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Have you ever read a book more than once?
#11
Quote:Originally posted by Mark
Ja Groundhog Day :p


:haha:

To answer the original question, I often reread books, even Agatha Christie...
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#12
Quote:Originally posted by Jangar
:haha:

To answer the original question, I often reread books, even Agatha Christie...

O gonna Piet Jangar, must I send you some new books dear friend???????


I agree though about Catcher in the Rye, it was after all a book that sort of started the "teenage revolution"......... but like the books of John Irving (World according to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, etc)....one has to read some more than once to really grasp the true meaning and/ or understanding.
Like The Foutain Head.............I do not know to this day whether I agree or disagee....... or even like the book!


Wink
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#13
Quote:Originally posted by Joan
O gonna Piet Jangar, must I send you some new books dear friend???????


I agree though about Catcher in the Rye, it was after all a book that sort of started the "teenage revolution"......... but like the books of John Irving (World according to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, etc)....one has to read some more than once to really grasp the true meaning and/ or understanding.
Like The Foutain Head.............I do not know to this day whether I agree or disagee....... or even like the book!


Wink


Maybe I should've mentioned that it is only good books I reread Wink
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#14
Quote:Originally posted by Jangar
Maybe I should've mentioned that it is only good books I reread Wink
I know Jangar......

How else, you would not be able to find anything , would you......
btw, have you tidied that room yet???????




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#15
[QUOTEbut like the books of John Irving (World according to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, etc[/B][/QUOTE]

World According to Garp. One of my best books ever!! Read it first when I was about 12, and I have read it twice since then. Could not make myself watchthe movie, though. Thought it would ruin the book for me.Big Grin
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
--Mahatma Gandhi
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#16
Another book I dearly love and have read twice now, is: "Roots", by Alex Haley.

I battled for years to get a copy, as it is out of print. My stepmom knew I loved it, and found a secondhand copy for me one year. One of my best pressies ever. What a stunning book!
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
--Mahatma Gandhi
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#17
I regularly reread books. If there's a gap of several years between each read, you don't remember all the details. My favourite book, which I've probably read 3 times is "The Mists of Avalon" by Marion Bradley.
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#18
Quote:Originally posted by Joan
I know Jangar......

How else, you would not be able to find anything , would you......
btw, have you tidied that room yet???????




:o


Still busy... LOL Threw away a few kg's of old bills and the like on Thursday, relegated a few books to the basement Sad so now the room is liveable.... Just have to sort out the boxes of 4 track tapes as well as connect the old casette player to the comp so that I can convert those classics to digital and hang my bokkie on the wall and and and and the list goes on... LOL

And as long as I can find the trivia questions everyone is happy Big Grin
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#19
Saints, by Orson Scott Card, is a book I thumb through whenever I need a bit of a spiritual lift.

Every book of Terry Pratchett and Anne McCaffrey has been read at least 3 times, usually a great deal more. For sheer escapism alone.

I love Lawrence G. Green books, and read one of his whenever I am feeling homesick and need to recapture something of the magic of my youth. The Africa he writes about is the Africa of adventure and mystery, exactly the kind of place I dreamt of as a kid.

There are others too that get read time and again, but the above is what I return to most frequently.
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