The odd thing about _The Door Into Starlight_ is that when I finished _Sunset_, I thought that was it. It seemed an altogether fine place to leave them. For that reason, I'm even more dubious about it.
(I wish I could remember what ending papersky and I came up with, fall 1997, that the author wasn't it.)
I also didn't realize she'd re-written the first one, but I believe mine is a first.
I've not read the later Uplift books; I didn't get around to them before the set of three was finished, and when I heard we still didn't really get answers, I pushed them way down the list. Personal events have since overtaken this, and now I won't read them at all, which distresses me not in the least.
On a more general level--
I suspect that one of the differences between those in the "jump in" camp versus those in the "hold back because it might suck" one may be in the way we remember books. With respect to not liking even stylist revisions, you said you have a very intense visual memory for text, whereas I've often bemoaned the fact that with my terrible memory I can rarely quote anything accurately without having to look it up. If a book, once read, will be more or less engraved upon your memory, I can understand your reluctance to commit to something that may dash your high hopes.
I think it's partly the text-based thing, and partly a certain . . . suspectibility, I think. Things like an "alternate" ending to the movie _Ronin_, on its DVD, which is actually other events intercut in--I wish I'd never seen it, because I'm convinced it *really* *happened*, just off-screen, and it's part of the movie for me forevermore. Similarly, papersky had a dream a while ago about something that happened after all Sayers' published Wimsey/Vane novels, and now I'm convinced that *really* *happened*, just not in any book Sayers got around to writing. I do very badly at separating out that kind of added story information from the original.
(Also, the text-memory thing comes from at least a couple re-readings; it's not automatic.)
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Date: 2004-11-21 01:01 pm (UTC)(I wish I could remember what ending
I also didn't realize she'd re-written the first one, but I believe mine is a first.
I've not read the later Uplift books; I didn't get around to them before the set of three was finished, and when I heard we still didn't really get answers, I pushed them way down the list. Personal events have since overtaken this, and now I won't read them at all, which distresses me not in the least.
On a more general level--
I suspect that one of the differences between those in the "jump in" camp versus those in the "hold back because it might suck" one may be in the way we remember books. With respect to not liking even stylist revisions, you said you have a very intense visual memory for text, whereas I've often bemoaned the fact that with my terrible memory I can rarely quote anything accurately without having to look it up. If a book, once read, will be more or less engraved upon your memory, I can understand your reluctance to commit to something that may dash your high hopes.
I think it's partly the text-based thing, and partly a certain . . . suspectibility, I think. Things like an "alternate" ending to the movie _Ronin_, on its DVD, which is actually other events intercut in--I wish I'd never seen it, because I'm convinced it *really* *happened*, just off-screen, and it's part of the movie for me forevermore. Similarly,
(Also, the text-memory thing comes from at least a couple re-readings; it's not automatic.)