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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I find that the only books that tend to not age well are books that inaccurately attempted to predict the future (a future that is now the present, or even the past). Sans that, I've (personally) never really run into a well-written book that didn't "age well." I prefer older works not be updated at all. I don't see any real point in doing it. Not even for children. The past doesn't need fixing, and it won't hurt anyone to read about about things with which they're totally unfamiliar--quite the contrary, in fact.
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It is, unfortunately, an undeniable fact that some children’s books from the early 20th century display what most modern readers would consider to be distasteful and completely unacceptable stereotypes of non-white races. The original “Tom Swift” books have a “comedic” black man who is terrified by Tom’s inventions as a recurring character, for example, while the “Hardy Boys” books stereotype Chinese people as untrustworthy and sinister. I’d say these are examples of books that don’t age well.