seawasp | (Reply)

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Well, we may have very different perceptions. My reading preferences really haven't shifted much since I was sixteen or seventeen. Certainly not to the point that a book I felt sucked boulders through a garden hose would do anything differently now. I think I may have encountered two things in my life where that kind of change happened (but I can't offhand think of any examples). Wuthering Heights is clearly going to suck at any age, from my point of view. I don't WANT dysfunctional characters in my reading, unless they're few, far between, and mostly villains, thanks very much.

And seeing ANYTHING in the theater is far LESS fun than reading it as a script, for me. I can't imagine WHY people go to theaters. I've done plenty of ACTING, and I know why I like playing on a stage, or singing to an audience, but speaking honestly I have no idea WHY there's an audience. I can't understand anything people are saying most of the time, I can't really see what they're doing, and in a play that has any fanciful content, well, dude, if I want to see clumsy representations of magical events I can always LARP and be in the middle of the action.

So the other problem (which this reading list ALSO points up) is that YMMV, and MV drastically. SOME readers might think reading angst by the ton is the best thing since sliced bread, but others will think it's more fun to start carving their initials in their arms with a dental drill.