How many times have you read the same book?

i never read a book all over again.. i feel bored and i dont feel excited i already know what's next so i feel im just wasting my time rereading a book

I really don't having that much patience that i can read the same book again and again but still once i have read the harry potter for the four times in a row as that was very much interesting i can say. otherwise i don't really read the books either.

A really good book gets better every time you read it - no matter how many times.. I have read some parts of the Bible several times and some classic books - especially one with a lot of humor, Seven Brothers by the Finnish author Aleksis Kivi. Finnish was sort of new language for authors that time, and he had to invent some words so it is interesting also from that point of view. The book is probably translated to many languages...

I read Lord Of The Rings almost eight times as I was trying to make out how a single person can write abook so vast and with so much of imagination. The writer has a map, an elvish language created and infact created a completely different world.That is a fantastic book and it still amazes me that how can only one person imagine so much.

I have very seldom re-read the same book. Once I start reading a book and realize that I have read it already, I don't want to read it again, even if it is one that I particularly liked the first time. Besides, I have SOOOOOOO many that I want to read, that I don't have time to reread any!! I can't think of any that I have read over even at different times in my life, which is surprising since I have always been a reader.

yes there is one novel which i have read for over 10 times. jsut as you said,i find something new every time i read it.it's rather an affecting love novel not a world-famous one.

There are several books that I have read so many times that I have worn them out and had to buy a new copy! When I was younger I didn't have the money to buy new books--I had a $5 allowance. So I had to re-read my books since the library didn't carry the genre I liked (fantasy). I have re-read previous books in a series before reading the new installment (so I have read some of the books in the series 4 to 5 times). I also have my favorites over and over again because to me the characters feel like old friends I wouldn't be surprised if I have read some 10 times or more. Among these would be Flowers in the Attic (V.C. Andrews) and the Magic's Pawn trilogy (Mercedes Lackey). I keep all the books I like so I may read them again if I feel like it. Meaning I have quite a big library as I am an avid reader.

I have re-read HP books many times. Its just them which gives me a lot pleasure to be re-reading them! Its good that there are people who don't just read books, but they re-read too! lol. Yeah, HP books are such that you would just remember the plot and the main things,but when you re-read them, you happen to know so many things, again. At the first time - you read to know the plot of the fiction. When you read the second time, your primary attention is on the details of the plot...not just to know the plot. THis is the reason why we enjoy re-reading books! IMO.

I have re-read Patriot Games from Tom Clancy about a dozen times - never get tired of it

I always enjoy re-reading a good book, especially if its been a few years since I last read it - I've never been one of those types who can remember book passages or even movie scenes...we watched police acadamy the other day again for the first time, lol. I have a book I'm going to pick up from the library today called "Seven Spiritual Laws of Success" by Deepak Chopra...it was a very good book I remembered reading and now I want to read it again & share with my hubby. Another book i read until it was terrible dog-eared was "They Cage the Animals at Night." It is a sad and touching story about a kid going from one foster home to another & abuse and his only salvation is a stuffed dog. I don't know why I kept reading it so much!

I don't try to keep a book unless I like it well enough to reread. I have an extensive collection of mystery books by Christie, Francis, Braun and others and I reread them often. I am now reading through the Christies again. I have other books like "Thin Air" and "Too Many Ghosts" and a couple of Star Trek novels that I dig out once in awhile to go over again. It doesn't matter that I know the whole thing by heart, I still enjoy spending the time rereading them. Call me crazy, I guess.

I will be completely honest. I have NEVER read a book more than once. It's not that I haven't enjoyed a book enough to read it again, I just haven't. I guess since I am constantly adding books to my to-be-read pile, that I figure I have to read those books before I should re-read any old books. I always buy new books, whether it be from online, thrift stores, used book stores, yard sales, you name it, I get new books every week. I just don't think I have the time to re-read a book, when I have so many other's that I still want to read. Maybe one day, but I doubt it, since there are new books being published every day.

I've read and currently rereading Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird for the 15th time.

Yes, there are. "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham (quite depressing but I like the characters too much, I can relate to them at some point.) "The Harry Potter Series" - everytime I'm feeling particularly stressed and wish to escape into the world of Wizards. "Stardust" & "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman "Hannibal" & "Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris (I can't count the number of times I've re-read this one. "Speak" by L. Halse Anderson (it's technically for young adults but it has a certain significance to me.)

gosh I could re-read a novel 20 or 30 times and still love it each time. Each time I re-read a novel I always pick up on something different.

you know i love the stories.. from the Left Behind Series.. its sort of a fiction, but religious.. i guess a religious fiction book.. there is a name for it but can't remember it.. But those books are good.. I have read the 1st one bout 3 times.. once i read it all the way through in one day.. and its no short book..

The only books or series of books that I've re-read would be the Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and the Harry Potter series. They are my favorite and i find them interesting to read when I'm bored.

When I was little, I read "There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom" so many times the binding fell off. It was always my favorite! Since them, I've read very few books twice simply because there are others that I can't wait to get my hands on.

I read almost all of my books more than one time! Harry Potter books i have read them 5 or 6 times!! Every time i read a book i understand different things and meanings that the first time i have not notice them!

I like reading books, but I never plan to read one book twice. So I borrow books rather than buy them. I agree with you that re-reading a book will give you a different feeling depends on your mood and experience. Think throughly, I have not re-read a book. I have only re-read stories.