A Look Back was Re: 'Clue to his vulnerability' (Coming to a conclusion )

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> Kathy W:
>  I've no idea what I'll do after book 7.  If it's
> surprising, I might 
> read through one more time to take one more look with an "all 
> knowing" eye. Once the discussions are over, once there's no
> more 
> clues to hunt for, there won't be any reason to keep reading the 
> books. But, I've never read any other set of books so many times 
> before. Although, I do tend to re-read books that I enjoy.

Geoff:
Come now, I'm sure you'll want to read the books again and again. 
Like Christopher Lee, I used to read LOTR every year or two and only 
reduced this when additional books such as "The Silmarillion" and the 
books charting the development of the material began to appear. But 
I've certainly read the story 25-30 times and I still seem to find 
another gold nugget which I had missed in its pages each time I set 
out. And there are other books for which I do the same - in the 
fantasy genre, Alan Garner's two books about Alderley Edge ("The 
Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and "The Moon of Gomrath") and non-fantasy 
such as the Brother Cadfael books by Ellis Peters.

Perhaps I like to tread familiar paths for I have favourite passages 
which sometimes I will read without covering the whole book; I do 
this with Harry as well.