Frank Rizzo
Posts : 1456 Join date : 2011-02-02 Age : 39
| Subject: Books you used to enjoy but didn't on second reading Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:11 am | |
| Do any of you folks have any memories of a book that, the first time you read it, you thought it was a great, enjoyable read, however, upon second reading of it, you found yourself not enjoying it so much?
For me, that would have to be "Neuromancer" by William Gibson.
The first time I read it, I was 13 and thought "ERMAGERD! MOST! EPIC! BOOK! EVER!"
I re-read it about 10 years later, and only got through about 40 pages before I was all ".....This is so damn wordy and boring....what the hell was I thinking?" | |
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ChaosTheory
Posts : 580 Join date : 2012-04-16 Age : 43 Location : USA
| Subject: Re: Books you used to enjoy but didn't on second reading Sun Jun 02, 2013 6:14 am | |
| The only one I can think of off the top of my head would be Dracula. On first reading, epic horror story. On second reading, it just felt like a big angry diatribe about foreigners and women.
Now that I think about it, I almost never read novels more than once, even if I love them. There's too many books out there for me to go through, I guess. | |
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wildhoney66
Posts : 1253 Join date : 2011-05-19 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Books you used to enjoy but didn't on second reading Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:15 am | |
| i can't think of any right now but yes that's also happend to me. and i love re-reading books if i fall in love with them.
it happens with movies as well i watch a film a thousand times growing up and than not see it for eons it seems i'll watch it as an adult an what the fuck was i thinking?
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Subterfuge
Posts : 136 Join date : 2012-09-22
| Subject: Re: Books you used to enjoy but didn't on second reading Mon Jun 03, 2013 5:04 pm | |
| - Frank Rizzo wrote:
- Do any of you folks have any memories of a book that, the first time you read it, you thought it was a great, enjoyable read, however, upon second reading of it, you found yourself not enjoying it so much?
For me, that would have to be "Neuromancer" by William Gibson.
The first time I read it, I was 13 and thought "ERMAGERD! MOST! EPIC! BOOK! EVER!"
I re-read it about 10 years later, and only got through about 40 pages before I was all ".....This is so damn wordy and boring....what the hell was I thinking?" Total opposite for me. Neuromancer still gets better and better every time I read it even if it's dated, obviously but that's no surprise since I worship the ground W. Gibson walkd on I do prefer Count Zero, the sequel to Neuromancer, though. But I don't think I'll ever get bored of good old Neuromancer, it's just so full of awesome characters and '' off the hook '' sets and settings. | |
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