| Re: Never Go Back
I'm in the same boat as you. With new authors I find I have to kiss a lot of frogs to get a prince, and for sure having read a lot I am probably more discerning and find it hard to find anything which comes across as fresh.
With re-reading, this is about 80% of what I do. Sometimes stuff holds up really well in all respects, sometimes I can see the flaws but my original liking for the work allows me to accept them, and just sometimes I am rather disappointed. Some authors I wouldn't even try again (like Michael Moorcock). I read everything he wrote at the time but even then I could see the limitations of his plotting, charectorisation and prose but was carried along by the flood of ideas he had.
I wonder what I would make of 'The Jewel in the Skull' if I read it now?
Has anyone re-visited Moorcock all these years later? |