The risks of re-reading
My latest post is up at the Identity Theory editors blog, about the mental gamble it is to re-read a favorite book:
But re-reading other texts, even ones that provided the same feeling of accomplishment, can be a totally different, even crushing, experience.
I once tried to re-read John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, the book that first got me to love literature. And I couldn’t get through the first chapter. I could hardly believe it. I thought the writing was awful, the characters flat, the premise almost silly.
And it hurt.
“The Risks of Re-Reading”–Identity Theory Editors’ Blog
