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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
And yes, we should appreciate the book for its trail-blazing qualities, rather than simply find fault with it because it was written 50 years ago, and would have been done differently now.
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That's no duality; we can be quite Gethenian about it.
The flipside is that a book shouldn't get a pass because it was groundbreaking. There's nothing wrong in saying, "But it would have been (even) better, if...." It's also fun and instructive to look at it for its role in the development of the genre.