What’s a book where, the experience or perception of the book, is greatly influenced by the readers mindset or experience?

By this I mean, it could depend on the reader’s age or lived experiences, etc. The book that made me think of this is Pet Sematary by Stephen King. I like horror books and whenever i look up lists of popular horror books, that one comes up. But one thing I noticed is that, most often, the people who say that this book genuinely scared them or that they had the strongest reactions to it, were parents. Now I don’t have kids and I still enjoyed it, so having kids isn’t a prerequisite to enjoying the book. But