Author Topic: Do you need to start what you've finished reading?  (Read 11738 times)

Planish

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Reply #25 on: February 12, 2011, 05:16:56 AM
I reread (or relisten to) some books, music, and rewatch some movies, but listening to jazz and experimental music is a different case.
I often enjoy it the first time I hear it performed live, but after that there is no surprise, so I can't stand it any more.

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Reply #26 on: February 12, 2011, 05:48:11 PM
I recently reread a book I hadn't planned to and it was fun anyway. I tried for months to get my husband to read The Warded Man by Peter Brett because I knew he'd love it, but he never did pick it up. Finally, on a long road trip, I started reading it aloud to him. By the end of the trip, we were more than half done, so he was hooked and we both finished it up on our own time.

I used to reread in this fashion all the time, reading to my parents as they drove to and fro, or while my mother (a seamstress) was working. My mother is also dyslexic and never did read much, so it made me happy whenever she really enjoyed the books.

Side note, when I was 14 or so, we got a Discworld audio book from the library. A bell would ring to signal the scene changes. When I started reading the Discworld books to my parents, I would say "Ding" at scene changes. Happy memories.



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Reply #27 on: February 12, 2011, 11:45:36 PM
@tinaygaia, I love reading to my wife*, it's such a lovely way to share something together. It's great fun and good practice for public speaking and stuff.

* My wife loves it too; says it sends her to sleep :-\