Re: I love it when authors criticise their own work many years after the original release.
Rebekah Send a noteboard - 14/02/2011 05:59:20 PM
Currently rereading Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin. It's his first Rebus novel.
The foreword to this edition is by Ian Rankin, and he's quite critical of his younger self, mocking word choice and things like that.
I haven't read the book, but I'm amused he'd criticize his own work to such an extent. To engage in an equally absurd game of "if only", it's quite possible that if he'd written the book then as he would want to now, it wouldn't have achieved the popularity or win an award because it would be a different book. It's not quite a direct comparison, but we've seen all the time series and authors whose later works/series installments were clearly inferior works than the books written earlier.
That's true. Although Rankin got a LOT better with later books. I've decided I'm going to try to read all of the Rebus novels in chronological order. It will be fun.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
I love it when authors criticise their own work many years after the original release.
- 14/02/2011 05:34:38 PM
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Re: I love it when authors criticise their own work many years after the original release.
- 14/02/2011 05:49:06 PM
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Re: I love it when authors criticise their own work many years after the original release.
- 14/02/2011 05:59:20 PM
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Rowling has talked about having problems with book 1, but
- 14/02/2011 06:56:10 PM
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she could make changes and release special editions. Fans love that.
- 15/02/2011 01:44:16 AM
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Except that the later books generally compensate for it...
- 15/02/2011 01:54:58 AM
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There were surprises in later books that should have at least been hinted at earlier. *NM*
- 15/02/2011 10:49:49 PM
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Didn't Stephen King do a revised version of The Gunslinger? *NM*
- 15/02/2011 11:29:42 PM
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I have it. It is terrible.
- 16/02/2011 03:43:16 AM
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Much of the older King work is better than his newer stuff. Same with George Lucas.
- 04/03/2011 04:04:17 AM
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Re: I want JKR's thoughts on her last book. The first is much better. 
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- 22/02/2011 04:58:21 AM
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- 22/02/2011 04:58:21 AM
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