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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 3531066, member: 7631"] I like your comparison to an old friend or family member who tells a story over and over. I'd add that the friend will occasionally surprise you. Some books have layers and layers to peel away. When I was a teenager, I never saw anything besides the main parts of the plot. I was never concerned with why some characters behaved the way they did. I didn't have as firm a grasp of the subtleties of language as I do now. I'm fascinated by the English language, and someone like Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis, or especially HP Lovecraft always has something to teach me about language. (Did you know that nefandous and infandous don't mean the same thing?) I still read mostly new-to-me stuff, but enjoy the living daylights out of my annual foray back into Jane Austen and Sinclair Lewis. [/QUOTE]