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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Not me. When I didn't like something as a child or as a teenager, I never did as an adult either. I guess some people's tastes and preferences change when they get older, but others' don't. I read Les Miserables for the first time when I was 11 or 12 and liked it; the same with The City and the Stars and Jane Eyre; but I didn't like Hemingway then and I didn't like him later either. YMMV, of course.
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The way I look at it is if I didn't like a book or author when I was younger, I'm not going to try again now. There are too many other books to read that I will like. There's no reason to attempt to try to like something I didn't.