I admit with so many shiny new books coming along I don’t re-read as much as I used to. Which is a shame because re-reading books is so enjoyable and it’s fun if you come across things you hadn’t noticed before…anyway this is more a ‘Books I have re-read multiple times but now haven’t touched in a while because sadly the day has only 24 hours and I need to sleep occasionally’.
1. James Barclay: Dawnthief
I think I almost immediately went back to re-reading some passages after finishing it the first time. The book just came around at exactly the right time for me and had everything I wanted (mages! elves! an unpredictable plot!) and unlike so many fantasy-novels death wasn’t cheap: with one exception everybody who died, stayed dead (and lots of people died) and the characters actually reacted to those deaths and also didn’t forget about them after a chapter. Now, this does make it sound like an odd choice for a frequent re-read but…well I’m odd 😉
2. The Harry Potter Series
I was a fantasy-loving teenager in the late 90s/early 00s. I am sure this is a very surprising addition to this list…
3. Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
TTM was among the first ‘grown-up’ books I read. I think I was about 12 at the time and it took me a while to get through. Once I had managed it I was very sad about the ending and called two of my stuffed animal Constance and d’Artagnan so at least those could be happy. I still re-read it a couple of times and my love for it has turned into a strange obsession where I’m not only reading the book but also watch so many movie-adaptations…
Some of them are great fun
Some are fun but you also wonder if the people who made the movie ever read the book
And some…also exist
Sorry. I just got carried away…be glad I don’t have more gifs from the really bad versions. North Korean spies-bad. David Hasselhoff and Thomas Gottschalk are in it-bad.
Fun fact: Nowhere in the book does it say that Rochefort wears an eyepatch, just that he has a scar near his eye. However, Christopher Lee wore one in the 74-version and since then approximately 2/3 of all actors playing him have done so as well.
Where was I? Right. Re-reading books
4. Terry Pratchett: Men at Arms
The correct answer to ‘What is your favourite Discworld-book?’ is obviously ‘Give me a week to write an essay in which I examine every single book in detail.’ but…I love Men at Arms a lot. Because of Angua. I love Angua a lot.
5. Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes
No, I’m not frequently re-reading the complete Sherlock Holmes but some stories I can re-read again and again. Or listen to again and again because Holmes stories are perfectly suited for audio plays. And I love my collection of the Peter Pasetti ones, even if they are based on different translations which means Holmes and Watson sometimes use the formal Sie and sometimes the informal Du with each other. (And let’s not get into the pronunciation of Holmes in some of them…)
I can not re-read books but I love to re-read my favorite scenes. My TTT.
I loved Christoph Waltz having fun… half these Musketeer movies were so silly. Loved the book. I also quite liked the Iron Mask adaptation with DiCaprio. And I completely forgot what a babyface d’Artagnan had in the 1993 adaptation….that cast was brilliant.
Yes they are (but then the book is often quite silly) and the Men in the Iron Mask is great fun as well (but I had to stop with the gifs somewhere XD)
I have not read The Three Musketeers or seen any of the movies, the gifs you added may have changed my mind.
Hehe my cunning plan worked XD (I do recommend the 70s version with Michael York. It has the advantage of being quite true to the original AND is available in English…the 90s version with Charlie Sheen is also quite enjoyable but shares only the characters and some vague plotpoints with the book)
I really wish I had been a teenager when the Harry Potter books came out (instead, I was a pregnant adult). But I still love them. 🙂
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thanks!
Sherlock Holmes is great, and Harry Potter is on almost everyone’s list!
Here’s our tuesday posts
Top ten tuesday: http://jennreneeread.blogspot.com/2018/02/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-could-re-read.html
Teaser tuesday:
http://jennreneeread.blogspot.com/2018/02/teaser-tuesday-what-waits-in-woods-by.html
Great choices! Harry Potter made my list, too!
I think HP made a lot of lists 😀
I haven’t read any of the books in your TTT post this week. Lots of books for me to explore. Happy reading!!
Here’s a link to my TTT post this week:
http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2018/02/top-ten-tuesday-top-20-books-i-want-to.html?showComment=1519763870518#c5107883999471523910
The Three Musketeers is one of my more classic classics that I want to read the most. 😀 Hopefully that’ll happen in the next few years, it does sound like a lot of fun!
It is. I’ve read more by Dumas and his other books are also good but TTM ist just FUN
Harry Potter was on my list this week too!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/top-ten-tuesday-148/