For years I resisted rereading any books. Now that I'm semi-retired, I've reread a few of my older favs. I wish I could have someone use the flashy thing from Men in Black to make me forget my favorite books so I could consume them again for the first time.
So my question for all of you is, how long do you wait to reread your favorites? Got any tricks to make it feel fresh?
by CoderJoe1
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If you’re a generally forgetful person and you also drink many alcohols, you’re liable to forget lots of stuff especially over several years.
It’s not a strategy I recommend but it works.
It gets easier as you get older. A novel you read 15 years ago? Might as well be the first time you ever read it.
same energy
I never reread a book. People on Reddit love to fuss at me about that, but there are so many books that I want to read and I’ll never get through them all. I can’t spend time rereading a story I already know.
This is ME only. No judgment on anyone else, before someone gets offended.
Some books I’ll re-read within a few months if they’ve been particularly profound / left thinking about them to scratch the itch.
Series I’ll usually give it a few years from finishing the last book in a series before thinking about going back to re-read.
To make it feel fresh I try and focus not so much on the plot if I remember / remembering it well but try to focus more on the world / characterisations and focus on how it develops.
I love to reread! I don’t really need it to feel fresh though, the more details I remember, the more comforting it is to reread. A year or two between reads is usually a good gap for me.