Good advice. I actually experienced embarassment over books I used to like while reading Anthony's "Incarnations of Immortality" series as a teen. The first book was terribly good, I thought, despite the fact that I don't really remember it. By the time I got to the fifth book I was embarassed that I'd ever liked Anthony, especially with his "author's notes" that involved him wigging out because fans drive by his house and chastized him for not mowing often enough. It was a lot like Usenet, now that I think about it.
Other than that, I may have grown out of a lot of books, but I'm not embarassed that I used to like them. Not even those stupid adventure novels written by men as an excuse for softcore sex scenes. Those were popular when I was a teenager. I WILL NOT BE EMBARASSED.
What embarasses me are old writings and reports. Stuff I thought was terrific seems so pedestrian now, and it irks me when I remember teachers who encouraged these things. Did they think what I wrote was great for a 20 year old, or did they think it was great on any level? Because it's not great. And they may be really terrible professors if they thought it was great research.
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Date: 2005-12-19 04:08 pm (UTC)Other than that, I may have grown out of a lot of books, but I'm not embarassed that I used to like them. Not even those stupid adventure novels written by men as an excuse for softcore sex scenes. Those were popular when I was a teenager. I WILL NOT BE EMBARASSED.
What embarasses me are old writings and reports. Stuff I thought was terrific seems so pedestrian now, and it irks me when I remember teachers who encouraged these things. Did they think what I wrote was great for a 20 year old, or did they think it was great on any level? Because it's not great. And they may be really terrible professors if they thought it was great research.