Well, I hope you want to, sometime. But I can see why you wouldn't. After my stepdad left us, the Simpsons made me too sad. It was so Our Thing. And there still are a few where the pleasure is kind of muted.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Aug 18, 2010 10:15:16 am PDT #12008 of 28342
Always Anti-fascist!
Ginger - Aug 18, 2010 11:07:52 am PDT #12009 of 28342
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
C.S. Lewis wrote that there are some books that we read breathlessly the first time, because the story is so compelling that we need to know what happened. Once you know what happened, you can read the book again to appreciate the writing and the characters. A great book can be read many times and each time the reader will get something new from it.
I tend to reread when I'm under stress, but I also frequently reread a whole series when a new book comes out. (I'm currently contemplating a Miles reread before the new Bujold.)
I've probably read Little Women, Eight Cousins and An Old-Fashioned Girl 20 times.
Calli - Aug 18, 2010 11:55:12 am PDT #12010 of 28342
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Some books I'll try to reread because I didn't care for them the first time, but I heard good things about them from people whose taste I respect. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an author whose books worked for me much better the second time around. Maybe the same will happen with Moby Dick.
Atropa - Aug 18, 2010 12:30:29 pm PDT #12011 of 28342
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
If I want to re-read something, my brain will generally not latch on to something new. I can't work up any interest in something new that I previously really wanted to read, *if* I'm currently wanting to re-read something. I can't explain it. My brain wants what it wants.
Good lord, Teppy and I really are sisters or something. I have a stack of new books to read right now. Am I reading any of them? No. I am re-reading The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, because my brain wants florid, overwrought vampire comfort food.
Laga - Aug 18, 2010 2:04:11 pm PDT #12012 of 28342
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Calli, if my copy of Moby Dick hadn't had all those notes and explanations in the back... I probably would have made it through but I wouldn't have enjoyed it half as much so I highly recommend finding a copy with lots of notes. I had two bookmarks going most of the time, one was where I was at in the text and the next was the page that had the next notation.
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2010 4:04:10 pm PDT #12013 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
No. I am re-reading The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, because my brain wants florid, overwrought vampire comfort food.
Ahahahahaha!!! I rejected Queen of the Damned last night in favor of...
The Witching Hour. Trufax.
Amy - Aug 18, 2010 4:08:04 pm PDT #12014 of 28342
Because books.
Oh god, I love The Witching Hour. It's my favorite Anne Rice. And it's been packed in a box in the garage for five years now. I almost broke and picked up a used copy two different times.
Atropa - Aug 18, 2010 4:31:22 pm PDT #12015 of 28342
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I nearly grabbed The Witching Hour for bathttime last night.
FEAR THE TEPPY-JILLI MIND MELD. FEAR US.
Amy - Aug 18, 2010 4:41:05 pm PDT #12016 of 28342
Because books.
I do, I do!
sarameg - Aug 18, 2010 5:00:35 pm PDT #12017 of 28342
dcp, my childhood involved my dad reading the Hobbit through the whole LotR trilogy to me over breakfast starting in kinder. I've never touched the books since, but I LOVED it. I've only seen the first movie, because while it got some things right, I didn't want it to displace any of my memories/mental visuals of what my dad's voice reading it created. Gollum wasn't quite right, and I still resent that.
eta: My mom would read me Laura Ingalls Wilder to me at night during the same period. I never watched the show. Seems to be a pattern.
No idea my first book, nor when I started reading, will have to ask my mom. We had/have tons of books. I only found out recently my mother HATED Dr. Seuss and suffered mightily through our love of them, but sees his value. They just make her a little bored out of her gourd.