/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20367140]

What book have you reread the most and why?

[Anonymous No.20367337]

Despite being a meme read GR five times. Always something new to discover.

[Anonymous No.20367351]

Gotta be Jurassic Park, even though last time I read it was like at least 20 years ago.

[Anonymous No.20367377]

>>20367140
Nietzsche stuff.

I don't know what he's talking about most of the time only for me to make sense of it months or years later.

Truly his wisdom is ripe but I am not yet ripe for his widom

[Anonymous No.20367378]

>>20367140
The Hobbit is the only book I've ever read twice. There are too many books I haven't read to waste time rereading.

[Anonymous No.20367386]

>>20367140
Invisible Cities
>because it’s a therapeutic manual disguised as a novella

[Anonymous No.20367490]

Ender's saga
My favorite books, have probably read them 7 times since I'm 10. I find a new meaning in it every time, they're just beautiful

[Anonymous No.20367508]

>>20367377
>you will endure necessity and you WILL love it

[Anonymous No.20367520]

>>20367140
I guess at this point it would be both The Extraordinary Adventures and The Confessions of Arsene Lupin, because I would check some facts and because it's a really fun read.

[Anonymous No.20367533]

Lord of the Rings
I've read it 6 times so far
Next would be The Hobbit about 3-4 times
Then A Hero of Our Time, Notes from the Underground, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The Trial, Pride and Prejudice and the Sun also rises 3 times
There's probably a lot that I've re-read twice but the biggest one is the ASOIAF books and Harry Potter
t. late millennial

[Anonymous No.20367541]

Ronia, the robbers daughter

[Anonymous No.20367596]

>>20367140
Probably Richard Brautigan - So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away. We can not escape our pasts and it has a real knack for putting things into perspective, and it only takes a few hours to read.

[Anonymous No.20367656]

>>20367351
Damn you're old lol

[Anonymous No.20367662]

Probably In Our Time.
Though I usually skip My Old Man

[Anonymous No.20367665]

>>20367656
I was 8 the first time I read it.
There was a bunch of shit I didn't understand, like all those "iterations" pages and a whole lot of genetics. Action scenes were pretty cool and scary though.

[Anonymous No.20367744]

Finished Blood Meridian and I am now starting it over and making notes to translate Spanish text.

[Anonymous No.20368387]

>>20367140
I reread The Sun Also Rises every year during the transition from spring to summer.
I just really love that novel, when I first read it it was like the book I'd been searching for my whole life.

[× I V R I V S × !!GgBWHLRiayD No.20368454]

>>20367140


I seldom rewatch, much less reread, anything; I only do so with more complex, and/or especially relevatory, things, and/or if I want to better remember something that I had watched/read a long time ago.

Everything has its original season, including one's personal experience; with revolution, you merely further interiorize —resurface, and reestablish— what you have already envolved/traversed, generally not needing to redo so —the seed is sown; the deed is done.

[Anonymous No.20369133]

>>20367490
I've read the first book around four times. The sequel annoyed me off so much I ripped it up and tossed it in case I was tempted to read it again.

[Anonymous No.20369198]

>>20367140
None, since I don’t read to begin with.

[Anonymous No.20369215]

>>20367140
I don't reread, let alone, read books.

[Anonymous No.20369228]

>>20367140
Flowers for Algernon. I just find it easy to read and it makes me tear up every time.

[Anonymous No.20369365]

>>20367140
Probably Clive Barkers "Imajica"
I read the german translation twice or trice many years ago and very recently another time but this time the original english version.

Same goes for "Lords Of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground". First I read the german version and some years later the english original.

And very recently I reread some book that I read in my childhood years way back in east germany. "Die Akademie des Meisters Klex" (english title "Academy of Mr. Kleks") by the polish Autor Jan Brzechwa.

But I can't quite remember reading other books more than once.

[Anonymous No.20369405]

I regularly re-read books, but one time I only had a copy of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe to read for at least six months, so that might tip the scales a bit. I don't even like Poe that much.

[Anonymous No.20369575]

I just tear pages from books as I read them. This way, the experience of reading it remains pristine and pure, and it helps train my memory.

[Anonymous No.20369691]

>>20369575
lying is bad anon!!!!!

[Anonymous No.20369901]

>>20367533
Based. I also have reread the lotr about 6 or 7 times. I used to read it every year in February as one of my cringe traditions

[Anonymous No.20369906]

>>20367140
Probably a toss up between Siddhartha and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[Anonymous No.20369975]

did you know that you can troll the jannies by reporting post that don't break any rules, if they decide to get a power trip and unlawfully ban you, you can bring balance to the force

[Anonymous No.20369979]

>>20367378
>waste time rereading
you know that reading a book once is the experiential equivalent of watching a jpeg load on a dialup computer right? rereading is the only way to have real appreciation of the book's aesthetic

[Anonymous No.20370041]

>>20367140
>What book have you reread the most
asterix in switzerland
>and why?
because i thought it was great when i read it as a kid and i still think it's great now

[Anonymous No.20370049]

>>20369405
Dude what happened to the rest of your books? Were you in prison or something lol

[Anonymous No.20370063]

The Sound and The Fury. 3 or 4 times, it really rewards you on every re-read.
That's as an adult, as a kid I must've read the first 4 Harry Potter books at least 10 times each, then I grew out of it and never finished the series.

[Anonymous No.20370090]

>>20367140
I’ve reread Portrait of the Artist 6 times. Most of those were for courses at university where the book kept cropping up. Heart of Darkness for the same reason. 4 times or so.
Otherwise The Recognitions and Moby-Dick at 3 times each.

[Anonymous No.20370117]

I have read only one book in my life: In Search of Lost Time. Once I finish Time Regained I start again with Swann's Way. Again and again.

[Anonymous No.20370131]

This one because idk I just really like it.

[Anonymous No.20370158]

>>20369979
How long should I wait to reread a book?

[Anonymous No.20370170]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is the only book I've ever reread. It captivated my imagination the 5th grade and I'll come back to it every 6 or so years.

[Anonymous No.20370220]

>>20370131
>Dafydd ab Hugh
>Brad Linaweaver
Come on, these people cannot exist.

[Anonymous No.20370226]

Starship Troopers, like 4 times i guess

[Anonymous No.20370227]

>>20370220
>Dafydd ab Hugh is an author whose novelette, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" in Asimov's Science Fiction, was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1990.

[Anonymous No.20370250]

>>20370227

[Anonymous No.20370344]

>>20370158
"Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one
can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And
I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously
moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work
upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about,
this stands between us and artistic appreciation. When we look at a painting we do not have to
move our eyes in a special way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and
development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting. In
reading a book, we must have time to acquaint ourselves with it. We have no physical organ (as
we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and then can enjoy its
details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we
do towards a painting. However, let us not confuse the physical eye, that monstrous masterpiece of evolution, with the mind, an even more monstrous achievement. A book, no matter what it is — a work of fiction or a work of science (the boundary line between the two is not as clear as is generally believed) — a book of fiction appeals first of all to the mind. The mind, the brain, the top of the tingling spine, is, or should be, the only instrument used upon a book."
- Nabokov, Good Readers and Good Writers

It's not a question of when you should reread, it's a question of if. Do you like it enough to engage with it on a deeper level?

[Anonymous No.20370371]

>>20367140
I've read The Scottish Play probably more than anything. Then Hamlet.

[Anonymous No.20370401]

I've read the whole Wheel of Time series 5 times.
Go ahead and laugh.

[Anonymous No.20370482]

>>20370371
Why do people use metonyms? Do you think you're in some sort of secret club? Do you think it make it makes you look more knowledgeable? Do you think it makes you better than other people? I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.20370526]

>>20370482
He might be an actor. They're famously superstitious.

[Anonymous No.20370581]

>>20367140
Scripture, mostly a combination of Genesis, Matthew, Romans and Revelation

[Anonymous No.20370710]

>>20370401
Not going to laugh, but I am impressed that you could tolerate some of those middle books enough to read them five times. I don't know if I'll ever get around to reading the whole series again. Maybe one day. I was satisfied enough to complete it after taking ten years off.

[Anonymous No.20370719]

>>20367378
>It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
Donna Tart

[Anonymous No.20370867]

>>20367140

White Noise by Don Delillo has incredible sentences. I don't care about how long it takes to read a book, I like to stop and contemplate when I'm given interesting observations, things to weigh or examples of good writing. White Noise is Delillo trying to have a full on conversation with you about American life if your willing to engage with it.

[Anonymous No.20371010]

>>20369215
Kek

[Anonymous No.20371022]

War & Peace

I enjoy it immensely and like to finish off every year by rereading it.

[Anonymous No.20371142]

>>20367140
I've re-read the unbearable lightness of being twice I don't particularly know why, I guess because it's beautiful

[Anonymous No.20371326]

Plato's Republic also Sophist and Gorgias

[Anonymous No.20371737]

A Place of Dead Roads by Burroughs. Comfy surrealist Western

[Anonymous No.20371791]

>>20367140
Unironically Paradise lost at four times.

Perhaps it's actually some childhood book I've forgotten.

[Anonymous No.20371794]

>>20369901
Don't berate yourself like that, it's not something to be embarrassed about at all.

[Anonymous No.20371798]

>>20370170
I wish I'd read Verne as a child. If I ever have a boy—my God prevent that inception of another's suffering—I'd love to read him Verne as a bedtime story at age 5 or so.

[Anonymous No.20372135]

>>20370482
Triggered? It's just a nickname.

>>20370526
Yes, I actually did act in it back in high school, I played Banquo (if I could do it again though, I think I'd rather play one of the murderers or even the Porter - Banquo's only fun to play after he's dead).

[Anonymous No.20372185]

>>20371326
You should add Philebus to that list, Republic is my first and most read philosophy book though. Not sure how many times I've gone through it or just read certain books again.

[Anonymous No.20372191]

The sorrows of young werther because I need to be constantly reminded that my proclivity to fall for anyone and to think of love as some transcendental thing will only kill me eventually.

[Anonymous No.20372362]

>>20367533
Same, reading Lotr for the 4th time now

[Anonymous No.20372399]

House of Leaves. I love the experience of engaging with the gimmicks. I just read it for the fourth times ove a weekend last year. So much fun to forget about aspects of the book only to have them punch you on a re-reading.

[Anonymous No.20373085]

Sprawl trilogy by Gibson. The books have a certain aesthetic where the writing focuses less on the characters and plot and more on the creation of the environment. It's almost as if the universe is the plot and everyone is along for the ride. I enjoy early Gibson because of this signature immersive prose

[Anonymous No.20373385]

>>20368387
I see you're a man of culture as well, anon. I like to read it on cool windy days, there's a cafe near my house that has good Spanish brandy and coffee and it makes me feel like I'm at the festival with them.

[Anonymous No.20373649]

>>20367140

The bible