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Originally Posted by HarryT
Hope you don't mind, X - I've added an option to the poll for the other option - that I re-read a book I used to think was awful, and now think it's great!
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I have experienced this many times, actually. Some books we perhaps aren't ready for at a certain point in our lives, or sometimes it is simply a case of wrong timing. I find that whenever I am doing heavy reading for school, a "heavy" novel is just too much for me; when I pick up the same novel again when I have more free time, I find I enjoy it much more.
That said, sometimes the reverse is true. I loved "A Handmaid's Tale" (Atwood) when I was in secondary school, and read it several times during that period. When I picked it up again many years later, it wasn't terrible but... it was sort of meh. In fact, there are old favourites of mine that I would like re-read after having not read them in many years, but I am hesitant to, as I don't want to ruin my fond memories of them. Perhaps I am getting too critical as I get older? Maybe after not having picked up a certain book in a while I put it on a pedestal, only to knock it down with my high expectations?