I've been doing a complete re-read one or twice a year since I started the series in '97. This will probably slow down to once every two years after the release of AMOL. That said, and the "shoddy TOR covers" taken into account, I have probably purchased teotw 10+ times

Edited August 25, 201114 yr by vanceme

Ive lost track of how often i have reread the series couldnt even guess!

Each time a new book comes out I usually read it in about 24 hours (staying up all night and even taking the next day off if I need to). I then re-read it a bit slower (about a week) straight after that.

 

Also, before each book comes out I do a complete re-read of the series and usually again after the second read of the latest release (and that's not counting the times I have re-read just for fun). I have a couple of exceptions to this rule because my cat shredded my copies of tEotW and tGH a few years back but I practically knew them by heart by then so I haven't replaced them... yet.

 

At the moment I am doing a bit of an inventory because all of my books are in paperback form and being so well loved and receiving pretty hard use over the years, some of them are starting to lose pages etc. if they haven't already. Obviously the later books are in better condition. So my plan is to purchase hard cover and audio versions of each book before the release of AMoL next year. I'm getting the audio versions just to get my kids into the series because being 9 and 11 year old boys, reading 13 books averaging 6-800 pages each sends them running for the hills. They just can't seem to get past the Captain Underpants series at the moment, they think it's hilarious. I've bought them a Roald Dahl pack of books and surprisingly my youngest is getting into them so the plan is to subject them to the audio books to create interest and expand their minds. Not to mention that I'll listen to them when doing the dreaded housework.

I'm on my second read and I see no reason to stop anytime soon.

I've been through 8 times up to KoD (it was very conveniently released when I was up to CoT in my first time through). I've read tGS twice and ToM once which bugs me, so for the first time ever I'm going to cheat and just read those 2 to try and catch up a bit. It's something I dislike doing, when I re-read, I re-read completely.

 

I doubt I'll ever stop reading them.

 

I'm in full WoT addict mode at the moment, which I suspect is due to the proximity of aMoL. I finished a full re-read about 2 weeks ago, now I'm doing tGS and ToM again then I strongly suspect I'll go straight back to EoTW, just can't get enough of it at the moment (hence I'm up at 3am haunting DM.)

 

I have a couple of exceptions to this rule because my cat shredded my copies of tEotW and tGH a few years back

Haha, I hear ya there! when he was about 2 months old, my dog (the aptly named Terror,) decided my copy of KoD looked decidedly tasty. Little bugger, I could have killed him! Though at least he was considerate enough to start at the back and not go any further than the Glossary!

Edited August 27, 201114 yr by Louii

I'm not sure I will re-read after AMoL; it's just too time consuming with all the other stuff I want to get read. If there were more books coming, then yeah I might. Re-reading say the Belgariad is no big deal, but 13 books? Oy vey.. heh.

I read the entire series once a year since 1999 or so to keep up my reading speed. It usually takes 4 days or so, 12-16 hours a day, the first 3 I usually finish in one day.

4 days? are you bionic?

 

i have a general side question - is there any book/series that anyone has re-read more than the WOT?

 

i'll start - lord of the rings, little house series... probably a few others.

4 days? are you bionic?

 

i have a general side question - is there any book/series that anyone has re-read more than the WOT?

 

i'll start - lord of the rings, little house series... probably a few others.

 

LoTR, Belgariad,to the High Redoubt,Lords of Dus...among others.

i have a general side question - is there any book/series that anyone has re-read more than the WOT?

 

i'll start - lord of the rings, little house series... probably a few others.

Nope, I think my record ouside WoT is 2 or 3 times, whenever I feel like re-reading something WoT always gets the nod!