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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Patricia Cornwell's novels Harry Potter series. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
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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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Nabokov's lecture about Jane Austen in his Lectures on Western Literature is fantastic. He explains exactly what makes her so amazing - it's a master explaining another master.
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Something about not being forced to read a book in school makes it better
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Why were they better after time?
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Yess!
She left a deep impression around a woman’s choice, the imperfection of people, how they change and make amends.
But above all, a roadmap to thinking through rules and its relation to being independent, while retaining relationships and the joy of being yourself. - Show replies
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