Do you read books multiple times? I don’t do it often, but I’ve done my share of re-readings. There are tons of Hindi comics I must have read two or three times. Then there was this pocket book for teens that had the two detective protagonists joining a team of explorers visiting a dark part of Africa. This is perhaps the book I have re-read the most because I simply fell in love with the way different relationships developed and how different group members who were hostile to each other in the beginning of the expeditions, faced death together again and again and saved each other. It was partly like that The Lost serial that comes on TV (is it still coming?).
Another 52 Books has a post about the joys of rereading and I got the idea of writing this quick post from this.
After growing up my re-reading has revolved around Garcia, Rushdie, Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Dostoyevski, Kafka and Agatha Christie and in the same order, their books are:
- One Hundred Years of Solitude — 4 times
- Love In The Time Of Cholera — twice
- Midnight’s Children — twice
- The Moor’s Last Sigh — twice
- Great Expectations — thrice
- Jude the Obscure — twice
- Crime and Punishment — twice
- The Metamorphosis — more than 4 times
- The Nemesis — twice
I’m sure there are some other books too that I must have read more than once but I cannot recall the names of those books. I’ll write more about this topic some day soon.
