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⌈ Secret Post #5983 ⌋

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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: Peirs Anthony

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yup, lol

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)]

OMG are you me? I had the exact same experience with her books! I think they were so important to me at a specific time in my life, but I then outgrew that feeling, if that makes sense.

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)]

I don't remember it well, but I do remember not liking the ending one bit, and I just donated the book last month when sorting my shelves, because of the strong melancholy feeling it gave when I thought of it.

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)]

Friend, your entire comment is a mood.

I desperately related to Holden at 16 and I'm ashamed to say I probably still would at 30.

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.