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

[summer-moth.livejournal.com]

I read reeeeeeeeally fast, & if I like something I have to own it & I pretty much always re-read it. My main problem in life is remembering to stop reading & do all those other important things that are waiting to be done. Sometimes I re-read a book I loved after a gap of a few years & still love it but it means something different to me because I've changed...I did that with Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land - I'd always read my parents' copy so when I left home I didn't read it for several years, then bought it last year & suddenly understood it on a completely different level!

[summer-moth.livejournal.com]

Which is basically me saying I think you'll be ok if you re-read stuff :-)

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Thanks!

[hils.livejournal.com]

That's the other side of it I guess. There's a chance I'll get more out of it now than I did when I was a teenager