Oh, my thought isn't "omg scary fan stalker," but rather "uh, I can do way better." <g>
Of course, a reader's fondness for a book has to do with many factors besides its quality. I'm sure Midnight Never Come is a better book, but it won't necessarily be the kind of thing all my readers are looking for; to use an example not me, I think Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age is a better-constructed book than Snow Crash, but I'll never like it a tenth as much, because it doesn't have a tenth the psychotic energy Snow Crash does.
And heck, I read Daniel Keys Moran's Continuing Time books in reverse order, and that one worked out. Those are less closely connected than my two are, but it still illustrates the point.
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Of course, a reader's fondness for a book has to do with many factors besides its quality. I'm sure Midnight Never Come is a better book, but it won't necessarily be the kind of thing all my readers are looking for; to use an example not me, I think Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age is a better-constructed book than Snow Crash, but I'll never like it a tenth as much, because it doesn't have a tenth the psychotic energy Snow Crash does.
And heck, I read Daniel Keys Moran's Continuing Time books in reverse order, and that one worked out. Those are less closely connected than my two are, but it still illustrates the point.