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Originally Posted by kennyc
even more outrageous still works for me cause that background is not really what the story is about
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But would it "still work for you" if you read it for the very first time today? I know its sort of impossible to answer that question impartially/truthfully, but these are the things I worry about when considering going back to read "influential genre classics." I'm weird that way. I want the same experience people had when reading those influential works at the time they were busy being influential. And I don't think that's possible. So it's not that I'm worried about them not being "good," or not "holding up," but rather that I've already missed out what made them special in the first place -- the fact that nothing else like them existed when I first experienced them.