# Booksnobbery **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booksnobbery/632196 "2012-08-21T19:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booksnobbery/632196/101 "2012-08-30T00:35:16Z")
I loved the Earthsea Trilogy as a real young adult (20’s); I won’t re-read it because I’m afraid I won’t enjoy it as much in my bitter and cynical old age. > [@amanset](#): > > Judging by your “joined date”, I’ve been here three years longer than you. Long and tedious story; I originally joined before the board went pay-to-post, but let my membership lapse. I came back (to find some information on “orange”), found out the board was free again, and created a new account, and arranged with the Mods to clean up the potential sock issue (which wasn’t really an issue, because the usernames were so similar). But I used to post here when some people would always type the posts in a text edit application first, in case the board crashed. These were very well-reasoned and polished posts. I was not one of those posters. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booksnobbery/632196/102 "2012-08-30T01:50:56Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I loved the Earthsea Trilogy as a real young adult (20’s); I won’t re-read it because I’m afraid I won’t enjoy it as much in my bitter and cynical old age. Reread it. You will like different things about it now. I promise. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booksnobbery/632196/103 "2012-08-30T04:16:13Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I don’t even remember who wrote the Trixie Belden books; I only know that I really wanted to be her! I’ve not read the other authors but I was a voracious Enid Blyton reader (Famous Five, Secret Seven) reader as a child. I really like Asimov’s non[-fiction as well and I do like alternate universe SF (Conquistador for instance), just get so disappointed at all the Fantasy which is on the SF shelves lately. First six Trixie books were by Julie Campbell; others were by various people using the pen name Kathryn Kenny (shades of Stratemeyer!). Never read any Famous Five or Seccret Seven books, but I love the “[Location] of Adventure” series (especially Castle and Valley) and the Malory Towers series. And I really, really wish Stirling would write a sequel to _Conquistador_… ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booksnobbery/632196/104 "2012-08-30T06:14:59Z")
> [@](#): > > I loved the Earthsea Trilogy as a real young adult (20’s); I won’t re-read it because I’m afraid I won’t enjoy it as much in my bitter and cynical old age. Re-read it. There are more layers in it, and you can appreciate them now. You might want to skip _Tehanu_, though. If a YA book is worth reading as a kid, then it’s worth re-reading as an adult, because there are almost always more layers that you missed. It’s like the old cartoons that had all sorts of sly references that you didn’t get as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booksnobbery/632196/105 "2012-08-30T20:37:31Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > When I first met my uncle’s wife a few months ago, I knew that we could never be close, in part because she asked me if I like Danielle Steele. It was a battle to not roll my eyes at that. Also, she asked me if I liked Thomas Kinkade. That kind of sealed the deal. > > I don’t think anyone has to stop being a booksnob. It doesn’t really hurt anyone, if, like me, you keep your thoughts to yourself. I’m sure the OP isn’t going around denouncing anyone publicly. Fellow Booksnob here, but don’t knock your uncles wife, in todays world actually reading a book almost makes them an intellectual. In todays world being functionly literate makes them part of an elite’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/booksnobbery/632196.md?page=5)