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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 41)
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Now reading:
And will read this soon:
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
reading Lolita for the third time |
ing pedo! :mad: |
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| couch-potato |
| At least Humbert Humbert has the decency to omit vulgar four letter words :o |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| I have only read Lolita twice. :o |
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| Meat187 |
What is it with reading books multiple times anyway? I (almost) never do it. New stuff is kinda more interesting.  |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
You notice new things the second or third time around. Or at least I do, anyway. Perhaps I'm just inattentive.
Plus some books have a style that is enjoyable in itself, even if you already know the content. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
What is it with reading books multiple times anyway? I (almost) never do it. New stuff is kinda more interesting. |
I've never done it to fiction, but there are some textbooks I've read more than once, like the "Brain and the Meaning of Life" I posted earlier.
I suck at reading one book at a time, but I want to finish this book before the weekend:
Though there are also 7 other books I'm reading at the moment :p |
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| Meat187 |
| Of course you can still gain something at the second read. I just feel that the time is better invested into exploring new material. It's not like you ever run out of new books and the new is always most interesting to me. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| I reread lots of old stuff. Even some old threads. I like to cement some stuff in my memory, and rereading helps with that. I also like seeing whether I think differently about it the second time around. |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I reread lots of old stuff. Even some old threads. I like to cement some stuff in my memory, and rereading helps with that. I also like seeing whether I think differently about it the second time around. |
Me too. I have a horrible memory. The main reason is like you said though; I like to see if I think differently the next time. I enjoy reading my own writing the most, actually, as I'm very introspective. |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
Me too. I have a horrible memory. The main reason is like you said though; I like to see if I think differently the next time. I enjoy reading my own writing the most, actually, as I'm very introspective. |
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