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6589664 No.6589664 [Reply] [Original]

>Read pic related as a child
>It's shit
>Read again as an adult
>Still shit

Any books that get better when you get older?

>> No.6589670

Your taste was supposed to get better when you grew older

>> No.6589685

>>6589670
Books don't get better when they get older.

>> No.6589965

>>6589685
Nope, but your taste was supposed to hetter appreciate good books

It didn't.

>> No.6589995

>>6589664
Why would you try to read a war novel trilogy as a child? Baby me was like
>I'll save this for when I know what the fuck they're talking about
But maybe I'm just retarded :/

>> No.6589997

>>6589664
>can no more explicitly define his dislike for the books other than just saying that they are shit

Great thread, OP.

>> No.6590006

Winter of our Discontent
Coriolanus

>> No.6590034
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6590034

Maybe it's not a "child vs adult" thing, but I was assigned Augustine's Confessions twice in college- once when I was 18 and once when I was 20. I couldn't stand it enough to get through it either time.

Now, as a 28 year old, I actually did read it, and it is one of my favorite written works ever.

>> No.6590087

>>6590034
You became boring is why.

>> No.6590408

>>6590087
You are implying he was cool before.

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>>6589664
this right here

masterpiece at 16, mediocre at 26

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6590639

>>6590415

>> No.6591110

Shakespeare gets better with age.

>> No.6591135

>>6590415
I'm 23 and currently reading it, does it mean I'll find it okay?