did with the plot, but I do not consider it "good," let alone "so good." At all. And I applaud anyone who puts it down.

[Anonymous]

Still Alice is a book I reread until I had to get rid of it. So scary yet beautiful.

[Anonymous]

I've reread Jane Austin plus a bunch of children's literature with kids. Like the poster above, I also couldn't finish Tom Lake. Also, didn't finish The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gentleman in Moscow. Everyone said it so good but I can't get through it.

I DNF this at 65%. I can usually tell right away if I want to DNF but I was on vacation and didn't have another book. I thought, it's so popular, I must be missing something! But once I got home, I couldn't do it anymore. I had to accept defeat. Which is too bad because I LOVED The Lincoln Highway.

[Anonymous]

There's a whole DNF thread on here. Are you interested in that? That's really different from the repeat read question.

[Anonymous]

Reread A Tree Grows in Brooklyn every 8 years or so. Funny how you identify with different characters as you age.

Jane Eyre - have read this multiple times

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder - nostalgic read

Anything Bill Bryson

DNF - The Book Thief!