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Over the years I have found that originally I liked fan fiction, but tired of it as I got older. When I go back and re-read the original, I now find that I love more than the storyline and characters. I love how it was written. I fall in love with the era it was created in.
A slightly off example but still along the same line, James Bond. Ian Fleming had a certain style of writing. He swept you along the adventure with his stylistic writing. A couple decades later John Gardner was comissioned to write the continuing adventures of James Bond. Though I read every one and looked forward to the new one in the 80's and 90's. I alway felt that his Bond was fast food Bond. It had adventure but it had no protein in its style. I have re-read the Fleming titles again in the last couple of years and find I get sucked into Fleming the moment I read the first page.
John Gardner, a great writer was comissioned to write in a style that was not his own. He explored a new side of his writing. I am grateful for his adventures but have not had the desire to re-read them. His contract to write more adventures was based on a market of James Bond fans desiring more stories. In this case, fun they were but Fleming they were not.
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