Are you a re-reader?

I like to repeat things I enjoyed. I've read the Harry Potter books many times (though partly because each of my three kids asked me to at least once). I've watched The Princess Bride numerous times. I couldn't wait to re-read the Anne of Green Gables series after I read it with my first daughter, and then my second daughter wasn't interested but then my son was

Probably the biggest example of how I like repeating things is that I'm very happy to have lived in the same house for 15 years. I like familiarity. (I do crave travel too though.)

 

Yes. There are some books/series that I love and will continue to read until the day I die. And there are those books that I re-read without knowing it - until I get to the end and think, Haven't I read this before? I guess it's a positive spin on having a horrible memory these days.

 

I re'read books when I am sick. And then it is usually old crime novels,like Agatha Christie, Dick Francis, Geoghette Heyer.
They are easy to read,and "comforting somehow.
Otherwise I don't, there are only so many hours in which to read, and sooo many books out there.
I do order the same food in Restaurants,and I don't want to move house.

 

OK i had to google/goodreads this Fever series - call me a commitment phobe but when i can see a series has more than like 4-5 novels from the outset, i just can't do it. (I'm also put off by the physical length of books (Harry potter is too thick for me to handle mentally and if i hadn't audiobooked Twilight I wouldnt have gone there either) - audio & ebooks have been a work around to some degree (especially if i just read a blurb and have no idea what the length of the book is going in; but if i've seen it in the bookshop or library and it's thicker than the space btwn my thumb and forefinger, that's my yardstick).
That said, I big loved the Gone series and i think i've read like 10 of the House of Night books (i thought they were both standalones or trilogies from what i saw at the library and the later was around Twilight time and vampires were the dystopia of today). I only kept plugging away because i naively thought each book released was going to be the last in that series, but you know like when they do movies and things become part 1 of 2 and the author says after the fact, that there was just so much more story to tell...blah blah - yep anyway.
I'm not really a re-reader. In fact, there are few things i hate more because i feel like there's soooo many books, so little time, y'know (not that i need to read them all but i have a long enough list). My kids are re-readers, uggh, that can be painful at bedtime- (Oh Great! This story for the 49th time?!).
It also feels like it's too much work, like in highschool having to re-read novels that many times so you know the characters/plot etc well enough to answer any essay Q in the exam.
I don't really rewatch movies either (except Disney ones with the kids) and i'm not a fan of change either but i don't feel that's related to re-reading (the activity and location of reading round the house etc doesn't change, just the story).

 

I like change. Renewal. I try new foods, rarely read the same book or watch the same movie more than once. This is our fourth house and hubby and I are thinking of one more move to downsize a bit.

 

I don't reread very often, mostly if there's a series which has had a big gap between books such as The Game of Thrones or The Wheel of Time series. One other book that I have read several times is Pride and Prejudice. I have so many books on hand though - ebooks and regular books, that I can't see me doing any rereading for a long time now!

 

I'm with Lindzee, I love change! Although there are two or three movies I will watch over and over, like Ghost and Flashdance. The only series I did re-read was the Left Behind series. Couldn't put those books down!!!

 

I have 8 zillion books on my to-read list, but I still re-read sometimes. Lol. The Bronze Horseman (3 FAT books) are great, especially the first one. I've also re-read the Passage and The Twelve a couple of times. Book 3 for that series is coming out in September I think and I'll probably re-read them again before I read the third one. I also LOVE the Clan of the Cave Bear books. Totally different, but I loved them and I re-read them all twice I think. They are all really FAT books.

I think I re-read a lot mostly because I can never remember all the details and I want a refresher.

 

I used to re read all the time - and am going back to some of my earlier e reader books to start them again. When I was younger - Anne of Green Gables was read every year (and I picked them up for close to nothing on my ereader so I have just finished them again). Harry Potter, of course as well as the Fantasy Series, Magician and The Belgariad as well are all re read mostly every two years.

 

No, I'm not much of a re-reader, but there are a few books I have re-read, maybe 3 or 4 times at the most. And several years go by before I want to read them again: The Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre, Jeeves and Wooster stories, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

I did re-read the Fever series while I was waiting for Iced.

Oh! I've re-read many of the Nero Wolf mysteries too. Those are quick and fun, and at one time I was trying to do a scrapbook project collecting fun Nero Wolf quotes.

 

I only re read if I've run out of new books to read. Which rarely happens now cos of my kindle I am funny with food though. My family say I have only 7 meals that I will eat in a restaurant. I used to try new food all the time. But now I am settled with my choice of 7. I mean that's quite a few really!

 

This made me laugh!

I am a Repeat-er.... except books. I love watching certain movies over and over. Even just for background noise when I'm scrapping... I'll look up occasionally, but it's mostly for noise. I will order many of the same foods at restaurants if I know I like it. Who wants to pay for food I don't know I like? Not me.

I think in my lifetime, lol, I've read a few books a second time. Kain & Abel (Jeffrey Archer), Tess and the D'Ubervilles, and I think Watership Downs - only because of schooling. lol! I will go back to read a summary of a book, to refresh my memory if discussing it, but not usually the whole book. I have started books, thinking I hadn't read them, and then 3 chapters in, I remember it all.

 

i re read a lot, harry potter, the iron druid , some other fantasy series, i read a lot and quickly so iwould spend even more if i didnt re read

 

I do. Re-reading is very comforting to me.

 

Totes. I re-read and I re-watch. People ask me why I still buy dvd's now that we have Netflix and online streaming but it's because some series and movies I just want to see when I want it. Right then and there when I want it. Same with books. So I own 2 copies of the Harry Potter series: the UK paper backs and the UK e-books. I read then in Dutch the first two times and then two times in English and now I'm on my e-book version. I re-read Tomorrow When The War Began every other year or so. Something that's good you should cherish.

 

I reread some things. It really depended on how my first reading went, and how much I loved the book.

Not counting Curious George or the Doreen Cronin or Mo Willams books which I have read so many times to my kid.

 

I so loved that series! If were a re-reader, that'd be one I'd re-read. I've seen the movie a few times and it was as good as the book to me