Have you ever read a book more than once?

Question

What book? How many times have you read it?

Answer 1

Yes. The Giver. And Brian's Winter. I loved those books when I was a kid.

Answer 2

Well, I never expected to see such a question. I assume that you have not read a book more than once.
If that is the case I would say that something is wrong with you.
Well, trying to answer your question, yes, I have. What book ? Well, not counting the text books, I could mention Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Complete Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Ben Hur, The Sea Around Us, A Travel to the Moon, Don Camilo, The Ilyad, The Odyssey, The Bible, The Divine Comedy, The Cid, Modern Parables, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Montecristo, The Talisman, Burg Jargal, Han de Islandia, The Miserables, and some others

Answer 3

MANY series. Here's a few I'll never part with:

The Lord of the Rings (read it every year when I was a teen up to about age 30)
The Darkover Books by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Great to read in the summer.
The Syran novels by Ellen Anthony
Always good story telling and I'm waiting impatiently for the next one to come out.
Harry Potter books
The Warlock series by Christopher Stasheff
The Pern novels by Anne McCaffrey
The Camber books by Katherine Kurtz

Answer 4

I read "Dracula" once a year, usually in October, and I have done so for about 20 years.

Just before I read "Dracula", I read "Salem's Lot" by Stephen King as kind of a warm up.

I read "The Diary of A Young Girl" every year in December, leading up to Christmas. I only started that about 10 years ago, but I have read the book about 20 times.

For a long time, the first book I read in the new year was "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Anne Burns. I still read it yearly, but not necessarily in January. I have been doing that for about 15 years.

I read "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr at least once or twice a year because it's a fun read. I have probably read it at least 15 or so times.

I have read most of Dickens 3 or 4 times.

I have read all of Thomas Hardy's books 3 or 4 times.

I have read "Fortune's Rocks" by Anita Shreve at least 5 times.

You know, it would just be easier to say that I usually revisit every book I read at least once, but usually twice. The only books I read just one time are the ones that bore me.

Answer 5

There are a couple books I have really enjoyed more then once:
1. Flowers in the Attic series
2. Dictionary front to back!
3. Janet Evonavich series
4. Divinci Code
5. Lord of the Rings (once long ago, once about 6 onthes ago)
6. Hobit
7. Harry Potter

Answer 6

Yes, several, because I teach college English classes and must re-read the books I teach each semester so I know specific details to discuss. I seem to get something new out of it everytime. Some of the books I have read twice and liked even more the second time around:

"Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

However, I read "Wicked" by Grgory Maguire for a second time for my book club. I liked it the first time I read it and hated it the second time I read it. Go figure!

Answer 7

I couldn't even begin to tell you how many times I've read books over. My favorite books are like good friends. I turn to them time and again. I'll reread favorite passages anytime I'm in the mood, and once every year or two I'll go back and read them over from cover to cover.

I always like the quote from the Winona Ryder movie version of "Little Women": "Some books are so familiar reading them is like being home again,"

Answer 8

I have read The Lord of the Rings once a year, every year, since I first read it at age 15. I am 53 years old today. I have read parts of it more than that, and have listened to the word for word audio tapes three times. I have read The Hobbit and The Once and Future King almost as many times.

Answer 9

I've read the Famos Five, Secret Seven books about 30 times each, but that was when i was young, now a days i only read books once.

Answer 10

I have read Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut) a number of times... but now that I am in my 50s, I have here & there picked up a book I read 25, 30 years ago and re-read it to see how differently I understand it now. I did this with The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) and The Stranger (Camus).

Answer 11

All 7 chronicles of Narnia....repeatedly

All 6 Harry Potters......repeatedly

The first Septimus Heap......twice

Anne Rice's Mayfair Witch trilogy.....at least 2 or 3 times

When I was little, all the Ramona Quimby books and the rest of Beverly Cleary's....many times

Ditto for Roald Dahls books.......alot