Women: How many times would you read a book you really like?

Question

Truth please.

Answer 1

I've read some of my favorite books five times or more.

Answer 2

As many as I want.

I have read some books as many as 30 times or more. So yeah.

Answer 3

I always have at least 3 books on the go at once, so I usually only read books once. However, Ihave read 'The Power of One' twice as well as 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. These are such amazing books.

Answer 4

just once, i can't stand reading the same book over and over

Answer 5

I have read HP all books at least 5 to 6 times.

Answer 6

once in every 3-4 months or so or never.

Answer 7

If I really like a book I usually read it 3-6 times. I've read a couple books 10-15 times maybe.

To me it's just like seeing a movie over again or watching a repeat of a television episode. I always pick up something that I didn't catch before.

Answer 8

Well, it depends on the time frame. I wouldn't read a book over and over again in one month, but over the course of several years, I could see myself reading a book that I liked a handful of times.

Answer 9

Many times. I only have a few on my shelf that I really like, though.

Answer 10

well,,i've read 'gone with the wind' about 11 times,,,the mayfair witches chronicles (anne rice) (and there are 3 very long books in the series) twice,,,and there are a few other books that i've read more than once.

Answer 11

i've read wuthering heights i think 32 times.

so yeah.

Answer 12

Many many many times! I read the last HP book 12 times.

Answer 13

A really good book can be read many times.  I've never counted but there are several books that I have revisited at different times in my life and found something new each time.

Answer 14

When it comes to poems and erotica/short stories I will read them over and over. But for regular novels it is not as exciting because I know what will happen next. I like the mystery of not knowing what will happen.

Answer 15

Countless. I've read some books (3 that I'm sure of) at least 50 times. They're like friends after a point... you can open them anywhere and be immediately pulled into a very familiar world... that isn't quite your own.

If I don't like a book well enough to go through it one more time, it's a bad sign.

Growing up, I didn't have friends (very small, hostile WV school) so I did nothing but read... on this deployment... 11 months in... I've probably read over a hundred books, but most of them don't warrant another cover-to-cover devouring. This is sad. It's not easy finding books worth reading here... there is a SHOCKING amount of romance novels, which I can't digest... so I have probably 20 books squirreled away in my wall locker and 10 more loaned out to people who are desperate for a good read... which makes for slim pickins indeed... I've read "Dark Tower VII" I don't even know how many times this deployment, it looks like someone took their rage out on this pathetic paperback... too raggedy to even donate...

Answer 16

Depends on the book. I used to do that when I was younger, but now I like to read stuff to learn. I am about to read a little true crime - but right now I am fascinated with cults and the tragedy at Jonestown.

Just finished today - Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple by Deborah Layton.

I can't remember the last time I read the same book twice.

Answer 17

There are some books I have read many, many times.  I have probably read 'Three Men In A Boat' by Jerome K. Jerome upwards of twenty times over the years for instance, and the same goes for 'My Family and Other Animals' by Gerald Durrell, 'The General Danced at Dawn' by George Macdonald Fraser,  'The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody' by Will Cuppy, '1066 and All that' by Sellar & yeatman, and 'My Life and Hard Times' by James Thurber.  There are others I've probably read a dozen or so times, many more about half a dozen times, and a lot that I've read two or three times.  There's really no limit to the number of times I can re-read a book I enjoy.

However, I don't think this is a particularly female phenomenon.  My husband re-reads favourites of his as well, I don't know how many times he's read 'the Day of the Triffids' and 'The Kraken Wakes' by John Wyndham for instance, but I think it must be a lot.

Answer 18

I have a special shelf just for books that I perpetually re-read, some collections 6-7 times now, philosophy and history stuff.  Non-fiction is rare on that shelf.  I do re-read sci-fi 3-5 times over the years and then no more.  I collect war diaries and lovers' coorespondance and I re-read it all about once a year or so. I'd say.  New revelations and depths each time.

Answer 19

Oh, I couldn't even begin to count how many times I've read my favorite books. My favorites are Siddhartha, Candide, Stranger in a Strange Land, Fight Club, The Neverending Story, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. And I can honestly say that I've read each one of those at least three times. The shorter ones, like Siddhartha and Candide I've read about five times.