I find that a lot of the books that I enjoyed in my childhood and early teens I find completely unbearable four decades later.
Ditto! But then there's great delight when it happens the other way round, as with The Big Time for me this month, or even on those occasions when a fondly remembered book proves, surprisingly, to be every bit as good as one's youthful judgment said it was.
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Date: 2010-07-03 03:38 pm (UTC)Ditto! But then there's great delight when it happens the other way round, as with The Big Time for me this month, or even on those occasions when a fondly remembered book proves, surprisingly, to be every bit as good as one's youthful judgment said it was.