Good Book Woes.

[Biker Joe]

I hate it when I come to the end of a good book. It feels like someone snatched my lollipop.

 

[ColinJ]

A friend of mine used to read the final chapter of a potentially Good Book first to decide whether to bother reading it properly!

 

[Paulus]

I know what you mean. There is a sense of loss.

 

[bluenotebob]

Be positive - it's just like finishing a really good ride for the first time. You know you can always go back and do it again - and it might be even better the second time around

Just put the 'good book' on the pile of those that you're going to re-read around Xmas time (or whenever it's too wet to go out)

 

[welsh dragon]

There are some books that i hate getting to the end of so i know what you mean.

 

[ColinJ]

[QUOTE 5300882, member: 43827"]At my age I could re-read a good book every couple of weeks and not realise I'd already read it.
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I read Krabbe's The Rider every 3 or 4 years. I vaguely remember the plot now, but forget the detail and still enjoy reading it each time.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Thought we were talking about The Bible at first.

 

[User169]

I read Krabbe's The Rider every 3 or 4 years. I vaguely remember the plot now, but forget the detail and still enjoy reading it each time.

OFF topic alert!

I rode with a guy from the local university club last weekend which is called "WTOS" (Wij Trainen Ons Suf).

Turns out, it's based on a quote from the Rider where the narrator says "ik train me suf". Literally, "I'm training myself boring" - I think trying to say the focus on training is making him dull. The uni club version is "We train ourselves boring".

Edit: oops - some rather dodgy translation there. It actually means "We train like crazy"!

 

[Drago]

I know what you mean Joe. When Jack Reacher has slapped 6 bad guys all in one go, saved the world, and got jiggy with the heroine, then I want more, more MORE!

 

[Drago]

You dissing Jack Reacher?!

 

[Dave7]

Thought we were talking about The Bible at first.

I read that once a week every week on Mondays.
On Tuesdays I start at Revelation and read it backwards.....that does take a bit longer though.

 

[swansonj]

I read Krabbe's The Rider every 3 or 4 years. I vaguely remember the plot now, but forget the detail and still enjoy reading it each time.

I read books in a different way now. There are books I read when younger essentially for the plot; now I reread them, already knowing the plot, to savour the density and quality of the writing in a way I never appreciated when younger.

 

[swansonj]

See... Enid Blyton goes across the generations.

Enid Blyton? Never heard of her. I do, however (I just counted) have 78 Biggles books on my shelf.

(The first twenty or so are actually quite well written and do bear occasional re-reading)

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Biggles

Never heard of her either

 

[swansonj]

Actually, it is a little known fact that it was at Denbie’s,(the original mansion at the top of the climb up to Ranmore not the winery at the bottom), just down the road from me and passed unknowingly by multiple cyclists out in the Surrey hills every day, that Enid Blyton’s first husband had the affair that they agreed she could use to divorce him, rather than him divorcing her for her affairs with among others their nanny. I was quite chuffed when I found that out and get a vicarious frisson of excitement each time I cycle past.