The disenchantment of advancing age

April 20, 2014

While looking through the NY Times Sunday book section, I found this essay, “Which Books From Your Past Do You Read Now With Ambivalence?”

To be honest, I didn’t read it. Who has time? But it does raise an interesting question which I put to you, but regarding baseball titles. Some people have gone back to Ball Four and found it hasn’t aged well, thanks in part to more explicit and sensationalistic memoirs that have been published since 1970. Others go back further: the biographies they read as kids not longer stand up, as our innocence has long since passed and more adult books have come along, for example Robert Creamer’s Babe: The Life and Legend.

Then again, I rarely re-read; there’s too much new material coming out all the time.

So what do you think? Is there anything from your literary past that deserves a modern-day

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