I just mentioned it in another thread and I realised that it's more than just that one book - China Mieville - UnLunDun. I really did enjoy reading it, I thought it was a great story and the plots all worked and some of the imagery he stuffed into my head was just amazing, but... I most likely won't re-read it.

Christopher Moore books are much the same way. I laughed so much, I had my brain warped by his convoluted plot lines and I really enjoyed each book, but I don't want to re-read them, except maybe The Gospel According to Biff.

Jasper Fforde, either series, Thursday Next or the Nursery Crime stuff.

Usually I re-read books like people would re-watch favourite movies, so this is an odd habit for me. And if we've discussed this before and I'm being redundant somehow, sorry.

truthfully, most of them.

there are not enough hours in the day to read/watch/talk to everything/one i want to so unless i need comfort reading, i'm gonna go for something new.

i do like the odd bit re-reading, but its not a luxury i take advantage of when there are new things to explore and find out and learn.

Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is a fun ride, the first and only time. You get a little more mileage out of his other books, but they're still the kind you skim through for the good bits, not the kind you fall into all over again.

I guess I agree with UnLunDun, that's the one Mieville book I've only read once.

I was actually thinking of rereading Cyptonomicon this summer because i liked it so much.

I would say most of the stuff by Umberto Eco I've read. I love it, but it's a lot of work to get though it.

That's funny, Maeve. I reread Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde constantly.

I haven't ever reread any Robertson Davies. I liked him, but not enough to reread. I have one of his sitting on the bookshelf that I've started about three times and haven't even finished. I liked others of his more.

Thomas Covenant series.

Sunshine, Robin McKinley

Ticktock by Dean Koontz. Pretty mediocre, yet entertaining, and it only took me a few days. However it didn't leave me with enough confidence in Koontz to pick up another one of his.

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King. Okay, but not very satisfying, and very dull. However the read was mercifully brief. The characters involved (Jake Chambers, Roland, the man in black *cough* *cough* Randall Flagg *cough*) were sketches of their later portrayals. It feels so much more disjointed in comparison to the second. The ending was probably the best part in the book. Chances are, I may reread the series, so although this is my least favorite of everything named, it's probably the most likely to be picked up again.

Misery by Stephen King. Easily my favorite book that I've listed here. Just got a bit boring towards the end. Lost the suspence. 4/5, but not something I'd try to go through again.

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Most of them, I rarely reread books, there are so many books out there and I read less than a hundred a year, give me another 30 years and that's less than three thousand

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Originally posted by Maeve:
I just mentioned it in another thread and I realised that it's more than just that one book - China Mieville - UnLunDun. I really did enjoy reading it, I thought it was a great story and the plots all worked and some of the imagery he stuffed into my head was just amazing, but... I most likely won't re-read it.

I've always wanted to pick up something by Mieville, but everytime I do I can't get into it. He's somebody who I need to crack open a dictionary for (not that that's neccessarily a bad thing; knowledge is power). Like Lovecraft. Except I handled Lovecraft better. Maybe I should have picked up Perdido Street Station before its sequel. That may have helped with my understanding.
Not to insult him. In fact, the reason I became interested in him was because of an excellent introduction to At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft) that he wrote.

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Uhm, possibly the Northern Lights trilogy.

I remember absolutely ADORING it the first time I read it, a few years back, but I tried picking it up recently and just couldn't get into it.

Although, perhaps it might make good bathtime reading. When there's nothing to interrupt and you can concentrate on it more. -ponder-

I think I'd need to take a vacation from Mieville before coming back to him, in any context. Although I reread Looking For Jake often enough, but short stories I can almost always reread and reenjoy.

I don't have any books I can say I'd never reread. Anything I finish that survives the trip is something I'd either consider rereading or is recycled. Or, in one particularly memorable case, thrown at the bathroom wall so hard the spine broke and pages fell like leaves. And it was a slim mass market.

I've read Cryptonomicon at least 3 times now, and I'd re-read Mieville's books too. I definitely wouldn't read Moore's books again, although I enjoyed them a lot (in fact, I think I gave them to the library). I also probably wouldn't read Fforde's books more than once (those I borrowed from said library).

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Or, in one particularly memorable case, thrown at the bathroom wall so hard the spine broke and pages fell like leaves. And it was a slim mass market.

whoa! what book was that, pray tell?

I'm guessing here, but - The DaVinci Code??

No, it was a Buffy novel. An absolutely terrible Buffy novel.

I did throw The DaVinci Code but either the wall was farther away or I didn't throw it as hard.

Maeve, I had the same reaction to UnLunDun. It was clever, but I found it emotionally pretty sterile. I probably would only re-read it if I came back to it after a considerable amount of time had passed - enough to forget the clever bits so that I'd feel that "aha!" moment aagin when they came up.

- Cho