Do you think your reading tastes evolve - Page 3

VaporPunk · 06-12-2012, 04:05 AM

Answering the OP, hells yes! But some loves do linger, especially fantasy.

A little OT but movies, anyone? I remember watching Logan's Run when I was like 9 years old and thought it was the gosh-darndest greatest piece of cinema evah. And then saw it again like 20 years later and spent the whole time gagging and deeply confused as to how this was ever allowed to be seen by the viewing public. It was utter crap!

5thWiggle · 06-12-2012, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by VaporPunk

A little OT but movies, anyone? I remember watching Logan's Run when I was like 9 years old and thought it was the gosh-darndest greatest piece of cinema evah. And then saw it again like 20 years later and spent the whole time gagging and deeply confused as to how this was ever allowed to be seen by the viewing public. It was utter crap!

Yes, but you were a 9 year old boy and the movie had Farrah Fawcett in it! Farrah Fawcett + young male + lasers + explosions = great cinema! You must have had the posters, right?

I remember seeing Damnation Alley after reading the book by Roger Zelazny. I vowed never to watch anything starring Geoge Peppard or Jan Micheal Vincent ever again (though they had nothing to do with the script). However, being a young male , I was quite willing to forgive Dominque Sanda.

DMB · 06-12-2012, 09:17 AM

Some of my tastes have changed and some haven't. Until I was about 14, I read children's books like Biggles. But when I was about 14 I felt like Alice when she could suddenly get through the door. For me it was the door to the adult world that opened and I began to appreciate literature. Throughout the rest of my teens and my 20s I was energetically trying to catch up on the classics. I still like a lot of those books.

In my 20s I read a lot of modern serious literary fiction. I also began reading the occasional whodunnit and Georgette Heyer for relaxation. That set the patttern until my mid to late 40s. I gradually went off most serious fiction and read more and more non-fiction, interspersed with the odd bit of escapism, as before.

I'm pretty much unchanged now, although I do perhaps do a bit more re-readng than I used to. Things you read at 17 seem subtly different when you are 70+.

QuantumIguana · 06-12-2012, 09:35 AM

Farrah Fawcett had only a bit role in Logan's Run. By the time it came on TV, Farrah Fawcett was a major celebrity, so the promos for the TV airing touted her as a co-star. I don't think Logan's Run was crap. Dated, yes, but not crap. I do think that the attempts to look futuristic just looked corny after a few years.

Penforhire · 06-12-2012, 06:04 PM

How about cartoons? When I was little I thought Speed Racer was awesome. Now I can't even sit through one episode. Okay, the Mach 5 is still cool but ...

xg4bx · 06-12-2012, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle

Yes, but you were a 9 year old boy and the movie had Farrah Fawcett in it! Farrah Fawcett + young male + lasers + explosions = great cinema! You must have had the posters, right?

jenny agutter was much hotter than farrah. in a battle of logans run vixens, she wins hands down.

5thWiggle · 06-12-2012, 07:15 PM

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jenny agutter was much hotter than farrah. in a battle of logans run vixens, she wins hands down.

Yeah, but she wasn't hyped so much, and didn't have a famous poster (that I'm aware of anyway)

Besides, Farrah was the Bionic Man's main squeeze - how cool was that!

Lemurion · 06-12-2012, 07:39 PM

Jenny Agutter was also in "An American Werewolf in London" so that has to count for something.

I've found some of my tastes have changed, others remained the same. I can always read the best of Heinlein, same for Howard and "Doc" Smith. On the other hand I find my tastes cycle. Sometimes I want to read literary fiction, other times I go for mindless pulp. I've read at least 8-10 Star Trek books in the last couple of weeks.

VaporPunk · 06-13-2012, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle

Yes, but you were a 9 year old boy and the movie had Farrah Fawcett in it! Farrah Fawcett + young male + lasers + explosions = great cinema! You must have had the posters, right?

I remember seeing Damnation Alley after reading the book by Roger Zelazny. I vowed never to watch anything starring Geoge Peppard or Jan Micheal Vincent ever again (though they had nothing to do with the script). However, being a young male , I was quite willing to forgive Dominque Sanda.

Farrah Fawcett was in the movie? I didn't know, honestly.

I was too busy staring at -

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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

Farrah Fawcett had only a bit role in Logan's Run. By the time it came on TV, Farrah Fawcett was a major celebrity, so the promos for the TV airing touted her as a co-star. I don't think Logan's Run was crap. Dated, yes, but not crap. I do think that the attempts to look futuristic just looked corny after a few years.

Expectations. I was expecting the movie that my 9 year old brain had adored. Sadly, I was no longer 9 years old. Besides, the acting was after-school-special horrible. Forgive me, Jenny.

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Originally Posted by xg4bx

jenny agutter was much hotter than farrah. in a battle of logans run vixens, she wins hands down.

For once, we agree. Though I did have that FF poster...

And apologies to Applesauce, for being so

VaporPunk · 06-13-2012, 04:43 AM

Trying to get back on topic, when I was a teen I loved every book by Jack Higgins. And I mean every book that I could get my hands on. I reread one recently, and was kinda meh. Its good but loved it? Nah.

Yapyap · 06-13-2012, 06:59 AM

My reading habits have definitely changed. Evolved? Hmm, that depends on the definition of "evolved".

When I was in my teens / early twenties, I read mostly literary fiction and classical literature (19th century, mostly).

Now that I'm in my mid-thirties, I've gone back to the sort of stuff I read when I was six* - action, adventure, fantasy. Young adult fiction, mostly, with the occasional adult mystery or urban fantasy thrown in.

*I didn't read picture books or books for little children when I was six; I read Dumas, Verne, Rider Haggard, other stuff like that.

Georgey · 06-13-2012, 08:15 AM

Well, my reading habits change as well, yes. I love books of all kinds now which I would never have touched as a child or adolescent. But I have to say that I still like books I read as a child. I think it is more a question of maturing/growing up/widening the personal horizon and so forth. Of course, now I understand literature in a different way, also the children's books I read - i see things and layers of meaning now which were invisible to me as a child (thank God!) and now that I see them I can also read between the lines...reasons for change are countless...

silvi · 06-13-2012, 10:23 AM

My reading habits change according to what I'm doing at the time.
When I was studying A level Literature, I read many classic novels (and forced myself to read every Shakespeare play), just to immerse myself in the genre.
When I was teaching Imperial History, I read Kipling, Conrad and others, to get a feel of the times.
When I was involved in socialist politics, I read George Orwell and Bernard Shaw as well as Marx.
And so on....

But as to taste, I have always preferred thrillers, although as time has gone by, I find it increasingly difficult to be 'thrilled' by the end of the novel, as I have usually worked out exactly what is happening from the second chapter.
So perhaps it's time for a change.

fjtorres · 06-13-2012, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle

I remember seeing Damnation Alley after reading the book by Roger Zelazny. I vowed never to watch anything starring Geoge Peppard or Jan Micheal Vincent ever again (though they had nothing to do with the script). However, being a young male , I was quite willing to forgive Dominque Sanda.

It took him a while but Jackie Earle Haley eventually got back into my good graces. He was pretty good in Human Target.
Gotta love the modern pulps.

BelleZora · 06-13-2012, 01:53 PM

My father had a huge library of 1800's books he inherited. I began reading them while in 2nd grade and read Shakespeare (Gilbert & Lamb), Uncle Tom's Cabin, Wilkie Collins, many more while growing up, all with ease. Many adult years went by when I read only contemporary books. Now I'm rereading some of those old classics, but the language is more difficult for me. It's like a language in which I was once fluent but have forgotten.

I adored Richard S. Prather in my youth, but upon rereading some of those beloved capers I'm at a loss to understand their original allure.

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06-12-2012, 04:05 AM	#31
VaporPunk Evangelist Posts: 409 Karma: 49204386 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Belgium Device: Kindle 4 + Asus Transformer	Answering the OP, hells yes! But some loves do linger, especially fantasy. A little OT but movies, anyone? I remember watching Logan's Run when I was like 9 years old and thought it was the gosh-darndest greatest piece of cinema evah. And then saw it again like 20 years later and spent the whole time gagging and deeply confused as to how this was ever allowed to be seen by the viewing public. It was utter crap!

06-12-2012, 09:17 AM	#33
DMB Old Git Posts: 958 Karma: 1840790 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Switzerland (mostly) Device: Two kindle PWs wifi, kindle fire, iPad3 wifi	Some of my tastes have changed and some haven't. Until I was about 14, I read children's books like Biggles. But when I was about 14 I felt like Alice when she could suddenly get through the door. For me it was the door to the adult world that opened and I began to appreciate literature. Throughout the rest of my teens and my 20s I was energetically trying to catch up on the classics. I still like a lot of those books. In my 20s I read a lot of modern serious literary fiction. I also began reading the occasional whodunnit and Georgette Heyer for relaxation. That set the patttern until my mid to late 40s. I gradually went off most serious fiction and read more and more non-fiction, interspersed with the odd bit of escapism, as before. I'm pretty much unchanged now, although I do perhaps do a bit more re-readng than I used to. Things you read at 17 seem subtly different when you are 70+.

06-12-2012, 09:35 AM	#34
QuantumIguana Philosopher Posts: 2,034 Karma: 18736532 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2 gen, Kindle Fire 1st Gen, Kindle Touch	Farrah Fawcett had only a bit role in Logan's Run. By the time it came on TV, Farrah Fawcett was a major celebrity, so the promos for the TV airing touted her as a co-star. I don't think Logan's Run was crap. Dated, yes, but not crap. I do think that the attempts to look futuristic just looked corny after a few years.

06-12-2012, 06:04 PM	#35
Penforhire Wizard Posts: 2,230 Karma: 7145404 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Southern California Device: Kindle Voyage & iPhone 7+	How about cartoons? When I was little I thought Speed Racer was awesome. Now I can't even sit through one episode. Okay, the Mach 5 is still cool but ...

06-12-2012, 07:39 PM	#38
Lemurion eReader Posts: 2,750 Karma: 4968470 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: Note 5; PW3; Nook HD+; ChuWi Hi12; iPad	Jenny Agutter was also in "An American Werewolf in London" so that has to count for something. I've found some of my tastes have changed, others remained the same. I can always read the best of Heinlein, same for Howard and "Doc" Smith. On the other hand I find my tastes cycle. Sometimes I want to read literary fiction, other times I go for mindless pulp. I've read at least 8-10 Star Trek books in the last couple of weeks.

06-13-2012, 04:43 AM	#40
VaporPunk Evangelist Posts: 409 Karma: 49204386 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Belgium Device: Kindle 4 + Asus Transformer	Trying to get back on topic, when I was a teen I loved every book by Jack Higgins. And I mean every book that I could get my hands on. I reread one recently, and was kinda meh. Its good but loved it? Nah.

06-13-2012, 06:59 AM	#41
Yapyap Guru Posts: 861 Karma: 3543721 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Estonia Device: Kindle Paperwhite, iPad 3, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge	My reading habits have definitely changed. Evolved? Hmm, that depends on the definition of "evolved". When I was in my teens / early twenties, I read mostly literary fiction and classical literature (19th century, mostly). Now that I'm in my mid-thirties, I've gone back to the sort of stuff I read when I was six* - action, adventure, fantasy. Young adult fiction, mostly, with the occasional adult mystery or urban fantasy thrown in. *I didn't read picture books or books for little children when I was six; I read Dumas, Verne, Rider Haggard, other stuff like that.

06-13-2012, 08:15 AM	#42
Georgey Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: none	Well, my reading habits change as well, yes. I love books of all kinds now which I would never have touched as a child or adolescent. But I have to say that I still like books I read as a child. I think it is more a question of maturing/growing up/widening the personal horizon and so forth. Of course, now I understand literature in a different way, also the children's books I read - i see things and layers of meaning now which were invisible to me as a child (thank God!) and now that I see them I can also read between the lines...reasons for change are countless...

06-13-2012, 10:23 AM	#43
silvi Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 1140036 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: Kindle	My reading habits change according to what I'm doing at the time. When I was studying A level Literature, I read many classic novels (and forced myself to read every Shakespeare play), just to immerse myself in the genre. When I was teaching Imperial History, I read Kipling, Conrad and others, to get a feel of the times. When I was involved in socialist politics, I read George Orwell and Bernard Shaw as well as Marx. And so on.... But as to taste, I have always preferred thrillers, although as time has gone by, I find it increasingly difficult to be 'thrilled' by the end of the novel, as I have usually worked out exactly what is happening from the second chapter. So perhaps it's time for a change.

06-13-2012, 01:53 PM	#45
BelleZora Wizard Posts: 1,442 Karma: 25151986 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Seattle, US Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Libra 2, Pocketbook Verse Pro Color	My father had a huge library of 1800's books he inherited. I began reading them while in 2nd grade and read Shakespeare (Gilbert & Lamb), Uncle Tom's Cabin, Wilkie Collins, many more while growing up, all with ease. Many adult years went by when I read only contemporary books. Now I'm rereading some of those old classics, but the language is more difficult for me. It's like a language in which I was once fluent but have forgotten. I adored Richard S. Prather in my youth, but upon rereading some of those beloved capers I'm at a loss to understand their original allure.

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