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Posted 2014-08-13 10:57 AM (#8307 - in reply to #8290)
Subject: Re: "Read it again, Sam." Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		I think I'm going to join this challenge. In my personal challenge to read all the Hugo winners, there were 5 I had already read (over the past 30 years) and wasn't planning on rereading until I started writing reviews. Then getting involved with all the WWEnd challenges, I wasn't sure when I'd get around to reading them. I was thinking of creating a personal challenge for these books, but now with Dave's challenge, I can be part of public one.

I generally don't reread books because I'm a slow reader and there's so many books I haven't read. Before 2006, the only books I'd reread were Tolkien's. In 2006, I reread two Salinger books because I got a set of all his works and read them all. Then right before I started reading all the Hugos, I reread Left Hand of Darkness, Lord of Light, Canticle for Leibowitz, and Pern, for several reasons: because I loved them so much, because I got cheap used copies, and because I had nothing else to do while recovering from back and anxiety problems. Then on a trip to Powell's Used Books, I found their Hugo winner display and became obsessed with the Hugos, and then I discovered WWEnd through jfrantz's Hugo Endurance Challenge blog, and well, the rest is history.

As for general feelings about rereading, I generally couldn't understand people who read books over and over. For most of my adult life, I barely read 10 books a year, and had a huge TBR pile, so rereading seemed like a waste of time. Then I met my partner who was one of those people with books crumbling from so much handling. And his mom is one of those annual LOTR readers. I softened up when I reread Salinger, Left Hand, etc, because I realized I got to experience them with a different life perspective, and rediscovered why I loved them to begin with.

So the books I'll be rereading are Dune, American Gods, Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and Goblet of Fire (which may mean I'll reread the whole Potter series). I might reread Simak's "A Choice of Gods" because I never got around to writing a review for it. It's the only book from all my challenges this year that I haven't reviewed.

Thanks, Dave, for creating this challenge! I'm glad you made it a year long.

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