What are you currently Rereading?

[Ken B]

Rereading thread.

Right now I am rereading some old murder mysteries. I reread an Ellery Queen and it did not hold up. I reread Thou Shell Of Death by Nicholas Blake, and it did. Slight and quick mystery with a clever solution.

I will soon also be rereading Boule de Suif by Maupassant, but this time in French.

[MN Dave]

Picked up an Elric book for the first time in forty years or so. Haven't got past the intro yet.

[bwv 1080]

The Malazan Book of the Fallen, up to book 9 >> [ LOTR, GRRM ]

[MN Dave]

The Malazan Book of the Fallen, up to book 9 >> [ LOTR, GRRM ]

Quite an achievement! You ever read those Jordan books?

[bwv 1080]

Quite an achievement! You ever read those Jordan books?

read the first six or seven and lost interest - too much of a dark lord good v evil trope.  THe buildup was interesting but then seemed to stall

[MN Dave]

read the first six or seven and lost interest - too much of a dark lord good v evil trope.  THe buildup was interesting but then seemed to stall

He wrote some Conan too, don'tchaknow.

[bwv 1080]

He wrote some Conan too, don'tchaknow.

Are those good? 

[MN Dave]

Are those good?

I'm sort of a purist so I never really tried one.

[bwv 1080]

I'm sort of a purist so I never really tried one.

Same here

[Karl Henning]

A retro post . . . before this thread was created, I re-read the Hitchhiker's Guide, vols. 1-4 (in fact, I only notice now, with this new e-book edition I've got, that a fifth book has been added).  The first time I read So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, I don't know that I ever finished it . . . I suffered kind of a guilty sorrow at the thought that I was losing patience with Douglas Adams.  I did manage to finish it, now.  But, I'll go ahead and say that not only is it slow going at first, but that it's all a build-up to (for Adams) an unexceptional punch line.

For this reason, I don't know that I'll bother with the fifth book, even though it's right there, on my Nook.

More timely:  I am re-reading The Lord of the Rings, though out of order . . . I started with The Two Towers (i.e., books three and four), and I've now jumped back to book two.

[MN Dave]

A retro post . . . before this thread was created, I re-read the Hitchhiker's Guide, vols. 1-4 (in fact, I only notice now, with this new e-book edition I've got, that a fifth book has been added).  The first time I read So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, I don't know that I ever finished it . . . I suffered kind of a guilty sorrow at the thought that I was losing patience with Douglas Adams.  I did manage to finish it, now.  But, I'll go ahead and say that not only is it slow going at first, but that it's all a build-up to (for Adams) an unexceptional punch line.

For this reason, I don't know that I'll bother with the fifth book, even though it's right there, on my Nook.

More timely:  I am re-reading The Lord of the Rings, though out of order . . . I started with The Two Towers (i.e., books three and four), and I've now jumped back to book two.

And so the fantasy flows.

[Elgarian Redux]

Georgette Heyer's historical romances are old favourites of my wife's, from way back in the sixties, and from time to time she would read one to me, aloud. So I got to know some of them quite well, and I always thought Heyer had been the victim of far too much literary snootyism on the one hand, and an excess of macho dismissal as 'women's stuff', on the other.

She is uneven, admittedly, but she can write exquisitely and with delicate wit. One of her very best is A Civil Contract, which I've just reread. No fireworks, no dashing romantic escapades - but a deep feeling for the Regency period, and its characters constitute a very rewarding company to spend time with for a few days. I would seriously consider including it among my 10 desert island novels.

[Karl Henning]

(* takes note *)

[Elgarian Redux]

(* takes note *)

You might find it a bit soppy, Karl. I don't, myself. I think it treads on the right side of the soppiness line. But some might disagree. And bear in mind that I am, above all, an old softy.

[Karl Henning]

I would not have you at all otherwise than you are, dear fellow.

[Elgarian Redux]

I would not have you at all otherwise than you are, dear fellow.

*Bursts into tears*

[Karl Henning]

(* hands him a fresh handkerchief *)

[Elgarian Redux]

Wotcha mean, a handkerchief? I need a BOX of 'em.

[Karl Henning]

"You're gonna need a bigger handkerchief!"

[Rosalba]

I'm rereading 'I capture the castle' by Dodie Smith. It's wonderful - so quirky & funny and atmospheric, but also it says such true things about consciousness and Life with a capital L.