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Books you regret re-reading

[(Anonymous)]

Or books you don't dare re-visit for fear they won't live up to your expectations?

Inspired by secret #8

Re: Books you regret re-reading

[philstar22]

I loved the Babysitters Club books as a kid, but I have no intention of rereading them as an adult.

I reread Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters, which was the first horror book I ever read as a kid. Did not hold up at all.

Peirs Anthony

[(Anonymous)]

I loved the Incarnations of Immortality books as a teen. Tried to reread them a few years ago and nope. I had such happy memories of enjoying those books, now it's ruined. :(

Re: Books you regret re-reading

[(Anonymous)]

Reading Anne Rice's vampire chronicles meant the world to me as a preteen because I had a hard time getting interested in the books that were available at my catholic school - which nearly lead to me not reading all together had I not found the VC books at a local library and kept me motivated to keep going back there to find more of Rice's books.

But as an adult, I really don't want to read them because I think I'll get angry or hate the writing and ruin the memories I have of reading them (the last Anne Rice book I read was about 8 years ago when I had an urge to read the rest of her books that I didn't get to read as a kid. Blackwood Farm was the one I had the biggest love-hate for it, because there were so many interesting ideas and a story line that kept me reading to see how it ended - but everything else was kind of terrible lol.)

Re: Books you regret re-reading

[(Anonymous)]

When I was 17 years old, I really got into Banana Yoshimoto's books and thought that her works were the best thing ever. Amrita was my absolute favorite book by Yoshimoto - but I re-read it during lockdown about 13 years later and it was a lot weirder than I remembered. That alone wouldn't have been too bad, but rereading Amrita lead to me reading her other books and oh boy she sure does love incest in her stories. I still like her short stories books, but after reading Moshi Moshi and N.P. I just don't feel like reading anything else by her after that.

Re: Books you regret re-reading

[(Anonymous)]

I rarely re-read anything, so the only one I can think of is Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley. I don't know if anyone here is familiar with it, but it has an incredibly depressing ending that, as an ~edgy gothic teenager, I thought was cool, but re-reading it in my 20s, it just made me sad. I read some article after reading it the second time that the author regretted the direction it went in and that the ending was supposed to be happy, but I apparently misinterpreted it or something because I didn't get that at all. A conversation I had recently reminded me of it so it's been on my mind the past couple days, and I'm actually thinking of reading it again to see if I see it differently this time.

Re: Books you regret re-reading

[(Anonymous)]

Like many people, I read and loved The Catcher in the Rye in high school. I won't re-read it, because I'm afraid I will love it as much and feel bad about it because my brain will hear the internet saying "toxic problematic overrated grow up you're an adult woman who shouldn't relate to a whiny teenage boy anymore."

Re: Books you regret re-reading

[(Anonymous)]

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, I did a complete 360 on. So maybe I should be putting this in the thread for books that held up, but it didn't so much "hold up" as I appreciate it in a somewhat different way now. When I first read it, I loved it, thought it was great and Stargirl was a wonderful and lovable character! When I revisited it, a lot of Stargirl's kind actions made me very uncomfortable, how had I not noticed how much of them involved invading people's boundaries? Especially the kid she watched and photographed in private to make a surprise photo album for his parents when he was older... wtf that's outright illegal stalker behavior. But I wanted so much to love the book like I used to that I revisited it yet again, and maybe I forced myself, but now I love it as a product of its time and as a fairytale-like story that's best not taken literally.

Topics of interest

[philstar22]

What are some things you would love to research or learn more about if you had the time? What sorts of subjects to you read about for fun?

Re: Topics of interest

[(Anonymous)]

Ngl, I've been getting more and more curious about the history of the furry fandom recently. I think if I had the time, I'd probably try and track down any non-fiction books about it.

Re: Topics of interest

[philstar22]

I'm really interested in some specific history topics: war/military history, court/crime/justice system history, civil rights history, ancient history (love learning about ancient cultures), Russian history (mostly Tsarist Russian history), and history of belief systems/myths/legends and how they developed.

I've been fascinated by volcanoes since I was a kid. Also anything space related.

Cats. Dogs. Penguins. Snakes. Animals in general.

Re: Topics of interest

[kaijinscendre]

Taxidermy but just in the realm of preserving bones and such.

Re: Topics of interest

[randomdrops]

There is just SO MUCH I want to know about. I wish I could just spend my life learning fun things about what catches my fancy. I'm a big culture nerd, so anything anthropology/archaeology related I always wish I could know more about. Same with language.

For fun I often read a lot of child development and child psychology articles. It's related to my job, but I also just find that stuff really interesting to read about.

I'll also go on random deep dives about various animals and ecosystems. I get really excited when an animal pops up that I've never heard about! It doesn't happen very often, but always fun when it does.

Re: Topics of interest

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like it's easier to state what I'm not interested in. That said, probably at the top of the list is cyber psychology. After that, I'd probably go with either the Olympic movement or anatomy/physiology.

Re: Topics of interest

[(Anonymous)]

Generally - history of religion, social history, economic history, history of philosophy.

More particular - with religion I would say history of Islam, Christianity and Buddhism in particular, and I also love learning about the social history of Islamic and Buddhist societies specifically and getting a picture of how those religions actually functioned in society historically. But I also find the theological side of it really fascinating as well. And then with social and economic history I find the late medieval / early modern / modern period really fascinating. I think it's really interesting to read about like, the development of financial systems and trade networks, and then how those economic systems also play out in terms of different social institutions and all of that fits together with political systems and state development. And also the development of (basically) the enlightenment / scientific and industrial revolution / modernity because it's so complicated and so important.

Re: Topics of interest

[(Anonymous)]

The criminal justice system is super interesting to me. Also ancient civilizations, archaeology, the culture of remote places that aren't really well-known, and nature/animals/plants. Volcanoes, caves, the ocean. And I find it interesting to read/watch things about scuba diving, even though I have zero interest in doing it myself.

Re: Topics of interest

[(Anonymous)]

Easier to say what I don't want to learn more about. I listen to audiobooks while I work and I have a list of over 200 with my library that I'm working through. I think two or three are fiction, the rest are non fiction.

For example: I just finished up A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon and started Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't) by Alex Bezzerides. Next up after that is a book about Action Park, the horrific amusement and water park in New Jersey.

Re: Topics of interest

[(Anonymous)]

I’m super interested in learning more about the animal kingdom and wildlife conservation. I spent most of the pandemic reading as much as I could get my hands on and also watched some things (I hate watching anything so that was kind of a big deal for me). I learned every animal species in my area including migratory birds and also learned a lot of the plants/trees. I ran out of stuff to read and local wildlife to study so I enrolled in uni and am majoring in wildlife conservation now.

Re: Topics of interest

[(Anonymous)]

mythology/religion (sometimes go hand in hand), unsolved mysteries, cryptids, animal behaviour, archaeology, dinosaurs, space

Re: Topics of interest

[(Anonymous)]

Lately, the theory that Christopher Marlowe's death was a clever ruse to avoid his being hauled in front of a court and then tortured and executed for atheism. I won't hazard a guess if it's true, but there's reasons to doubt the official story and the premise is hella entertaining.

Books that you re-read and held up

[(Anonymous)]

Alternate version!

Does anyone else have parents that are weird about the internet?

[(Anonymous)]

So my parents are constantly ridiculing me for daring to believe anything I saw online. My mom is signed up for newsletters from random people and is always talking about blogs she reads, and my dad is always talking about stuff he read on Facebook, but when I read a newspaper article or the results of a study that was conducted on some subject, they make fun of me and criticize me for believing it.

And if I mention something that's not educational, but just some random discussion on Reddit or something, and say it was just a discussion people were having, I get criticized for even reading it at all because it was on the internet and that somehow makes it bad? Yet having a discussion about the same subject with neighbors or random people at the grocery store is completely different to them because it's in person, and I just...don't get it.

I guess it's just boomers being boomers lol but it's annoying.

Random thought

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone else think there needs to be an updated version of "We Didn't Start the Fire"?

RIP

[(Anonymous)]

Tina Turner.

She passed away :(