Had that moment last Tuesday at the library book swap

I always argued for sticking to the classics in our club, thinking newer stuff was fluff. Then I saw how dead the discussion was on 'Moby Dick' compared to the lively debate over a random 2023 debut novel. Anyone else hit a wall where your old rules just stopped working?

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chen.casey5d ago

your old rules just stopped working" - yeah that hits different when you see it happen in real time. I was listening to this podcast about reading habits and they mentioned how people's tastes change every 7-10 years naturally, like your brain just shifts what it finds interesting. I noticed the same thing with my own shelf when I forced myself through "The Scarlet Letter" and then picked up a random thriller and finished it in two days. The classics taught us how to read, but maybe the new stuff is teaching us why we read in the first place (you know, besides school).

grace_bailey5d ago

Used to think the old stuff was just better written or whatever, but that point about our brains shifting every 7-10 years actually makes a lot of sense. Kinda forced myself to reconsider after seeing my own reading pile change that much.