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Rereading old books 'enhances the experience'...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9084394/Rereading-old-books-enhances-the-experience.html
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There are some authors you can read over and over and still be delighted; others you read once, and that is enough.Either the plot is simple, so you know what will happen, or the characters are one-dimensional, and knowing what happens to them leaves you nothing else to learn.
I recently re-read Persuasion: haven't read it since A level, and I had totally forgotten how it was written, under the sway of TV adaptations I suppose. Nothing like as sparkling as P&P, rather heavy on the tell, don't show! (It would never find an agent today...)
nothing is ever exactly the same, you always get something different back