One thing we have largely lost in education is the idea that a book does not have to be finished with you just because you finished reading it.
For centuries, students returned to the same authors again and again, often reading Virgil or Cicero when they were young and coming back to them later with a much better understanding of what they had read.
You have probably experienced this yourself.
Read a great book at eighteen and then again at thirty, and you will often find an almost completely different book because you are no longer the same reader.
Some books are simply too good to read once.
As C. S. Lewis wrote:
“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
— C. S. Lewis
@kangminlee When I go to another country outside the US, I don't expect them to make hamburgers hotdogs and cornbread lol. I expect the country to be their own culture. Muslims however expect the country to just become an islam country and do it their way, especially banning anything pork.
@Cacophanus That’s brilliant. Even with the anime adaptation of Char’s story in between, it’s fair to say that the manga’s account of Amuro and the White Base’s journey was highly regarded.
If anything, I am concerned that the structure of the original manga—with its sudden shift to depict the founding of Zeon in the middle of Amuro’s story—might have confused overseas readers.