reading her noticing everything everyone else noticed two decades ago without being aware of the past, etc...
gotta remember that unlike us (and certain other folks involved in this discussion [kicks Sonya]) that back when Watchmen came out, Cat was in, what, second grade?
I don't know about the way the rest of the world comes to this sort of thing, but any real sense of historicity in what I read I didn't come to until a few years ago at best, and I turned 40 last year. When I was 30, the only way I could really distinguish between "old" and "really old" in something published before 1968 was the big turning point around 1930 when plot became more important than description in commercial fiction. I still struggle with it, at times (I had to pause for a few minutes to remember whether Watchmen or Neuromancer came first when I first read that).
So yeah, on that part of it, I give her a pass. Been there, done that. It's just that there are few people around, and fewer by the day, who are ancient enough to discuss books of that age with me who were actually there...
(I note that I am making an assumption about your age, which I find, upon reflection, I have always made. Apologies, if necessary.)
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gotta remember that unlike us (and certain other folks involved in this discussion [kicks Sonya]) that back when Watchmen came out, Cat was in, what, second grade?
I don't know about the way the rest of the world comes to this sort of thing, but any real sense of historicity in what I read I didn't come to until a few years ago at best, and I turned 40 last year. When I was 30, the only way I could really distinguish between "old" and "really old" in something published before 1968 was the big turning point around 1930 when plot became more important than description in commercial fiction. I still struggle with it, at times (I had to pause for a few minutes to remember whether Watchmen or Neuromancer came first when I first read that).
So yeah, on that part of it, I give her a pass. Been there, done that. It's just that there are few people around, and fewer by the day, who are ancient enough to discuss books of that age with me who were actually there...
(I note that I am making an assumption about your age, which I find, upon reflection, I have always made. Apologies, if necessary.)