I've read this book once and that once was quite enough

[Rodders]

I think that most books are one read and done and the rarity is for rereads.

 

[ablackenedrose]

House of Leaves was like that for me. I respect what the book was trying to do (and I think it even succeeded), but I also found reading it a bit of an ordeal (a captivating ordeal, but an ordeal nonetheless). No desire to pick it up again.

 

[Elvraie]

where do you live? I live near Boston and now a while I would see copies everywhere, like spam but in physical form. everywhere. one even landed in the free books shelf of the building where you live. he also came out with a second novel, with a CD of music accompanying it, that also ended up in the free books shelf.

There is a copy on the shelf 'for sale' in front of me, I'm working in an English University Library and around 2019 we had a few copies of this book given to the library. It has never been very popular.

 

[Badgersaurus]

I'm also in the camp of not rereading books often (or ever in most cases) but I found The Chrysalids by John Wyndham to be dreadfully boring, even though it's setting and speculative elements should be right up my alley.
I found Death of A Salesman to be terrifically uninteresting. It's not a case of me disliking reading plays (I love reading Shakespeare!) but the material itself, I just found it a slog to get through... But it's one of those things I'm glad I've read to understand it's influence and so on. I can't say I ever want to read it again or see it performed though.

 

[Toby Frost]

I really liked The Chrysalids, but I was surprised how YA-ish it felt the last time I read it.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I really liked The Chrysalids, but I was surprised how YA-ish it felt the last time I read it.

Me too. There's thread whereabouts in which I try convince the world it a great, hidden in plain sight, gay YA novel.

Books I never want read again though I am glad I did. Just about every book by Louis Debernier (I know I have spelled that wrong but it's 4am). I read a bunch of his earlier books up to Captain Correlli's Mandolin, The War of Don Somebodies Underwear...? Riveting reading. I was shredded by the end of every one. The death of one character still upsets me to think about 20+years later.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Remembered another. Hammer Wives by some twat whose name I can't remember and who I won't give the time to look up. part of a short lived exploration of the 'Bizzaro' genre ( aka ' adolescent wank'.)