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Originally Posted by JDK1962
In the book A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel wrote something I always liked, and that was that we as individuals read everything through the lens of what we've read before. The implication is that no two people experience any book in the same way.
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I would even like to expand that ... not only do we read through the lens of what we have read before, but also there is the additional lens of what we have experienced in our lives before, so that a book with a particular topic or written in a particular style might appeal strongly to one reader whereas the other cannot relate to it at all.