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07-12-2007, 04:05 PM
|  | had a dad is fkn GRAND! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: bucks, uk.
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| |  books that you only "got" the second time around
what books did you lose interest in or give up on on the first reading & the second time around suddenly realise how amazing they were?
when i was very small i tried to read the hogfather but pratchett was completely above me at the time. later i came back & was like fkn hell this is awesome.
the same goes for a few books on buddhism - i gave up on a lot when i was around 14/15 but having returned to them in the last few years they suddenly make so much sense & are eye-opening & amazing. it's funny what time can do. |
07-13-2007, 06:47 PM
|  | obsidianblackbirdmcnight | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: aotearoa
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| | | there are way too many for me to list BUT notables include wicked by gregory maguire & fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s. thompson
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07-13-2007, 06:54 PM
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| | | Grapes of Wrath i put down the first time. Now it is in my top 3 books ever. |
07-14-2007, 07:56 AM
|  | I'm Designer | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The Netherlands
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| | | Insomniac by Stephen King (it is quite thick) and Hamlet. (I know, quite a contrast, Shakespeare and King) |
07-14-2007, 08:43 AM
|  | Girls! Girls! Girls! | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | Where's Wally doesn't count?
Seriously, I'd say Catch-22. |
07-14-2007, 08:52 AM
|  | Tarty Blond for a moment | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: My anger management class is pissing me off
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| | | '2001' by Arthur Clarke. |
07-15-2007, 01:13 PM
|  | Damn it, Janet! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: munich, germany
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| | | On the Road by Jack Kerouac |
07-15-2007, 01:50 PM
|  | a snib for the nones | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: dead end street
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| | | tess of the d'urbervilles really irritated me the first time i tried to read it, probably because i'd been reading a lot of angela carter beforehand. i picked it up a few months later and really enjoyed it. it's like being in a roman polanski film. |
07-15-2007, 07:33 PM
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| | | the great gatsby
generation x |
08-11-2007, 04:56 PM
|  | bittersweet is evergreen | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Glasgow Scotland
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| | | Catcher In The Rye, though I'm kind of glad that I didn't get into that when I was younger. And I still don't fully get On The Road. |
08-11-2007, 06:39 PM
|  | Woman Talking to Death | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brooklyn
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| | | Jane Eyre. I was eight years old when I first tried, and I totally lost interest after her childhood.
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08-11-2007, 06:59 PM
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| | | I don't blame you. That's the best part. |
08-12-2007, 05:50 AM
|  | in the end they all tried | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ireland
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by miss lisa  On the Road by Jack Kerouac | Likewise, along with "Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas". I dunno what it is with me and travel literature, but I just needed to get rid of my preconceptions about the genre and take the books on from a fresh perspective. Now they're among my favorite pieces of modern lit.
Animal Farm also took some "sinking in". I'd first read it when I was about 10, but didn't fully understand the symbolism until I read it again at age 16.
Something tells me I should re-read Murakami. |
08-12-2007, 08:52 AM
|  | Only this & nothing more | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Scotland
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Originally Posted by deadrockstar Where's Wally doesn't count?
Seriously, I'd say Catch-22. | Same here, the first time i read it I couldnt have been more confused. |
08-12-2007, 10:10 AM
| | Girls! Girls! Girls! | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by bitterglitter Same here, the first time i read it I couldnt have been more confused. | The second time through I read it a solid chapter each sitting. It helped. |
08-22-2007, 06:21 AM
|  | no lust in this coma | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Edinburgh
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| | | I'm not sure this counts, but the first time I read The Bell Jar I thought nothing of the mention of the baby at the start. Given the end of it, I went back and re-read it and got so much more out of it... but then it's one of those books that I think will always have surprises in it for me.
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08-22-2007, 06:54 AM
|  | this isn't you yet | | Join Date: Feb 2007
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by desdemona
Something tells me I should re-read Murakami.
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YES!!!
i did exactly that.
it worked. loved them all. |
08-22-2007, 07:13 AM
|  | Chairman~MouseyTongue | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chairman Meow
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| | | I know I made the same mistake with pratchet. I tried to read a book at random when i was a kid and found it hard going. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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