From Way, Way Back in Your Reading Life

I didn't realize Starship Troopers was from the late 50s until recently. I really need to give that one another read.
 
Just read Chesterton's The Flying Inn for the second time, the first time having been almost 50 years ago. It is inferior to The Man Who Was Thursday, Manalive, and The Ball and the Cross, each of which I have already read at least twice. Chesterton's health broke down after he wrote Flying Inn.
 
Extollager said:
Herewith, a thread where people can write about books that they are rereading, many years after having first read them.
How about others here? Have you recently reread something that goes back a long way for you?
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The idea, let me remind folks, is that you are reading again something you read a long time ago for you. My reading life goes back over 55 years, so, for me, reading again a book I first read 20 years ago is not from way, way back, but for someone whose reading life goes back to 30 years, 20 years might seem like a long time. You don't need to indicate how old you are or how old you were when you first became a reader of adult books.
Right now I'm rereading The Lord of the Rings, first read about 57 years ago. For sure this was the first really long book I had ever read.
 
Extollager said:
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Right now I'm rereading The Lord of the Rings, first read about 57 years ago. For sure this was the first really long book I had ever read.
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I read that some time in the 80s.

After I finished it I thought, "Why did I read that." Never thought about reading it again.
 
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