It's wonderful that you got that feeling from reading this book, Voronwë. It didn't do it for me, but other books have, of course, most notably LOTR.Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:It's actually been quite some time already since that third read even, Mossy, so I can't really say. Except that the richness of the story was even more evident. No, that's not quite right. It's not "the story" as in the "plot" or the "characters" or any of those traditional literary components. Its just that the whole thing is so rich. It's not like reading a book. It's like being inside of it.
A friend of mine thinks I'm nuts for reading books over and over. But if a book only deserves one reading, by my measure it's not a very good book! I explained to her that if you buy a CD you don't just listen to it once, put it away and say, Gee, that was good. You don't buy a painting, look at it once, and then put it in the cupboard.
I never buy a book until I know it's worth another reading. I've read many of my books 100 times, without exaggeration. Each time is "going" to that world and enjoying it. It might be the great beauty of Middle Earth or the more mundane but just as interesting world of Avonlea, PEI.
And I can pick up a book of Gary Larson cartoons, and laugh as much as I did the first time.