Is it possible that losing one's taste for Hesse is simply a result of age and career choice? Critics, professional readers, have a very different mission than

Is it possible that losing one's taste for Hesse is simply a result of age and career choice? Critics, professional readers, have a very different mission than casual readers like me. It's their job to sift through great piles of words to find what's important. I have no such burden -- I've found that time and exposure to the internet have made me more interested in challenging books, not less.