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Books you wish you could read for the first time again

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HoldenCaulfield80 · 24/01/2015 21:59

I'm putting together a rough list of books I want to read in 2015 and decided to put One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest on there. I've read it before, countless times, but every time I feel a bit sad that I'll never get the same feeling I had at the end of the novel when things come to a head. I can remember exactly where I was when I finished reading it (back of the school bus going home, must have been my last GCSE year) and the fact that I re-read the last few pages over again because I couldn't believe what had happened.

Anyone else had a book that they wish they could read for the first time again? What would it be?

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emmelinelucas · 03/02/2015 15:56

My apologies, I have gone off the topic.

As we were..

BagelwithButter · 08/02/2015 00:41

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy

ScrambledEggAndToast · 08/02/2015 06:57
  1. Always my same answer whenever anyone asks me this question. I was thrilled when I realised a few weeks ago there was a film. Not as good as the book but still, something a bit different. Second choice would be Children of the Dust followed by Until Your Mine. All fab books.
ScrambledEggAndToast · 08/02/2015 06:58

*you're

ScrambledEggAndToast · 08/02/2015 07:00

Ooh, realised I already posted on this thread a few days ago. Must just be very keen Grin

thelittlebooktroll · 08/02/2015 09:07

The secret history

Footle · 08/02/2015 09:36

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RecklessSerenade · 08/02/2015 09:43

The Stand, Stephen King

A lot of suggestions on here that are now on my to read list.

Bohemond · 08/02/2015 09:51

The wasp factory
American psycho
The secret history
(I like dark clearly!)

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CalicoBlue · 08/02/2015 22:00

I cried when I finished Peter Pan as a child. I knew I would never be able to read it for the first time again. I have felt like that about a lot of books...

The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Hotel New Hampshire - lot of John Irvin here.
Tess of the D'Urbevilles

Asked DH he says A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Provencalroseparadox · 11/02/2015 20:52

Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
All the Harry Potters
All the Philip Pullman (HDM and Sally Lockhart)
The Abhorsen Series
The Goldfinch
Day of the Triffids
The Thorn Birds
Gone with the Wind

Provencalroseparadox · 11/02/2015 20:53

The Submission

bimandbam · 11/02/2015 20:59

Any of Jilly Coopers. Especially The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous.

walkardaniel · 13/02/2015 11:58

My choice is "Foreign Tongue" and second is "Five Quarters of the Orange". These are my all time favourite books and I read them before going to long trip and I feel something happiness in my journey.

Laska4 · 23/03/2015 20:15

A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki (... I recommend this to everyone..)

Harvest, Jim Crace

Burial Rites, Hannah Kent

(all of those three I read on holday last year .. and all were fantastic)

Middlemarch George Eliot .... the classic..

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