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Re:How You Know by snide on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:48PM (#8753558)

This goes both ways.

Sometimes I avoid rereading books for the same reason. There was a Summer where Catcher in the Rye felt very important. I'd hate to reread it under my new, adult perspective. I'd prefer to let it linger in nostalgia.

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Re:How You Know by hudathun on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:52PM (#8753584)

I had the same same thing with the much less erudite Stranger in a Strange Land. Re-read it 20 years later and was disappointed. On the positive side, I should consider how much I've moved forward in that time :) or sideways :-S

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Re:How You Know by snide on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:56PM (#8753603)

The nice thing about Heinlein is he has a book for all stages. As I've gotten older I really prefer his "Time Enough for Love" novel, which is about looking back on a long life.

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Re:How You Know by thirdtruck on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:54PM (#8753590)

The same thing happens to me with video games on a regular basis. Younger me simply had much lower expectations and poorer taste, back when a NES controller (with all of four buttons and a D-Pad) sufficed.

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