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Books for which you're due for a reread

>> No.23217340

None. I gotta finish war and peace and then it’s Anna karenina time (I’ve become tolstoy-pilled)

>> No.23217349

>>23217235
those books sucked

>> No.23217352

>>23217235
Probably 50% of my reading is rereads so it’s a long list of books I want to open up again

>> No.23217603

>>23217235

I enjoyed Stella Maris a lot more after the first reading of both. Curious how each will land the second time around but desu that’s probably a couple of years away. Too much on the list.

>> No.23217732

>>23217235
Same, but some things are so good you'd just as well let them sit, because the next experience will be entirely different moreso with what he did with the narrative releasing them in the order he did, sneaky old coot

>> No.23217744

>>23217235
I love the fact that just before he died McCarthy revealed himself as a midwit who was only good at writing shoot-em-up Westerns for pretentious undergrads.

>> No.23217746

>>23217235
>Books for which you're due for a reread
>for which
>due for
>Cormac McCarthy reader doesn't understand basic grammar
not surprising

>> No.23217754

>>23217746
Hold up. I normally would say
>I'm due for a reread of the Passenger.
So would it be
>Books of which you're due for a reread
? That sounds odd. What would you say?

>> No.23218147

>>23217744
>only good at writing shoot-em-up Westerns for pretentious undergrads.
Now try actually reading him, retard.

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23218192

Yeah it's getting to be that time again

>> No.23218209

>>23217754
I'm not the other guy, but

"Books of which you're due for a re-read" is correct.

It might sound slightly odd but that's just because of the tangled word order. If you untangle things, it becomes clear that "of" is correct:

"What books are you due for a re-read of?"

"I'm due for a re-read of ‘In Search of Lost Time’, ‘Spivak's Calculus On Manifolds’ and ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’ ”

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23218347

>>23217235
The Sun Also Rises
Absalom, Absalom!
maybe Ulysses
Any anons know of anything by Faulkner or another writer with a similar feeling to Absalom?

>> No.23218369

>>23217235
All reread threads should be supported, since /lit/ undervalues rereading. (That's the impression I get, at least.)

Rereading is probably 3/4 of my total reading, but I rarely reread a whole book cover-to-cover. I'll reread one poem, one short story, one scene from a novel.

I have lists for reading new things, but no lists for rereading. I just dip into whatever comes to mind (most commonly, whatever I happen to be quoting).