What book would you want to be able to read again for the first time?
This was a very interesting question I saw from actually a few blogs that got me thinking. As I start rattling off the mounds of stories and books that I have gone through in the past. There are a mere few that really stick out to both be shocking to me or have an astounding effect on my life in one way or another. Here is what they are…
Dracula by Bram Stoker this is the book that got me addicted to reading everything about the characters and the whole setting just drove home with me. I loved everything about it, romance, horror, manipulation and empathy, this story had it all and then some..
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This book was given to us in school to read, which in all reality was kind of a no no by the school district but the teacher we had did not follow rules very well..lol Good thing too because this story was absolutely phenomenal. I loved the symbolism and the idealism that portrayed what our future was going to look like. Amazingly enough where we are now is remarkably close to where the book goes..
A Rose for Emily by William Faulker. This was a short story but it had a twisted sense of horror that made the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. I loved it the same teacher who made us read Fahrenheit also had us read this. You feel so sorry for poor Emily until the very end when you are hit in the face with a realization that you never really saw coming.. Awesome story..
So there they are my choices for my second first reads.. Tell me what are yours, if you had to chose any books to read again for the first time, what would they be??
I don’t really read books a second time. There are so many out there that I want to read, I feel like I shouldn’t spend time reading books I’ve already read, you know? I guess if I had to choose, I’d choose a memoir–Angela’s Ashes or The Glass Castle. I love memoirs
Angelas Ashes was a wonderful book I am usually not one for memoirs but that was mesmerizing and may I say quite addicting.
Usually I tend not to read a book twice either unless it was something that really struck me, because there is always something you miss. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield was like this the book suprised me so much that I had to read it again..
Although there is one book I have a damnable addicition too in which I have spoke of above and thats Dracula by Bram Stoker. I have an OCD problem when it comes to that book, every time I see a pretty edition put out I want to buy it..lol