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I re-read Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen a few years ago. It was read to us at school when I was 10 or so, then I bought a copy with Birthday money a few months later and read it myself. I hadn't read it for years, but despite it being a children's book it was as creepy as ever and I was aware of a lot of things I hadn't noticed as a child. But a book my sister and I had read in our teens and both loved, turned out to be really dated on re-reading. I couldn't find a trace of the book I'd enjoyed so much. Oddly enough, my sister still likes it. It was a gothic romance so perhaps my tastes have changed a lot since then, I don't know. There are a few books I've re-read a number of times and still love, but I have so many I want to read that re-reading is rare.