I haven’t quite got to them yet, but I’m rapidly approaching the last four books of The Wheel of Time, which I’d never read before.
I first started the series as a kid when Lord of Chaos (book 6) was just released (1994 I think). From there I read them as they were released, often re-reading the series to refresh my memory. By the time book 11 came out I was in medical school and no longer had time to read it straight away. When Robert Jordan died about two years later, I lost all enthusiasm, thinking the story would never be finished, so what was the point? Of course, Brandon Sanderson later took up the torch and finished the series, but I just never got around to going back to it.
This year I’ve been listening to the audiobooks and I’m nearly at the end of book 10. The first half or more of the series was a great nostalgia trip, as I’d read them so many times and it really just felt comfortable. The further I go, the less I remember, as I only read those books the once. Now I’m nearly up to material that is entirely new to me and is also (apparently) when the story starts to pick up pace again after the glacial middle books. I can’t wait.
They do the same thing in their narration of Wheel of Time. It drives me bananas