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econobeing
05-19-2009, 12:05 PM
... that you understand or "get" more of the more times you read through it?

I'm wondering if anybody else felt that way about it. I read the first 70 or so pages, then picked it up again and started over about 6 months later, and in those 70ish pages it seemed as though more stuff/references made sense related to other things.

Things that you "get" more as you read/watch/listen to it more are interesting to me. Like 12 Oz. Mouse. Everybody I know hates that show. But I've made a few of my friends sit down and watch the whole thing, and when it was done, they were amazed.

12 Oz. Mouse is a show where you understand more of the dialogue/visual cues/etc in the show the more times you watch it. Just on my 3rd or 4th time through it I found out that Spider is C.J. Muff (if anybody even knows what I'm talking about or has seen the show).

If HoL is like that, I may have to read through it again.

Ellimist
05-19-2009, 01:17 PM
What?

Ellimist
05-19-2009, 06:30 PM
Hey, moved. Thanks, nikh.

You rock.

LJonesy
05-20-2009, 02:20 AM
... that you understand or "get" more of the more times you read through it?

Things that you "get" more as you read/watch/listen to it more are interesting to me...

If HoL is like that, I may have to read through it again.

Yes.

consider us dead
05-21-2009, 12:30 PM
Yes.
In theory

Paradiso
05-21-2009, 07:15 PM
It may simply confuse you more.
It certainly gets heavier each time I read it though.
And by heavy, I mean it carries more gravity each time.

hapax
05-22-2009, 04:44 PM
And I thought you meant that you'd made so many notes in the margins that the weight of the ink had actually become noticeable... :P

HoL has made more sense with rereads for me, at least.