A serious contender for my second look: Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.
I've read a bunch of books in my life so far, and as with many movies, I generally forget all but the gist of the stories within weeks after closing their covers. So why is it, then, that I rarely consider rereading the ones I remember enjoying? There's something about rereading that's always seemed a little wasteful to me, that if I have time to read I should be digging into something new. But then I read "Now, Read It Again" by David Gates in Newsweek, and this bit, in particular, made me rethink things:
Most of us, though, have our own musical canon — or why do they sell so many iPods? — and no one feels guilty about listening to, say, Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" just once in a lifetime.
Looking at that quote again, I'm wondering if he meant "more than once in a lifetime" instead of "just once in a lifetime." At any rate, I read it as saying, hey — we listen to our favorite albums over and over again, why not revisit our favorite characters with similar regularity? And that makes a lot of sense to me.
So, do you reread your favorite books? Which covers do you crack open time and time again?
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