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

[equustel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm still not in love with the Dark Tower series, TBH. On the third book right now and while it's involving and certainly impressive, I don't think I'm in a hurry to finish the rest - I plan to do a lot of other reading in-between volumes.

What's interesting about it, though, is how King's writing changes with each book - he wrote them over the space of 2+ decades, after all. You can really see how he develops as a writer, and how his interests change. Each book has been wildly different in style and content than the last.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I look forward to that, then. His writing has changed over time, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. What I'd really love is for him to go back to writing short stories. I think that's his best work, really, even though I like The Stand most.