Having read Jason Pettus' great review here 
 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 
 made me think that some of these ratings we give to books that we read when we were young and far more delightful than we are now are a little suspect and really nostalgic. I discuss the problem of re-reading a youthful favourite in my review on Something Wicked This Way Comes; but now I wonder if goodreads should have a "read so long ago this rating is probably meaningless" icon we could add.