The optimistic interpretation of this happening is that it's a sign of some kind of personal growth inbetween time.
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Examples of books (or stories) that you reread years later, & found to be much better? For me: Arrival (Ted Chiang, loved it even the first time); Speaker for the Dead (ditto: loved it at first, even more upon reread); the Great Gatsby (didn't like first time, loved the second)
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Gatsby: I read at 20, and thought it varied from dull to mildly interesting. I reread about 15 years later and it was just astonishingly good. Pretty sure it's not the book that changed
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On Arrival: well, um, as several of my friends have learned (at great length), I'm a little irrational on this subject. I thought it was superb the first time I read it. The second time I decided it was a work of absolute, utter genius.
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My notes immediately after a second reread of Arrival (spoilers, of course, and these are very sketchy and needs to be much more fleshed out):pic.twitter.com/9kPpU45h9I
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Excuse me, of course I mean "Story of Your Life", which was turned into the movie "Arrival" (good, but not in the same class, AFAICT).
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Jane Austen's novels.
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I haven't read them all. But this is very true of P&P, for me. It's now one of my favourite novels; 20 year-old me would have utterly mystified by this. (It's difficult for me to conceive how Austen achieved what she did, when I look at contemporary works; it's just staggering)
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a very different book as a teenager than as an adult with some experience with adversity. I've also found that I appreciate CS Lewis's non-fiction writing a lot more now.
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I've found the same with Lewis's essays. Never read tDoII.
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The gathering storm, susan sontag’s reborn, nausea
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Interesting. I should reread Nausea (which didn't really work for me). Never read the others. Assuming tGS is the Robert Jordan book, I think I abandoned that series at about book 8, unfortunately...
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