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Post by kimbob87 on May 12, 2014 13:09:01 GMT
Afternoon everyone As I was getting my blog back up and running ( booksteaandallthingsme.blogspot.co.uk/ little plug there :-D) I started thinking about which book/s I wish I could read again for the first time, you know the ones I mean, the ones that grab you at the very first page and don't let go till the end of the book or in some cases the end of the series and in some more extreme cases they stay with you forever. I had a think about all the books I have read throughout my 27 years and the book that I kept coming back to was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, don't get me wrong I still re-read the book but it will never be the same as when I first picked it up and opened the first page and read the first line " Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense". So which books do you wish you could read again for the first time?? xx
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Post by pinkmad17 on May 12, 2014 13:46:58 GMT
Oh good question Kim. Loving the blog name too! For me this would probably be The Fault In Our Stars or anything with a similar theme. I will most likely read it again but I'm always going to know how it ends and it'll never end differently as much as I'd like it to!
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Post by kimbob87 on May 12, 2014 14:02:20 GMT
Thank you, I think the blog name sums me up I think The Fault In Our Stars is a close second after Harry Potter, but like you say, we know the ending and nothing is going to change that
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Post by thereadingrat on May 13, 2014 20:11:27 GMT
What a great question! Although not ya, (though it is a coming of age vampire novel!) I wish I could read Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite again. She has such a vivid, beautiful way of writing, she can make me feel the grit on sweaty skin, the taste of alcohol (or blood) on my tongue. No one else can write so beautifully about such dark horrifying things. I'd love to be able to feel that surprise for the first time. It's been over ten years since I bought this novel and I remember distinctly sitting on the 'pole' at new street station, opening it to the first page and feeling that 'thing' in the pit of my stomach that tells me this is going to be good, it's going to change my way of reading forever.
Northern Lights was probably one of the first 'kids' books I read as an adult when I first became a bookseller. It opened my eyes to a whole knew world and it was so exciting and different, I'd been reading lots of urban fantasy and paranormal romance before that and really needed something different.
I could go on...but I won't lol! Andi
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