Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Question from a writer’s forum:<\/p>
“What books made you forget it was a book, and just want to eat at the George and race through the NeverNever on spell-box powered motocycles and play with the band, command that ship, and run with the pack?”<\/p>
I had that feeling when I was a kid, devouring the Sci Fi section of the local public library. I haven’t had it for a long, long time. Modern literature just doesn’t grab me and suck me in as it once did. <\/p>
I miss that.<\/p>
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Possibility 1: we focused on the generally-acknowledged great books when we were younger. They seemed better because they were<\/em>, pound for pound, better than the stuff you grabbed off the “New Releases” shelf at Barnes and Noble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Possilbility 2: the stuff coming out today really does suck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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