It's more about reliving that experience you felt when reading that book then it is about just reading it again. At least that's how it is for me which is why there are only certain books i will read more then once.

What The Villain said, but also, the experience can change with multiple readings. Why listen to an album twice? Or watch a movie twice? It's the same thing.

not really it takes me many many hours to get through a book.alot of precious hours off my short life

I can empathize with you on this. Haven't read any books, or more precisely novels, twice myself, but I frequently read short stories two or more times as I come across them in anthologies. It's surprising how you can enjoy them all over again especially if you don't recall all the specifics. However I've decided to skip Murray Leinster's "First Contact" if I ever come face to face with it again as the punch has now lost its fizz. Poems, too, I like to read over and over. There are some books I'd like to read again, books I read thirty, forty years ago just to see if they're as good as I remember them.

now that you say that i have read some short stories again out of the books of blood,those are the best short stories iv ever read

The main reason I started my re-read of IT this time is because of the news that IT is going to the big screen. There are some major parts that got left out of the miniseries and I want to see if was a good reason for it, would it be that difficult to add those parts. It's geeky, I know, but then I really don't give a sh*t, lol.

Maybe I'm gonna have to give BOOKS OF BLOOD a try. If they're that good I might make it one of my Halloween reads when October returns.

they are awsome man,that was when barker was writing his best weird fuct up shit.give you an example of one of the stories...a guy gets a hormone viagra type drug tested on him,it goes wrong and he becomes a sex freak raping any man or lady in his way,has to fuck a crack in a brick wall to keep him satisfied while hes looking for his next fuck..

Sounds like a dark alley in the scenic route through October country. Gonna put in on my Halloween TBR pile for sure. Thanks.

I'm with Villain and fortunato I've read several Clive Barker books twice or more same with some of my other favourite books. I've also read HP Lovecraft short stories and also some poetry repeatedly depends on my mood I suppose.

Right now I'm reading an ebook of IT-I can't read paperbacks anymore without my specs and they give me a headache plus I couldn't pass an optical examination.