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I love Wodehouse too.

the british must have done a comedy series based on the jeeves books by now.

Thanks BunWat, Joanne, and Michele. I will definitely have to check into them.

Welcome to TC, Yesha!

Michele wrote: "the british must have done a comedy series based on the jeeves books by now."

I have a DVD of Fry and Laurie doing Jeeves and Wooster. It is hilarious.

I've reread 'The Belgariad' and the first 'Riftwar' trilogy more times than I can remember. When I was in my teens I used to read 'The Lord of the Rings' at least once a year. Problem is there is still so much that I want to read and have on the shelf waiting to be reread I don't really reread much anymore.

Michele wrote: "the british must have done a comedy series based on the jeeves books by now."

They did in the late 80s and/or early 90s with Hugh Laurie (House) as Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. As Kate mentioned above you can get it on DVD.

You can rent Jeeves and Wooster on Netflix.

No way! House as Wooster?? I have to see this.

@jaimie: On Netflix. I will search it, and queue it.

Sigh! I'm about to break my word. I'm going to read a book I've listened to on audio. (after saying I don't re-read). But it's a Christmas book (A Redbird Christmas), it's a December read for a group I'm in, and it is soooo worth it.

Hugh Laurie was very active with a common group of comedians in the UK in the 80s. He was fantastic as the Prince Regent in Blackadder 3. He played a Leiutenant in Blackadder goes Forth. He also had a sketch show called 'A little bit of Fry and Laurie' with Stephen Fry.

Wow! I knew he was an English actor way before we (in the States) ever saw him, but didn't know how extensively.

I've actually seen a couple of things he was in. (Can't remember names/titles to save my life). I was shocked the first time I heard him speak live (with the accent and no limp). I think he's a great actor.

Just shocked (maybe impressed is the better word) that he's in comedy.

That's how we got to know him. He worked a lot with the guy that wrote Notting Hill and Love Actually. It was more of a surprise to me (and I guess quite a few british people) that he was House and not playing the well meaning but bungling idiot...

Huh. Isn't that wierd? I find it interesting how 2 people can view the same person (actor, in this case) and come away with 2 totally different perspectives based on their "interactions".

Wierd of me, I know, but I enjoy quirky little things like that.

I loved Blackadder. I got the dvds from my library and watched it again recently.

Books. Books. Books.

and more books.

It should be "book, book, book"

The punch line is "read-it read-it read-it"

It's the joke about a chook that goes to the library...oh never mind it wasn't funny anyway.

Hee!

King Dinösaur wrote: "I reread Mark Twain a lot. I reread comics and graphic novels all the time. Any book that has struck me as particularly poignant or important to my own life I reread - Saul Bellow's "Henderson Th..."

How funny! My old man mentioned those as books he liked in his youth so I've begun collecting them for my own little boy to read in a year or two. I read the first one and it was better than I expected. So far we have that one and the Stuttering parrot one, which my hubby says is the best one.

I rarely reread. Exceptions are Somerset Maugham and John Galsworthy, and a handful of modern novels. Sandra Gulland's josephine trilogy I've read twice. Amy Ephron's "a cup of tea" but I liked it less the second time. Ellen Feldman's "Lucy." Josephine Tey's "Daughter of Time." Olive Burns "Cold Sassy Tree." Harper Lee's "mockingbird." Katherine mosby's "private altars." Any of PG Wodehouse's "Bertie and Jeeves" books except the one that isn't first-person from Bertie because that one isn't funny. I accidentally reread a Dick Francis because I got two-thirds of the way through it before I realized I'd been there before.

I reread Harry Potter quite a bit, along with the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I also will reread certain sections of Jane Eyre and Les Mis (I've got my favorite parts of the latter marked up with sticky notes so I don't have to go flipping through all the book, which is kind of big, to find them).

This year I re-read 2 books. Ethan Frome and Out of the Silent Planet.

I think i have read the Hitchiker's guide series so many times i can probably quote it more often than not.

But other rereads tend to be books i read as i grew up and into my teens......the stories are so much different as an adult. Sometimes not for the better though.

I would have probably met my goal of 75 new books this year, if I didn't re-read so much. Although most of my revisits this year were audiobooks.

I re-read Harry Potter and all of Jane Austen once a year, HP in the summer, Austen in the fall/winter. It's a tradition I've inadvertently developed. I also re-read several Stephen King books and a few essay collections this year. I love to enjoy something I know I already like, even when there are hundreds of unread books just waiting for me. I'm the same with movies; I re-watch the ones I love best more often than I watch new ones. I guess I like the comfort of it.

Tradition, or OCD?

Toe-MAY-toe, toe-MAH-toe.

I only re-read and re-watch a very, very tiny number of works. Pride & Prejudice, book and miniseries being the primary one. And even P&P I've only read I think 3 times. In 2012 I will probably reread Jane Eyre and The Raj Quartet.

Phil wrote: "Tradition, or OCD?

Toe-MAY-toe, toe-MAH-toe."

Probably a little of both. This has only developed in the last 3 years, so it's not a fully-fledged tradition yet, just the possible start of one. It's a comfort thing mostly.

I reread: Lora Leigh, Laurell Hamilton, Iris Johanssen, Elizabeth Lowell, Ann Bishop, Ilona Andrews, the Riley Jensen novels, J.R.Ward, Julie Garwood, Catherine Coulter, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, John Dickson Clark, Laurie King's Mary Russell novels, Lara Adrian, Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy series, David Eddings, Jim Butcher's Dresden files, Patricia Briggs, Angela Knight, Marjorie Liu...anyone who tells a good story.

When I was younger, I would never reread anything, life was too short, everything had to be done once and the lure of the unread was strong. Now, relative maturity has brought a search for quality, making me keep all my 4 and 5 star books in case I want to open them later. Usually I don't reread the whole thing, just skim the plot by focusing on my favorite passages. The ones I reread often, like The Touch, are not necessarily the best books I have ever read, but the ones that emotionally impacted me the most.

Welcome to TC Natalya.

started rereading jayne ann krentz again. it's been 2 or 3 years since I read the series. I have most of everything she wrote.

I reread "In Cold Blood" as well and found it even more chilling this time than I did when I was 20.

I reread TKAM a couple years ago. I'm going to reread In Cold Blood soon. If not this year, next year.

I re-read a lot of books. Basically, if I give it 4 or 5 stars, I will be re-reading it sooner or later, once or more than once.

Jammies wrote: "I re-read a lot of books. Basically, if I give it 4 or 5 stars, I will be re-reading it sooner or later, once or more than once."

Yay Jammies! That's about how I feel too.

*beams at Amber*

I have a fair number of books that I've partly read. Most of these are from university. I'm rereading some of these, but I don't count it as a reread. I don't put them on my shelf of books I've read more than once.

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: " Why own books, if you're not going to reread them? "

I like to own a book if at any point in the future I think I'll want to crack it open and read limited passages from it, or refer to it in some way.

OR, if I know it's going to be a really dense and interesting read and I want to mark up the book. So I wouldn't necessarily call that a reread, but the book will contain my underlinings or annotations, so it can't be a library book.

Comfort books, LotR, The Hobbit, Jane Eyre, Harry Potter, Great Expectations...any Jane Austen. I expect I will reread The Hinger Games if I ever get them all back.

For some reason, I've reread THE BELL JAR many, many times. I think the humor and satire, oddly enough, comes out more and more with each read. I've also reread Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN series a whole bunch of times. Just brilliant. And then there's CATCHER IN THE RYE, which I've probably read twenty times. It was the book that began my love of reading.

Amelia wrote: "Comfort books, LotR, The Hobbit, Jane Eyre, Harry Potter, Great Expectations...any Jane Austen. I expect I will reread The Hinger Games if I ever get them all back."

The Hinger Games.

The story of a cadre of young door installers roaming from city to city, challenging each other in a series of hinge related activities.

Every December since I was six years old, I have made it a point to read C.S Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia"

These books have always been one of my favorite children's series....and there's just something about them that practically begs to be read during winter....gotta say my favorite in the series though is "The Silver Chair" Always loved Puddleglum...he kind of reminds me of myself ;)

*sigh+

Can't correct on the phone app...

I've never re-read a book, although I still keep my favourite ones! I suppose I like the suspense, although this isn't my approach to movies, some of which I've re-seen many times!

Amelia wrote: "*sigh+

Can't correct on the phone app..."

I like the sigh+.

I have reread The Iliad, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, numerous novels by Dickens, The Handmaid's Tale, Swan Song, A Wrinkle in Time quartet, Burn My Heart At Wounded Knee, Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller.
I suspect I will reread Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood along with some of the nature writers I was recommended to read a few years back.

I have reread all of the Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon books many times.

I have never read any of the Gables. Watched the movie. Many times. I should read them. I forgot to include the Little House books.

The books are of course so much better. They change things...lots of things once you get past the first book. It's so much fuller and richer...if you can imagine that...

I like Emily of New Moon even better (only 3 books in that series). I just relate to her more. She's a little more reserved than Anne.

I think I have new "to reads"!