The right age for reading.

From the Guardian:

Try as I might, the Cooper books just didn't do it for me. It might have been the writing (clumsy* and portentous); it might have been the fact that any "Dark" that can be beaten back by an 11-year-old just isn't that chilling ... Or perhaps I'm just too old, and the Cooper sequence is of the non-crossover variety that only works for (i) children, or (ii) adults who read them when they were little and use them as a portal back into their own childhood.

I've run across this phenomenon quite often with the Cooper books -- that people who grew up with them adore them as adults, but that people who read them for the first time as adults don't take to them at all.

I've noticed something similar with Catcher in the Rye.  Others?

*SHOCKING!!  Just... shocking!