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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middlemarch was one of the few books I could not get through (at a time in my life when I would finish books whether they appealed to me or not). [b]I re-read Gone With the Wind, as an adult, and was absolutely appalled that I liked it so much as a teen.[/b] Lesson learned, don't re-read pieces that haven't evolved as you have.

As someone that does not prefer to re-read books, my favorite is Ha Jin's Waiting. I can re-read it and still enjoy it.  Pretty much anything PG Wodehouse has written falls into that category as well.[/quote]

That's odd. I was the opposite. I wouldn't have had had to maturity to enjoy and understand such a rich and remarkable book when I was a teenager.[/quote]

really? it was a summer reading book for 8th grade at a local private when I was growing up. It was definitely one  of those sweeping novels that girls that age feel in love with and read and reread. Rifles for waity and the outsiders were also on that list, and the far pavilions.  Teh far pavilions I recognize as racist and cringe worthy right away, probably b/c I am south asian but I loved GWTW. I remember it vividly- my older sister was reading it and I was a precocious reader (still cant spell though) and would sneak into her walk- in closet to read it summer of 7th grade.  I loved it but I recognize it for the brilliant propaganda that it is, probably the best artifact of Lost Cause propaganda ever produced. [/quote]

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