Oh, of course. When I was in 7th grade I'd have called him my favorite writer, and I spent all of junior high/high school devouring everything of his I could get my hands on. The Martian Chronicles reread, with my book group, taught me once again that it's sometimes disillusioning to revisit the passions of one's youth. But one of the things we talked about at the meeting was that the things about his writing that have held up best (for a number of us in the discussion, anyway) are his lyrical nostalgia and sense of childhood wonder -- and I actually said that if I decided to reread anything else by him it would be Dandelion Wine because it was the work that best played to his strengths.
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Date: 2007-06-05 07:20 pm (UTC)