There are books I didn't like (or didn't really get) as a teen, and do now; there are books I liked when I was 30 and don't now in my late 40s. Some of it is that people change, yes—so part of the question is the degree to which those changes are common, even usual.
(Sometimes it's the cultural context that changes, what Jo Walton calls the Suck Fairy going back and putting sexism or racism in books one loved twenty years ago. That, I think, is less universal: some people will read right past those things again 20 years ago, or (alas) will share the attitudes I now find obnoxious and therefore not be bothered if the writer or characters show them.
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timeasmymeasure
Yes, and....
Date: 2012-10-07 01:10 pm (UTC)(Sometimes it's the cultural context that changes, what Jo Walton calls the Suck Fairy going back and putting sexism or racism in books one loved twenty years ago. That, I think, is less universal: some people will read right past those things again 20 years ago, or (alas) will share the attitudes I now find obnoxious and therefore not be bothered if the writer or characters show them.