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It may just not be all that good. The idea that it wasn't published because it was too lurid for the delicate sensibilities of the day sounds like wishful thin
by jandrese 5y ago
It may just not be all that good. The idea that it wasn't published because it was too lurid for the delicate sensibilities of the day sounds like wishful thinking to me.
- klyrs 5y agoWhen I read Neil Stephenson, I decided to go chronologically. The Big U is quite a bad book, but I enjoyed reading it, and appreciate the perspective I gained by seeing Stephenson grow as an author. Steinbeck fans will probably eat it up, even if it's objectively awful
- skykooler 5y agoMuch the same thing for reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, since the first book is basically the first thing he wrote - you can really see the writing style grow over the course of the series.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoAs a lover of turn of the century genre fiction, I imagine it's an attempt to save face more than any question of delicate sensibilities.