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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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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_Gatsby_ is a caution against *recklessness*. This is utterly opaque to the tropical young man, who is evolutionarily predisposed to irrational risk taking. Young men don't stan Gatsby because they are literally recklessness engines. (Typically.)
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Please understand that by tropical I meant (to type) typical. Recklessness is not tropic, but isotropic.

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I read that in high school and it was amazing, I haven't gone back to it
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Man, I read Gatsby when I was 20ish too and found it dull and uninteresting.. maybe his time for a re-read -- you've given me hope!
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Gatsby was one of those for me too. Another, amazingly, was The Scarlet Letter. I consider it very underrated and still pertinent today.
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I've never read that one. What's good about it, now? Maybe it explores some issues that the 20-year-old you wasn't keyed in to yet?
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I had to read it in high school. I thought it was terrible then. Now, I just think it's inappropriate for that age =P
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