Friday Poll: Reread

[trinityvixen]

I keep leaving behind books that I'm really keen on. Weekend before last, I left my biography of The Beatles at a friend's place. This week, I've gone and left The Stand at another friend's apartment.

Pity, that, as The Stand is my inspiration for this first Friday Poll in forever! I got a copy from my brother for Christmas (so thanks arcfox7!), but I had been studiously avoiding it for any number of reasons. Chief among these reasons, however, is the fact that, once I picked it up, I would be hard-pressed to put it down. But then I left the book I was reading behind and there wasn't enough depth to the comics I had out from the library, nor video games enough to distract me. I picked it up and started to read and promptly lost as much sleep to it as I had to Mass Effect 2. (Okay, maybe not quite that much, but a lot.)

I have read The Stand three times before. I love it, unabashedly, to pieces. The mini-series made of it is one of my favorites of all time, and probably the best Stephen King-to-film transition ever. I love it. I haven't had my own copy in ages, so I haven't reread it as often as, say, Pride and Prejudice, but I would have had I had a copy.

I mentioned this to my former roommate (ironically, it was at her home that I forgot The Stand), and she seemed doubtful when I assured her that, yes, just about every year I reread Pride and Prejudice. Last year, I cheated, reading only Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but I did watch the BBC miniseries (best novel-to-film transition, for any work, any author, any medium, EVER). I suppose that I am a terrible reader, and that you will judge me as such when I confess that I'd rather reread something I love than try something new.

I'm curious, though, if any of you have similar reading habits. Hence the poll.
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Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Strangely, I don't have many I consider "childhood" favorites that I revist often. Once, twice a decade, I might go back to them. But the few that I revisited most often are those I read in high school. Maybe that counts as childhood? (I certainly feel an inclination to call those as are in that age of life "youngin's" so maybe?)

I rarely have to reread series. I'll just plunge on ahead. Not always the best idea, of course. I'm frequently confused.

Fluff is fun, but the less weighty things often don't tempt me to reread them, you know? Like, I read it, it was adequately entertaining, but now I'm done. I'll read a whole series of books in that vein (like the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mysteries, though those are really the fault of liking Pride and Prejudice more than is healthy in the first place), but not the same book over.