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Originally Posted by beppe
Yes. I share this. I read it the first time when I was very young, in my early teens. What did I know about ... but still it left signs in me.
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AK has an incomparable depth, and the prose ... One can open it at random and be captured in the story again and again.<snip>
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I think this will be the same for me. I wonder if the enjoyment of classical literature is related to exposure? I am having trouble to explain this. I mean, I have friends that just can't understand why characters in the older books act or say what they do. They feel it is "stupid" or "not realistic" or just boring that there is not a lot of action. As a child we were read stories by the teacher in the classroom from the "classics" and we discussed them. This began in early elementary and continued even through HS as we read parts and discussed them. I noticed in my son's early school years that this was not done and "fun" stories were chosen to be read. It was not until late elementary and only in the advanced section that classic works were assigned. I had to start his exposure to those works myself when he was younger. The same was true for classical music.
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Shōgun is a very fine saga. Nicely written also. I reread it a few times, but its genre has been inflation-ed, both by books and by films. It would not be so vivid now.
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Now, I have to rethink if I wish to reread this. I have such vivid memories also and do not wish to change that feeling.