Comments on: Here We Go Round Again

By: Mr OK Jazz Tokyo

Mr OK Jazz Tokyo — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:44:52 +0000

I love re-reading. Especially when alone at dinner time, pick up something and open to any page, just dive in. Anything by Jose Saramago, early Salman Rushdie, Martin Cruz Smith, Soseki Natsume.

Like AB said, can’t stomach getting through books I find dull. Don’t think I made it past page 50 of “Brothers Karamazov”..those Russian novels take stamina I don’t have!

Loved “Master & Margarita” though, that’s also a wonderful “eating book”.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:14:29 +0000

6) See Nack, Bill: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/12/perform_a_concert_in_words.html

By: Matt Blankman

Matt Blankman — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:02:49 +0000

[4] Gatsby is one of the few novels I have re-read (and more than once). I can totally relate to abandoning books I’ve started, but Gatsby’s so damn good I come back to it every decade or so.

By: ColoYank

ColoYank — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:47:23 +0000

As a guy who started a book review blog last year at the behest of a publisher, I have not bothered to reread much in the last two-to-three years. I understand the urge completely, however. I have returned to “Persuasion” by Jane Austen (her best) – I keep it in reserve, as it were, as requests from the library become available. I feel a certain amount of pressure to work on new things because of the blog. But I am planning to go back to “Huckleberry Finn” and to “Plainsong” by Kent Haruf, and to others.

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By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:37:23 +0000

I have never had the discipline to finish a book I didn’t like (to be fair I often didn’t finish novels that I did like, too). So many of the books I was supposed to have read in high school and college and faked. So I’ve only read parts of “The Great Gatsby,” for instance. Never mind rereading I’d like to just read it one day.

By: ms october

ms october — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:30:20 +0000

i read more fiction than non-fiction.
i don’t think i have ever re-read a fiction book, but maybe i am forgetting some. i have re-read a handful of non-fiction books, mostly because i thought they were really interesting and felt i missed something the first time.
one of these days i would like to re-read some classics i read in high school or college but that i have either completely forgotten or didn’t understand/appreciate the first time.
but on the whole i am not into re-reading.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:17:43 +0000

I think it would be interesting to reread “The Catcher in the Rye” only because I have such a specific memory of where I was–on summer vacation at my grandparent’s home in Belgium–when I first read it.

By: Normando

Normando — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:15:49 +0000

I used to re-read “Naked Lunch” every year. (“I can think of two things wrong with that title!”) Each time I felt like I took more away from it, finding quality on re-reads where I initial only got some mixture of shock, titilation, and inspiration. I haven’t read it in nearly 20 years though – I should do so again. I tried to re-read “On the Road” during a road(ish) trip with my Dad, and I couldn’t get through it. I remember loving that book first time around too.