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Originally Posted by BelleZora
Several of my friends (all elderly like me) speak disparagingly of any book popular with young people now although none has ever read any of these books.
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"Everything was better in the old days", probably.
Try telling that to my (late) grandma, who lived through World War I, AND World War II (both in The Netherlands, a few miles from the German border). She was born in 1906, and died in 1994.
If one of us (or other young people) who thought that they knew the past dared to say "Everything was better back then", my grandma would reply "Only if you were not there".
I'm glad I didn't live between 1914-18 and 1939-45, to start with. For me, "Everything was better back then" is mostly about computers (that were new to me in the 80's, and now are just commonplace), and music from the 50-60's. That's about it.
There's so much stuff available now that was not there back then, *including* stuff to read. So, I just pick the things I like, both from "back then", and "now".
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The squeals when Taylor Lautner took off his shirt were fun and brought happy memories of being sixteen.
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Lautner? *googles* Uhm... Yeah. I can imagine. That's one good looking guy at just 22; and that's coming from a man.
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I am very relieved that, if they ever read 50 Shades, they will most likely never wish to discuss it with me.
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I can see my grandma purposfully reading 50 Shades and ask my sister if that's the normal way of doing "things" nowadays; had she lived at this time and been around 80 or so...
She might step into a roller coaster at 85, just because you said she shouldn't, so don't even *think* about suggesting *not* to read 50 Shades of Gray. She was that kind of a woman. She refused to get old ("What? Ask to sit in a bus? Ask help filling ou tthis form? Only old people do that!"... at 84...), and did new stuff as much as possible, but her aging body caugt up with her in the end.