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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Replying to @michael_nielsen
The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus. Take away as a teen reading it: the world is absurd. Takeaway today: methodical doubt/philosophical honesty is the answer.
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Replying to @AlSalehSarahs @michael_nielsen
I’ll add to this: The Stranger. I read it for the first time when I was 16 or 17, it left me empty and confused. I’ve reread it several times over the past 15 years and it always did sth different to me, reflecting my life at each point in time. Those books are the best books.
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I should reread both these. I enjoyed both circa age 20, but suspect I'd read them very differently now. Camus' autobiographical "The First Man" has had a lasting impact on my life.
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