QOTD

[smashbot]

As of right now, what is your favorite book?

What about when you were 15?

Me:

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

&

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Comments

[vegetableloaf]

Right now: The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway

When I was 15: The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway

I'm strangely consistent with favorites

[smashbot]

Do you go back and re-read it every couple of years?

[vegetableloaf]

Yeah...It always seems strangely relevant to my life each time I read it as well.

[smashbot]

I went back and re-read Breakfast of Champions last year and really found it to be lacking. On the other hand, I got a lot more out of Slaughter-House Five when I read it again last year than I did when I read it in high school.

[vegetableloaf]

I just felt the same way about the Great Gatsby. I was touched by how poetic the entire book was, especially the last sentence..."So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." I feel like I should go back and reread a lot of the classics I read for a grade in order to truly appreciate them.