Have you ever changed your mind as for your favorite book?

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Have you ever changed your mind as for your favorite book?

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This Is just out of curiosity. Have you ever felt that the book you read years ago and that has been your favourite ever since, is suddenly replaced for another?
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Yes this has just recently happened to me because I just read the most amazing book on the planet but who knows this one might be replaced too but i am also at a very young age so my favorite book 2 years ago when I was still in elementary was quite juvenile and short so yes this happens quite often and not to be rude but I don't know how this changes when you get "older"
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Jen319164 wrote:Yes this has just recently happened to me because I just read the most amazing book on the planet but who knows this one might be replaced too but i am also at a very young age so my favorite book 2 years ago when I was still in elementary was quite juvenile and short so yes this happens quite often and not to be rude but I don't know how this changes when you get "older"
Happy to year that coming from such a young person! :) It never really happened to me, since I never really had a favourite book. But it crossed my mind when I was asked this very same question.
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I really don't even have a favorite book. I am constantly reading and my favorites are constantly changing.
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VanessaCherie21_ wrote:I really don't even have a favorite book. I am constantly reading and my favorites are constantly changing.
I'm just like you then! :)
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All the time. My favorites are constantly changing
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Of course. Taste changes with age.
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I don't think I would ever change my mind between two books that I've already read, but it makes sense to read a new book and have it become my favorite. What's the point of reading if there's no chance of finding something more amazing than you're favorite book? I do tend to have a problem though, where I'm hesitant to read any book that hasn't been personally recommended to me, because I don't want to spend time reading a book that I don't actually like.
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My favorites are always changing. There's nothing better than reading a new favorite book.
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All the time. My favorite book is usually the one I am reading at the time. :D
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Post by AajayBabar88 »

It might sound neurotic but i cannot choose a favorite book. Before
college I always had a favorite and had no doubt it was the best. But
in this last year I have so read I just want to list them all. What's your
favorite book? is a hard question to answer. I feel it changes with my mood.
I want people to ask which genre? :)
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Well, seriously, I have waayyy too many books I love to pick out a single favorite! But yes sometimes, the list alters a teensy bit, but not by much.
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Yes, some of my old favorites still hold a place in my heart but they have been replaced at the top of my list by a few newer books.
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I agree with all of your answers. Favourites do change as long as you keep your mind open. When I was asked for this very same question, it took me a hard time to get an answer, since I had never really thought about it. It's just, that sometimes it's a bit hard to confess that the book you loved so much years or even decades ago, no longer holds that title: it feels like you're betraying it. :cry:
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For that reason I haven't picked a favorite book! I will read one book and dub itbmy favorite then come across another book!
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