On books

[hils]

I've been thinking about the conversation I had with woman_of_ on Sunday about books that had an impact on me when I was a teenager. Do you ever go back and read books that you loved or that influenced you only to find that as you've got older they don't fit into your life the way they once did? I don't often read a book more than once because there's so much new stuff out there for me to enjoy, but I've been thinking of going back to some of the books we discussed and now I'm worried I'm somehow going to ruin my teenage memories. What if these books aren't what I remember?

Am I being silly? Should I read the books again or leave them in the past?

*sighs*

Clearly I am watching too much Frasier and it's making me over-analyse everything. LOL. Quick, someone find somethig shallow and meaningless for me to think about ;)

Comments

[danceswithgary]

My bookcases became much less crowded when I began re-reading a while back. More than once I got 1/2 way through something only to go, "what was I thinking?" The books went as donations. *sigh*

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. I'd rather just have the nice memories of enjoying the books rather than thinking 'Wow, I wasted my teenage years reading crap'