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When you re-read your fav books, you realize how much your perspective has changed at a different stage in your life.

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yup! Harry Potter to be exact. I realize how juvenile and childish it actually is. Not that it’s a bad story, I love Harry Potter but the fans hype it up so bad. I actually cringe at people who live it like a Bible and applying philosophical meanings when there isn’t none. I can understand why JK Rowling has all but distanced herself from it.
 

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So true! My fave book is Wuthering Heights and I first read it before I ever was in love. After experience my first love chile that love story gave me hella anxiety. I’m afraid to read it again because I’d probably hate Heathcliff and Cathy lol
 

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So true! My fave book is Wuthering Heights and I first read it before I ever was in love. After experience my first love chile that love story gave me hella anxiety. I’m afraid to read it again because I’d probably hate Heathcliff and Cathy lol
That's how I feel about all the Jane Eyre books and recently I read an old Terry McMillan book and got sad. It was relatable and that made me sad.
 

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yup! Harry Potter to be exact. I realize how juvenile and childish it actually is. Not that it’s a bad story, I love Harry Potter but the fans hype it up so bad. I actually cringe at people who live it like a Bible and applying philosophical meanings when there isn’t none. I can understand why JK Rowling has all but distanced herself from it.
I never read any of it but I know adults my age who did and loved it.

The whole idea of creative fiction and fantasy is to offer escapism and ENTERTAINMENT but Harry Potter was truly in a category of its own.

I was truly happy, though, that it helped to create a whole generation of readers among children, even the ones whose parents never read to them and they had never developed an early love of reading.
 

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yes, and this is so much fun. some books or short stories that i really loved when read the first time, i still love, or don't love as much. i'm still looking for a book i read in elementary school (can't remember the name but i search google for subject matter) that i'd like to read again. i'd love to know if i'd find it just as engaging as an adult.
 

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Yup. There are a few books that I loved in my teens or college years that I couldn't even be bothered to finish upon trying to re- read as an adult. They either didn't capture my attention or they outright annoyed me.

But the ones I have gotten through and enjoyed, I treasure more.
 

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