Books you wish you could read again for the first time?

[[deleted user]]

HARRY POTTER :">

[Mona]

Lord of the rings and The Hobbit... :)

[Lisa]

Marie-Claude aka MC wrote: "Oh Lisa, I totally agree with you. I mean, EVERYONE loved Twilight, until it was considered 'cool' not to like Twilight. HAHA. I loved this stories and went through the series like CRAZY fast. :P"

Yes exactly!! I loved Twilight from the beginning and I will always love this story!! Why are people afraid to say that they love Twilight? Hey that should be a discussion question! lol

[[deleted user]]

Lords of the Underworld again - my mum has just started reading them and I'm jealous that she is discovering the characters for the first time!

[Tracey]

Song of Achilles, Wolf Hall, His Dark Materials... I'm actually jealous of people reading these for the first time.

[T.P.]

RA Salvatore's trilogy starting with streams of sliver, just very smooth reading, also The Hobbit. The Hobbit is just a fantastically told tale.

[Arwen]

Abandon

[Beatrice]

Harry Potter and Percy Jackson series

[Brandy]

Hmmmmm.....The Grey Wolf series, Vampire Academy, The Mortal Instruments, and well most books I've read, lol. There's sooooo many!!

[Maureen]

<3

[Traci]

First Grave on the Right, Sweet Evil, Die for Me, Jeanine Frost's Night Huntress series, Twilight (prehype), Pride & Prejudice, Brave New World, Outlander, The Snow Queen, Green Eggs & Ham, Royal Spyness Series and the Picture of Dorian Grey....

[Traci]

Lisa wrote: "Marie-Claude aka MC wrote: "Oh Lisa, I totally agree with you. I mean, EVERYONE loved Twilight, until it was considered 'cool' not to like Twilight. HAHA. I loved this stories and went through the ..."

Twilight and Harry Potter have been fabulous for how easily the captivate and entrance us; the problem is that it's been overly commercialized. That being said I still LOVE ME MY SPARKLY VAMPIRES AND QUIDDICH PLAYING WIZARDS. I am a Twihard. It has been 2 days since my last Twilight reference. =D

[Tohrutohno]

The Ancient One by T.A. Barron, absolutely loved this book when I first read it. I've reread it at least five times, but nothing could compare to the first time. I think I was in grade school when I first read it, but it left it's mark. I think this book is what got me really interested in reading and stimulated my imagination like no other.

Another would be Jayne Eyre. I first read this in middle school, and at the time, really identified with the main character(well at least her relationship with her step-family). I was gone with the first chapter and the love story will always be one of my favorites. I liken it to something of a twist on beauty and the beast, as crude of a comparison that may be.

[Rosanna]

What a great idea for a thread! I have reread it, and wish I could keep reading
The themes aren't new, but it's beautifully done.

[Ms. Dreamer]

Acheron
I would read the dark hunter series over again.

[Ms. Dreamer]

Acheron
I would read the dark hunter series over again.

[T.P.]

Eric T. Russel's Next of Kin, the most hilarious book I have read, and I'm not normally into scifi. The bit about Eustaces is the best, as well as the skunk pellets.

[Sophie]

Marie-Claude aka MC wrote: "Oh Lisa, I totally agree with you. I mean, EVERYONE loved Twilight, until it was considered 'cool' not to like Twilight. HAHA. I loved this stories and went through the series like CRAZY fast. :P"

Correction. I did not particularly enjoy Twilgiht, as strange as I am. :)

[Sophie]

I wish I could re-read... (prepare yourself for a long list)...

-Divergent
-Mortal Instruments
-The Infernal Devices
-Harry Potter
-Throne of Glass + Novella's
-The Hunger Games (Only the first and second - I don't particularly want to be dissapointed again.
-The Hobbit
-Virals
-The Velesi Trilogy
-Angelfall
-Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
etc
etc
ect

Basically, I would like to be able to begin all my books over again, with the exception of a few. (Enthralled, The Elemental Mysteries, etc.)

So, EVERYTHING!

[Carrie (Book Fairy), LoP Heart & Soul]

Dark Legend by Christine FEEHAN I LOVE THAT BOOK and re read it every couple months it's still fantastic but, nothing like the first time!

[Anushka]

The Mortal Instruments

[Ms. Dreamer]

Carrie, Dark Legend is about the twins and one of my favorite in her series, you have good taste in books.

[Athena Ivashkova ~♥~]

Tiger Lily, but it would be a pain to read it again :P

[Jacqueline]

I wish I could read Jacqueline Carey's Kusiel's series again. It was so wonderful the first time!

http://www.goodreads.com/series/83135...

[Carrie (Book Fairy), LoP Heart & Soul]

Jacquelyn wrote: "Carrie, Dark Legend is about the twins and one of my favorite in her series, you have good taste in books."

Thank you sweetie! I love her whole series but, this one I always re read when I need something! Don't ask me what that something is because I have no idea. ;) those brothers have an amazing bond!!!

[Moriah]

Marwa wrote: "Harry Potter Series :)"

So do I, It was ended too fast.

[Jontelle]

Definitely the Fallen Series! Also the Mortal Insteuments and of course the Cassie Palmer books (Touch the Dark etc) ! If only ;( *sigh*

[[deleted user]]

The Help. It's my favorite book and I'd give anything read it again.

[Ashley]

Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare. It is the best book I have EVER EVER EVER read!

[Heather]

TMI/TID

[Marylene]

Pride and Prejudice! I love the story!

[Ariane]

TMI

[Sophie]

TMI, TID, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Virals series, etc etc - basically everything on my favourite list.

:)

[Melissa]

Jessica by Bryce Courtenay.

[Moriah]

I wish I could read The Wheel of Time series By Robert Jordan again.

This is a series of 22 books. I read the first five at a very young age and I really want to read them again. I don't remember why I stopped, but when I'll reread them, I will not stop. It was fascinating:)

[Jamie]

Definitely the Royal Blood Chronicles by Elizabeth Loraine! I have reread them probably about 4 times now and they never get old :)

[Kasi]

The Demon's Lexicon.

[Adriana]

Twilight Saga and The Mortal Instruments.

[Belyse]

Mercy thompson & vampire academy (+ bloodlines series)

[Jill]

Some books I enjoy even more as I reread them. Sure, you miss out on the suspense of not knowing what will happen next, but you get a whole new set of experiences reading something again. I tend to take it slower since I'm not racing to find out how it all goes down, so I end up seeing a lot of the more subtle nuances of the story itself.

Even though re-reading it is great, I have to say Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli was amazingly emotional for me the first time I read it. I had a solid crying session somewhere around 2 in the morning when I finished it.

I kind of wish I could read Hunger Games again, but knowing beforehand how horribly sad it was going to be. Maybe then I wouldn't have raged over the unfairness of it all quite so much when I was done. :P

And then there are classics that I wish I hadn't been forced to read in high school, therefore tainting my opinions of them prematurely (Dickens, Shakespeare, etc). Reading them again, though, now that I'm older and more appreciative, is kind of like really reading them for the first time.

[Heidi]

I re-read books all the time! One series I wish I could re-read is the Perlandra series by CS Lewis. My child mangled the first two books and I haven't had a chance to buy new ones. (Or the money, for that matter.) I've been itching to re-read Harry Potter now that my youngest is old enough, but have to buy book 2 again (for similar reasons as the above) and we are kind of in the middle of the Lost Heroes Series, so it will have to wait. Wish my kids could sit for hours and read like I do! I'm lucky to get them to sit still for 1 hour when reading. (Which is better than they do when watching TV, so I really shouldn't complain!)

[Jill]

Heidi wrote: "One series I wish I could re-read is the Perlandra series by CS Lewis. My child mangled the first two books and I haven't had a chance to buy new ones."

I plan to read the scifi trilogy by Lewis. I have the books on my to-read shelf. Maybe I'll finally get through them via the dustbuster challenge this year.

I took a C.S. Lewis class in college and we read Peralandra. I didn't actually end up finishing the whole thing, so I would re-read it when I get to it in the series, but the whole thing is so full of beautiful symbolism that it made me go out and buy all three books.

[Donna]

Totally The Watchers by Koontz - was the first book I stayed up all night to read and cried over. Love the paranormal elements in too with Einstein, the dog.

[EmilyRose]

Hunting Lila and The Vampire Academy series :)

[Sam]

LOTR, Imajica by Clive Barker, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, It by SK, every one of TP's Discworld books...

[S.B.]

Twilight! Before all its fame, before it became a movie, I read it and it is seriously what got me back into writing because I realized that you don't have to be some English major big-wig with giant fancy words and phrases to get published. It's all about character development and a plot-driven story (with proper grammar of course). I loved that book and will always love the book. Movie? Not so much. But that book will live with me for always.

[Kristine]

Infernal Devices, Hunger Games, Divergent and Covenant Series!!! :D

[Mercedes]

Harry Potter series and Bartimaeus Series

[Luciana]

Lightning by Dean Kootnz a great blend of time travel with romance and tragedy; Hades Daughter by Sara Douglass, a fantasy based on the mythology of Theseus which follows the life of the characters over a thousand years; Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind, two worlds living side by side without knowing.

[Lanell]

Mine would definitely be The Hunger Games. I was so in love with that series that as soon as I finished, I reread it again. It's not the sane the second time around though.