book queues

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As Tina has done, I have sorted my unread books physically into queues: fiction (or other fun reading), non-fiction, fiction I've read once, didn't like, but should read again, and books to sell or otherwise dispose of.

There are sixteen books in the fiction pile, nine in the non-fiction pile, five in the to-read-again pile, and six to dispose of.

Of the fiction pile, I am probably actually wanting to read about half of that. The other half is stuff I ought to read, but am not very enthused about.

More books are en route through amazon, too.

I guess I'd better get cracking. First up: Siddartha, by Hermann Hesse.

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[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

My dear, why in the WORLD would you waste precious hours of your life rereading books you already know you don't like?

[tyopsqueene.livejournal.com]

what owlet said - I mean, it's bad enough forcing yourself to read books you know you'll hate because you feel you "ought" to - but reading them TWICE?

Tell us what they are - maybe we're read 'em, and can confirm your first impressions, thus saving you the bother :)

[pecosy.livejournal.com]

I understand re-reading books you didn't like. If they're books that everyone else seems to love, I like to give them another chance. Sometimes I appreciate them more the second time, and other times I don't bother to finish. If nothing else, it reminds me why I didn't like it, so when someone says "How can you not like it?" I'm ready with the snappy comeback...

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[yuda.livejournal.com]

I've been known to re-read books that I was forced to read in high school or an unpleasant college course and subsequently didn't like. On the second reading, I often found them better. Sometimes the circumstances color your perception.

Ultimately, though, I really don't have time to be re-reading books I didn't love, as there's plenty of other things to read that I haven't already read once.

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[clickie]

Well, I re-read Lolita, because I'd read it years ago and was too young to appreciate it then. It is a really great book, and if I hadn't been willing to give it a second chance, I would've missed out on one of the great novels in English literature. Ditto The Handmaid's Tale.

Books in that re-read pile: I can only remember offhand that Beloved is in there.

[yuda.livejournal.com]

You should give yourself a queue of books you know you like, just to break up the pain.

My dad's a big fan of Siddhartha, so I assume it must be mind-numbingly boring.

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[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

It is, but it's blessedly short.

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[kmonkeyjam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Virgil loved it, if that says something. Didn't you have to read it in High School? I know I did. But that may have been the year Mrs. Sipe changed everything around.

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[clickie]

The problem is that I've already re-read all the books I like in my house like 10 times each, and am wholly sick of them all. I have fortified the fiction pile with books I think I'll like, to increase the number of trustworthy companion books in future, but for now, I am at a books-I-like crisis.

[kmonkeyjam.livejournal.com]

An idea for the books you want to get rid of is Book Crossing.

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[asd109.livejournal.com]

I demand a list of all of the books.

Ah, mysteries explained then.

[(Anonymous)]

*liked Demian and Steppenwolf*

I'll read your Hesse if you'll read my Harry Pratchett.