Will you reread?

I'll re-read the newer Pratchetts, i.e, Thud!, Going Postal and the Tiffany books.
If I have a partucularly hormonal couple of weeks at some point, it'll vbe Earth's children by Auel!
Empire by Wurtz & Feist.

who am I trying to kid? start on left saide of shelf and work through!
apologie for typos have 4month old baby holding fingers...
 
I re-read LOTR every year as soon as summer holidays start - it is a kind of tradition. :D
 
It's rare that I find a book that I can re-read from cover to cover, but there are a few that do that to me. Sphere is definitely at the top of the list. I've probably read that about three or four times. The movie just didn't do the book justice.
 
I was gonna ask if that was asscoiated with the film.

Never read the book but the film was god aweful I thought.

Maybe the book is better.
 
I'll re-read all the HP books before Deathly Hallows comes out of course. I'll probably re-read the Outlander books again in anticipation of the mass market paperback of the latest coming out too. I'm too far behind to reread the Malazan books as the next one comes out so not those probably. I used to read LOTR yearly until my omnibus copy fell apart. I've yet to rebuy it (there are so many new books you see). I don't forsee a lot of other re-reads since I have an extensive to read list and a pile of books sitting here staring at me. So many books, so little time. I find it funny that just a couple of years ago I was having trouble finding books to read! An excess of riches...
 
I hope to find time to re-read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I watch the movies quite often, but its been along time since I read the books.
 
Will be re-reading;

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly (Phillip K Dick)
Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum etc. - Edga Allan Poe)
Dagon and other Macabre Tales (HP Lovecraft)
 
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (Patricia McKillip) and Lyonesse (Jack Vance).

I don't reread them every single year or anything, but they're definitely the two books that I go back to most often.

Both of them have a fairy-tale-like quality that makes them timeless, I think.
 
This year, I'm going to reread one of my favourite sf books each month.

Jan: The Ophiuchi Hotline, John Varley
Feb: Undercover Aliens, AE van Vogt (actually, I plan to read The Mating Cry, a hard-to-find rewritten "adult" edition I managed to pick up on eBay)
Mar: Stations of the Tide, Michael Swanwick
Apr: Where Time Winds Blow, Robert Holdstock
May: Coelestis, Paul Park
Jun: Take Back Plenty, Colin Greenland
Jul: Kairos, Gwyneth Jones
Aug: Dahlgren, Samuel Delany
Sep: Aegypt, John Crowley
Oct: Dune, Frank Herbert

It'll be interesting to see if the list changes as a result of rereading the books...
 
I reread books all the time, and probably will continue to do so. The ones I've reread the most are Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series and the Belgariad/Malloreon by David Eddings. I'll probably reread them again this year, although I'd like to read Neil Gaiman/Yoshitaka Amano's The Dream Hunters and Koji Suzuki's Ring trilogy.
 
It's interesting. I used to reread all the time, but I hardly ever do anymore. I reread the Company novels by Kage Baker every once in awhile, and I'm getting ready to read Gone With the Wind soon for the first time in years (when I get the time and don't have so many first-reads waiting). I started re-reading Faye Kellerman's mystery/police procedureal series (the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus books) last year and got about halfway through the series before I gave it up.

I think it's just a matter of too many books, too little time.
 

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