Re reading books?

[Caitlan]

What’s everyone’s opinions on reading books you have already read before?

[Ani]

This really depends on the book itself. If it is a romance novel, well most of the time I already know which direction it will go, even when I am reading it for the first time. Sometimes, it ends up becoming very wholesome and I might consider rereading the book. Either immediately after I have finished it or somewhere down the road, a few months or years later, when I want something wholesome and safe.
Crime novels/thrillers on the other hand I never reread. The only ones I have ever reread were classic ones, like Agatha Christie's Poirot books. Otherwise it's just not the same feeling. No exhilaration. If the story can't make me freeze in my bed at 3 am in the dark in my bed, too terrified to put the book aside but too tired to actually follow the complex story, I am not interested in the arc.
Fantasy books on the other hand, I might reread because many of them come in installments over a few years and by the time the next one is out, I have already forgotten the finer details of the previous books and I reread them. That's how I ended up reading the Harry Potter books 7 times as a teenager. Because I reread them as they were being published back in the day. I have since evolved my technique and sometimes, if a first book is especially gripping, I postpone reading the sequels until the series is complete.