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  • Rated by shazbot316 on Nov 04, 12:22am

    I've read some lovably good shit lately.

  • Reviewed by billgoode on Sep 24, 9:30am

    It's an interesting article and I'm sure that it holds true for many people, but not for me. I skipped over the whole "young-adult literature" thing when I was growing up. I was reading Michael Chrichton when I was 8 and had (thankfully) moved on to Orwell by the time I was 12. "Animal Farm" is a book that I enjoy to this day, but I certainly don't wax nostalgic when thinking about it and I know that I have read better books in the time since then.

  • Rated by zarkenfrude on Sep 08, 12:34pm

    From the page: "... I've never loved any books like the ones I loved when I was 12 years old." So true

  • Rated by fluffybullet on Sep 06, 11:28am

    Interesting, but it's not true, not for me in any case!

  • Reviewed by hannahyu on Sep 05, 6:14pm

    Childhood books meant the world to me, and I still can't help but be proud that my favourite books will always be 'Cloudy with a Change of Meatballs', 'Dr. Seuss' Wacky Wednesday', 'Where the Wild Things Are', 'All American Girl Series (Molly & Samantha), Boxcar Children, and the one book that probably taught me all about emotions, 'The Reader'. That book I read at age 11, and it will always remain my number one favourite book.

  • Rated by jake-3k on Jul 04, 11:44am

    Undeniably true.

  • Rated by CluelessHuman2 on Jun 17, 6:44pm

    Ahh so much truth.

  • Reviewed by tragedyinpants on Jan 31 2009, 12:23am

    I agree with a few ideas here, but most sections are so steeped in nostalgia that I couldn't help but think of a friend of mine, who, after a few drinks, used to gush about how the cartoons we grew up watching in the 80s were The Best. The books that we read at important times in our lives become a part of who we are. It is not really dependent on what we read, so much as what we feel when we read it. The same is true of friends, family, pets, music, cigarette brands, and most everything else. We wouldn't want to abandon our treasured childhood stories any more than we would want to forget about our parents (for example). All books, for better or worse, have the potential to change our lives as long as we are open to the experience. Unfortunately, once we think that we know exactly who we are and what we like, we're usually not willing to risk that identity. So it's hard to become totally immersed in books in the way that we did so casually when we were younger. Reading is a relationship. Some people just don't want to get involved and read with the same detached air that people summon up when they walk past the homeless.