Is there ONE book....

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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.

For me it would be Cold Comfort Farm. I daren't re-read it, though, in case it doesn't live up to my memories of it.

Gone With The Wind
I can't remember a time I hadn't read it so must of been very young, I'd love to read it now for the first time, I wonder if I'd love it the same... or more
I've never read Diary Of A Provincial Lady so I have the chance to give it a go

Have! *must have

The Count of Monte Christo

The Bell Jay

Bring Up The Bodies.

Superb.

Jay?!
The Bell Jar

The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell. Wonderful book.

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

The Count of Monte Cristo

A Fine Balance.

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

The Goldfinch.

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.

I agree with Gone With the Wind.

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

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
No, I take it back, it would never be like the first time again.

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

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

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.

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!

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

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

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

The Poisonwood Bible

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