constant re-reading

[indianatrekker26]

This is kinda a companion thread to my "unfinished reading" thread i had made.
Own any books that you read over and over?
For instance, of all the trek series, TNG is my absolute favorite. And I'm always going back and re-reading all the old numbered TNG books every few times a year. To me, its like watching an episode of TNG that i've seen many times.

 

[ryan123450]

I wish so badly to have time to go back and re-read stuff. I only read about 3 books a month so my huge 'to-read' list would never get smaller if I didn't keep plunging headlong into it. Some year I may plan on spending the whole year going back and re-reading my favorite books.

 

[Smitty]

I wish so badly to have time to go back and re-read stuff. I only read about 3 books a month so my huge 'to-read' list would never get smaller if I didn't keep plunging headlong into it. Some year I may plan on spending the whole year going back and re-reading my favorite books.

3 in one month..... I am so envious. I can do 3 in a month but that requires 1 or two of them to be audiobooks. Something not supported properly in the Trek world.

 

[Fer]

I was able to get three books in per month last year, but I had to be ridiculously rigid about it... make sure I read x number of pages per day, etc. I decided to let all that go this year and have been managing more like one book every two weeks or so.

So yeah, as much as I'd love to reread some books, it's just not an option for me either.

But if I did have time, I think the ones on the top of my reread list would be the Destiny trilogy, A Singular Destiny, and Imzadi. And I'd love to go back and reread all of New Frontier from the beginning.

 

[ryan123450]

I'd love to reread the complete works of JRR Tolkien, the Destiny trilogy, Burning Dreams, The Good That Men Do, The Art of the Impossible, Full Circle, Unworthy, the Darth Bane trilogy, and the prequel novel to Episode I.

 

[nickyboy]

I have re-read New Frontier 1-4 al least 7-8 times. I have re-read Vanguard 1-4 3 times. I have too many books I want to read to be able to re-read alot of books. I am planning to re-read all of the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson in the next few Months.

 

[Stoek]

Spock's World, Articles Of The Federation, A Singular Destiny, and now Children Of The Storm has been added to the list.

 

[Stevil2001]

I don't reread nothing. Heck, as far as Trek books go, I barely even manage first reads anymore... I'm back in August 2010 still, I think.

 

[bfollowell]

I wish so badly to have time to go back and re-read stuff. I only read about 3 books a month so my huge 'to-read' list would never get smaller if I didn't keep plunging headlong into it. Some year I may plan on spending the whole year going back and re-reading my favorite books.

I with Ryan on this one. Life is far too short and there are far too many good books out there to keep reading the same ones over and over.

Don't get me wrong. I've re-read a couple of books over the years but they're very few and far between. Between my wife, kids and work, I just have far too much going on in my life to spend what little reading time I get reading through something I've already read before. Maybe, if I read faster or just had tons of free time, but since I don't...

- Byron

 

[captcalhoun]

i frequently re-read stuff. one i've re-read a lot is Prime Directive.

 

[aaon80]

I reread "Spock's World" probably once every month or so, it is "comfort reading" for me. I can pick it up, open it to any page, and read. I also love "The Romulan Way," one of my all-time favorite books. "Ex Machina" also holds a permanant place on my iPhone and Kindle, and I reread that once every couple months.

 

[Paris]

I love to re-read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. For some reason I read it every time i take a plane. I also love re-reading Articles of the Federation and Full Circle..

 

[FatherRob]

Other than regularlly reading my Bible, Liturgy book, Daily Prayer book, and other frequent religious material:

TREK
- My Enemy, My Ally (Annual)
- Killing Time (Bi-Annual)

NON-TREK SCI-FI
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Annual) *
- The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (Annual) *
- The Songs of Distant Earth (Bi-Annual)

In the interests of accuracy, I must note the two books I have asterisked above I actually have on unabriged audio, and I listen to them annually, during the summer. Just finished 2001 yesterday, and started in on Clarke's stories today while on the car ride in to work.

I do have to say, concerning the last two, that I don't know what I'll do when I can no longer buy a car with a cassette player. I guess I'll have to reinvest on them in CD format, but geesh...

Rob+

 

[Mage]

Shees, I've re-read so many books, both Trek and non-Trek, I couldn't tell you where to begin.

But I do really want to re-read Destiny soon, before I dive into Full Circle/Unworthy/Children Of The Storm. Perhaps re-read the first 4 New Frontier novels, when it was still pretty good.
But then again, I still have a lot to read for the first time, including two of the Section 31 novels, all six Lost Era novels, Precipice, Declassified, Seize The Fire, the three VOY novels I mentioned early and about 20 novels I have on my wishlist at bol.com which I still have to order. And my vacation is over in 4 days.

 

[neogothboy74]

I think I've read DS9's "A Stitch in Time" 4 times. I honestly don't think I've reread any of the others.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

Haven't done much rereading lately. I did take the Double Helix books with me along with some non-Trek books when I was staying away from home for a while a few years ago and didn't plan to spend a lot of time buying new books. when my collection was smaller, there were Trek books I read 3 or 4 times over the years. I happen to be a fast reader though, if I wanted to I could read two novels in a week.

 

[zarkon]

Federation (judith and garfield reeves stevens)
Spocks World (Diane Duane)
The Final Reflection(John Ford)

I'll tend to reread those every year at the very least.

 

[Steve Roby]

I've read 57 books so far this year, excluding graphic novels, and not one was a reread. There are a few things I'd like to reread but very few of them would be Star Trek books. (For example, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, the dozen or so Patrick O'Brian novels I read before my Aubrey and Maturin binge was derailed, etc). I've got way too many books that I haven't read once yet to spend time on stuff I've already read.

If I knew I had time to read absolutely everything I wanted, though, I might be tempted to reread the DS9 relaunch and Vanguard, for a start.

 

[JD]

For a long time I would reread the books (or at least as many of them as I could) in a series before the next entry came out, but now I have so many books to read that I haven't bothered rereading anything in a long time.

 

[Mysterion]

I find myself revisiting a lot of Diane Duane's stuff fairly regularly, especially The Wounded Sky. Vonda McIntyre's The Entropy Effect and Peter Morwood's Rules of Engagement (very under-rated and over-looked, IMO) also get visits on a routine basis.