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Originally Posted by zespectre
Then there were some disappointments, for example The Space Mavericks by Michael Kring. I LOVED this book as a teen and as an adult it seemed so...thin. "The Last Rangers" series by Jake Davis. Again, like eating a cream puff, maybe a little too much flavor and not at all filling  |
You know, I've been meaning to start a thread about this. And maybe I should so I don't hijack yours... but I was wondering if anyone had gone back and re-read books from way back when that they liked and then on re-reading finding they didn't like them.
I had two that came to mind.
A Robert Heinlein book (and one reason I didn't start the thread is that I have to look up the title to the book). Starts off with a guy going to a party, meets a girl, her father, the lady hosting the party... they leave the house and it blows up and they are trying to escape whoever is trying to kill him.
I found the dialog... weird. It just didn't ring true. But the kicker was when the lady hosting the party asked the girl if she had had sex with her own father. The girl looks down and say no, but she would have if he wanted to because she loved him that much. The lady says something like 'good for you!'.
If I read this as a teen, and I probably did as I read many of his books, I probably just wrinkled my nose at the weird thought and kept going. As a father to a teen girl I had a WAY different reaction to this and stopped reading.
I do want to pick up another of his books... maybe Stranger in a Strange Land or Starship Troopers, and see if I still like them.
The other was Sword of Shannara. I REALLY liked that book way back when. I tried to re-read it and... uggg. Just couldn't get though it.
I did re-read Hitchhikers guide recently. I still liked those but not as much as I did the first time around.
Interesting project you have set yourself and I'm looking forward to any more you have to say on it.
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