Good books you would never read again.

**~Hestia~** · February 5th, 2012, 01:34 PM

April Fools Day by Bryce Courtenay. I couldn't put it down but it was so heartbreaking I doubt I could read it again!

**STARRYSKY** · February 5th, 2012, 01:37 PM

The City Of Light - Snow town murders...quite disturbing and just too close to home.

also my sisters keeper (Ithrew the book across the room in tears at the last page) and anything by the same author (have read most of them) whose name eludes me at this present moment!

**meow** · February 5th, 2012, 01:56 PM

I very rarely re-read books as once I know the story then I'd rather read something else. Generally I only re-read light, enjoyable fiction like Harry Potter.

I would never read any of the abuse books again, like A Child Called It and Sybil.

**AndiE** · February 5th, 2012, 02:13 PM

Lord of the Rings - a phenomenal read but NEVER again.
And I read it well before the movies were made ... something I've always been a tad introvertly smug about

**AnyDream** · February 5th, 2012, 03:20 PM

AndiE I take great pride in always reading the book first!

**RockingBaker** · February 5th, 2012, 03:56 PM

STARRYSKY you're thinking of Jodi Picoult. Love her work but once is enough.

**nothing2lose** · February 5th, 2012, 03:59 PM

In cold Blood - truman capote - fantastic book. from a journalistic point of view, his research was amazing. but creepy and not really my thang.

I love this book!! The film is good too

**STARRYSKY** · February 5th, 2012, 04:11 PM

Thank you Rb! That is exactly who I mean, totally agree, once and never again!

***TripleJ*** · February 5th, 2012, 04:42 PM

i can read my sisters keeper again i love the ending of that better than the movie ending

im trying to think of ome i wont read again but i love to read books like that over and over im thinking of investing in a kindle

**AnyDream** · August 2nd, 2014, 12:14 AM

Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Fantastic book, but wow, what a convoluted brick of a read.

**Astrolady** · August 3rd, 2014, 04:32 PM

For me everything I read. Because I will never read the same book twice when I have so many other books to read for the first time.

**AnyDream** · August 5th, 2014, 02:45 PM

Good answer. Although I will admit to occasionally re-reading something by accident. I had one recently... I'm SURE I've read this book before, some bits of it were so, so familiar, like I'd seen it all before in my mind's eye, and I remember loving bits of it, like the ideas but also the author's delicious choice of words. I also remember the cover. But other bits of the story, I had no idea of, couldn't predict the ending, etc. I'm assuming I might've read it in my deep, deep sleep deprivation days and so it just didn't encode in my memory? Anyway it's a bit of woo-woo-woo (*mysterious music*) kind of thing, because it's about being plucked out of normal consciousness and into an alternate reality, and that's exactly how I felt while I was reading it. LOL

**Snacks** · August 7th, 2014, 03:55 PM

This Charming Man. Couldn't put it down (I love my chick lit) but damn. Never again.

**luna moth** · August 8th, 2014, 01:48 AM

The Light Between Oceans. For some ridiculous reason I read it when DD2 was tiny. The pain will never leave my heart.

**Dot Face** · August 8th, 2014, 01:50 PM

I have read The Light Between Oceans and would probably read it again in a few years because I enjoy reading books I like (even if they made me cry at crazy hours in the morning, waking dh up lol).