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The problem with revisiting favorite books from your teens when you're in your 30s requires no further explanation. Nostalgia fail.
— Mar 25, 2016 06:46PM
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Mar 25, 2016 09:20PM
That lesson, I have learnt it. I hope you didn't ruin anything you were too fond of.
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Miriam wrote: "That lesson, I have learnt it. I hope you didn't ruin anything you were too fond of."My coping mechanism is to try to remember that the fact that my adult self has issues with a book doesn't invalidate the enjoyment I initially had when reading it.
I actually had this experience with Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind; my best friend has insisted for years that the book was terrible. I'm not sure I would call it terrible, but I'm not nearly as enamored of it as I was in middle school.
Admittedly it could be that the romance at the core of the book no longer carries it for me since I realized upon growing up that having wizard babies with the Mother Confessor was not to be on my to-do list.
In that case I do have one wizard baby already.
And you've probably outgrown wanting to be married to someone with dangerous enemies who imperils you.
