If this were a poll,

[Taem]

Harry Harrison's -- Stainless Steel Rat

That series right there was my little guilty secret pleasure when I was little. Going back and reading it now, not as compelling and really not that well written, but the story I still love.

I am having that same problem with all forms of media lately. I watch a movie in the midst of my youth I thought was quite possibly the best ever made, then see it again fifteen years later after I've had kids and a full time job, and suddenly that movie has new meaning and the characters actions I thought were "cool", I now feel are anarchistic and a determent to society; the movie looses its flavor! Again with books, I've been re-reading some books I haven't read since high school, and wouldn't you know it? The same results apply. It's funny, because I never felt this change happen, but I have without a doubt changed, and for the better I feel. Nothing generally stays the same forever.