Comments on: MIND MELD: How to Avoid The Suck Fairy of Re-Reads http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/ A Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy blog featuring news, interviews, reviews, points of view and fun stuff. Thu, 26 May 2016 01:15:24 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.3 By: Larry Ketchersid http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/#comment-142664 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:47:39 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=96312#comment-142664 I rarely want to spend time re-reading as there are too many books for a lifetime. But I am currently re-reading Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, for two reasons: I remember enjoying it immensely when I read it decades ago, but I cannot remember it; and it has been announced that a new trilogy called The Last King of Osten Ard will be released, a sequel to this original.

This time I’m taking notes.

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By: James Davis Nicoll http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/#comment-142616 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:37:36 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=96312#comment-142616 “I don’t know the other two people so I will credit their work to the person I do know, the person who went out of her way to make sure proper credit was given” is a very bold strategy.

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By: Paul (@princejvstin) http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/#comment-142614 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:19:21 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=96312#comment-142614 I don’t know those antecedents, James. Sorry.

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By: James Davis Nicoll http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/#comment-142603 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 05:08:18 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=96312#comment-142603 Q: Let’s talk about Jo Walton’s “Suck fairy”.

Can anyone here explain to me what Jo meant when she said in the first paragraph of the article you link to I believe I’ve mentioned the Suck Fairy a few times here but without ever discussing her in depth. I first heard of her in a panel on re-reading at Anticipation, when Naomi Libicki explained her to the rest of us. Naomi has since said she heard of her from her friend Camwyn.?

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By: StephenB http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/#comment-142597 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:03:53 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=96312#comment-142597 I’m not a habitual re-reader, but I do it sometimes. A couple of weeks ago I reread The Witches of Karres for the first time in at least 30 years. I think I enjoyed it as much as ever but I’m a more analytical reader now, and I noticed aspects of it that escaped me before. The only other sf classic I’ve reread recently wasThe End of Eternity, which I didn’t like at all this time around. I read a lot of Asimov when I was a kid, quite uncritically, liked it well enough but he was never a favorite. I should check out some of his short stories again. (I only started reading sf again a few years ago, after virtually quitting in my mid20s/the early ’80s.)

These days when I re-read it’s likely to be Patrick O”Brian or Donald E. Westlake or one of a few other writers of intelligent, well plotted suspens/adventure fiction.

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By: Splicer http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/#comment-142590 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:19:10 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=96312#comment-142590 Dune: Read it multiple times and can read it multiple times more. Not so with any of the others in the series (maybe God Emperor).

LOTR: Don’t remember how many times I’ve read this. The thing is that I like the pacing of the movies better than the books. Tolkien was not good at doing that alternating chapters thing.

Animal Farm: I read this once a year. For me, better than 1984 in every way.

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By: David Greybeard http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/#comment-142589 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:17:58 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=96312#comment-142589 Suck-Fairy be damned.

Re-read books? Ha! Maybe when I finish up the 1,000+ books on my To-Be-Read Shelf.

I’ve only re-read 4 books (Gateway, Three Hearts and Three Lions, Lord of the Rings and Wuthering Heights) in my lifetime.

There are books I wouldn’t mind re-reading but I never seem to find the time to do so.

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By: Steve Oerkfitz http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/#comment-142584 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:07:30 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=96312#comment-142584 Reread Asimov’s Caves of Steel last year. Liked it as a teenager, but 45 years later I found it pretty much unreadable. Terrible writing, bad dialogue(esp the conversations with the son & wife).

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By: steve davidson http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/07/mind-meld-how-to-avoid-the-suck-fairy-of-re-reads/#comment-142583 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:46:28 +0000 http://www.sfsignal.com/?p=96312#comment-142583 I fear no suck fairies!

I’ve a large library and a long history of reading and my solution to avoiding the suck fairy is (lean in so I can whisper this) I own the sacred scrolls of Nhosuck, Guardian of Youthful Memories, Preserver of Ancient Beliefs and Protector of the Senile and Cognitively impaired. The scrolls contain the sacred incantation that can drive Suck Fairies back to the hell pits from which they issue forth in screaming agony (if not making them spontaneously combust in screaming agony) and that incantation is: “Thou shalt only re-read those books that one has previously re-read and re-enjoyed before!”.

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