Comments on: OOPS I READ IT AGAIN…. http://simontrewin.com/2007/11/09/oops-i-read-it-again/ Literary Agent Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ross Quirk http://simontrewin.com/2007/11/09/oops-i-read-it-again/#comment-26 Ross Quirk Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:44:12 +0000 http://simontrewin.com/2007/11/09/oops-i-read-it-again/#comment-26 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. 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.

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