Dear All, I hope you are all well. I was going through the book recommendations on here and the famous books that we've never understood the appeal of thread, and I thought about a question: Is there any book or book series which you have once loved/liked but now hate/dislike, or vice versa? I don't think there is a thread like this one here but apologies if there already is one! I just thought it would be interesting to hear your stories, since I always re-read my books and never take the same away from them. I'll go first: Harry Potter 1-7: I did not get this series when I first tried reading them (aged eleven) and declared almost outright hate for it (I didn't hate them. I have never yet felt hatred, lucky me). Then I tried reading them again at fifteen years old, and ten years later, I am a really, really big fan David Copperfield: I always loved Charles Dickens' stories though some of his books have been a bit of a drag to get through. The first time I read David Copperfield, I could not get either into it nor through it. But re-reading it a few years later, I read it almost in one go (it was a holiday) and loved it. Best, G.
Most of the SF I read as a kid and young adult I enjoyed. Nowadays, it all seems more like trashy space opera than it does real literature. Jane Austen's "masterpieces", I've never stopped hating those.
Haha, I've never read much Sci-Fi Is it bad that the description 'trashy space opera' makes me want to? Personally, I love Jane Austen's novels...except Sense and Sensibility, which I just found okay...but then again, I've only read that one once.
I have found some YA that is not too shabby. But I was reading normal adult books since I started reading. YA was not something I grew up with. So as an adult YA is like a nice light reading every once in a while. Still not a big fan of Fantasy. Blame Peirs Anthony for that.
