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Is there ONE book....

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tobee · 21/11/2016 20:53

that you wish you could read for the first time again? Off the top of your head. Or is that too hard? For me, tonight, it would be Diary of a Provincial Lady and subsequent volumes.

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StUmbrageinSkelt · 25/11/2016 07:18

I have The Great Roxhythe by Heyer sitting on my shelf. Found it in an opshop after looking for it for years. I know it's supposed to be terrible and she suppressed it for a reason. But once I read it, that's it. No more.

I'd like to be reading Dunnett for the first time. All of them.

DeeCrepid · 25/11/2016 05:16

A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry, harrowing but brilliant.

Pallisers · 24/11/2016 00:13

My first ever Wooster book - not even sure which one it was but it was so delightful and there was a whole row of them in the library (can still remember the binding)

I would love to read Gilead again for the first time.

I re read Anne of Green Gables again as an adult and she danced off the page exactly as she had when I was 10.

Loved the Count of Monte Cristo too.

My uncle read Jane Eyre for the first time aged 60. he called me afterwards and said that he had sat up all night to finish it and he had no idea "literature" could be so good.

mmack · 24/11/2016 00:04

I used to re-read Gone with the Wind every year until I had children. I had to stop because reading it is too all-consuming. I'll start again when they have all left home.

clary · 24/11/2016 00:04

oooh I love love love Bring up the Bodies and The Goldfinch, possibly my top two books of the century...

But but but DD has just started reading The Great Gatsby for the first time and I am so jealous of her, so that, I guess.

DramaAlpaca · 24/11/2016 00:01

Katherine by Anya Seton.

And another vote for Gone With the Wind.

FoundNeverland · 23/11/2016 23:59

Mists of Avalon. Marion Zimmer Bradley.

I've read it so many times that the cover has fallen off. An epic book.

FinnegansCake · 23/11/2016 23:57

I love A Kind of Loving, I still remember reading it for the first time and saying "yes" - Barstow's characterisation is spot on.

Another book I would like to read as if it were for the first time is The Book Thief, it is incredibly moving and had me in tears.

FastWindow · 23/11/2016 23:56

Yes sosidges Monte Cristo. Such a three course meal of a book. With sorbet, coffee and classy cigars.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 23/11/2016 23:52

The Poisonwood Bible

SwedishEdith · 23/11/2016 23:49

I went to buy The Count Of Monte Cristo today because of this thread. It's massive!

mmack · 23/11/2016 23:47

Gone with the Wind for me as well. Nothing compares to it.

onlyslightlyinterested · 23/11/2016 16:43

The Thorn birds by Colleen McCulloch, and A kind of loving by Stan Barstow. Oh , and Yes by Barry Hines

Sadik · 22/11/2016 17:06

I love the Provincial Lady, but I'm happy I first met her as a teenager - she feels like a comfortable friend I've known all my life :)

I wish I still had Georgette Heyer books I hadn't read!

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tobee · 21/11/2016 23:07

Oh yes I agree about Woman in White. Still have Count of Monte Cristo and Gone with the Wind to read for starters. Hooray!

I think it's Diary of Provincial Lady right now because I'm yearning to get into an amusing, multi volumed book that's set in an a different world, but with modern day resonance. Keep on trying and trying to get into something else to take me away from it all but it everything's been a bit meh for a while.

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MapMyMum · 21/11/2016 22:55

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

MrsRhettButler · 21/11/2016 22:54

Just as an aside I've started The Count Of Monte Cristo as a result of this thread.

MrsRhettButler · 21/11/2016 22:52

We have the same taste Happy although I've not read the Little Women books for so long that it would be like reading them again, other than the fact that I know Jo doesn't marry Laurie!
I remember being so annoyed when she wouldn't and then coming to the realisation that she was right Grin
No, I take it back, it would never be like the first time again.

HappydaysArehere · 21/11/2016 22:40

I agree with Gone With the Wind.

Before that was Little Women and Good Wives. The pleasure they gave me was without parallel.

DigestiveMuncher · 21/11/2016 22:19

Mine are local girl missing and the murder house!!
But because they both have such good twists that if I was to read them again I would know what was coming.

southeastdweller · 21/11/2016 22:16

The Goldfinch.

EsmesBees · 21/11/2016 21:11

Loads. I often feel jealous of people on here reading great books for the first time. Mine are Brideshead Revisited and Hitchhikers' Guide.

AgentProvocateur · 21/11/2016 21:11

A Fine Balance.

Sosidges · 21/11/2016 21:09

The Count of Monte Cristo

FrogTime · 21/11/2016 21:08

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

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