New research released today to mark the run-up to the next Costa Book Awards reveals that 77% of UK readers have enjoyed a book so much the first time that they’ve gone back to read it again! The research shows that well over a quarter (29%) of those surveyed admitted they have re-read a book at least twice, 27% three times and 12% four times. Almost a fifth (17%) have re-read the same tome more than five times!
Topping the poll is JK Rowling’s spectacularly popular Harry Potter series, followed closely in second place by JRR Tolkien’s sweeping Lord of the Rings epic and in third place Jane Austen’s quintessential love story, Pride and Prejudice.
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There are a million books that we’ll never have the chance to read, due mainly to human expectancy, yet we always go back to the books that make us think/feel/relax.
Books are as subjective as any other form of art, thus it seems only fair that we go back to a novel as we do a painting or a song or photograph.
I’ve read the Quiet American 5 times, not because it is my favourite book, but because I like to get lost in the period.
Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter, and my life a wee bit longer, I could happily read it a dozen times. Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first.
Perhaps if Anna Karenina was a wee bit shorter i’d be immersed in Russia. Either way, a book is a journey, and some are as beautiful the forth time as they were the first.