Timeline for Grammar of "No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally–and often far more–worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond"

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Dec 20, 2021 at 14:37	comment	added	Michael Harvey		I disliked the Narnia books at age 10, and dislike them even more now, 60 years later. Too much God stuff. Likewise his 'Space Trilogy' (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra/Voyage to Venus, That Hideous Strength), which I read at age 11.
Dec 20, 2021 at 7:41	comment	added	justhalf		Agree with DW256. The relative clause should modify "book". So the subject "book" has two modifiers: "worth reading at 10" (A) and "not equally worth reading at 50" (B). So simplified, it is "No book is A and B". Here, "no" is a determiner for "book", just like "Some books are A and B".
Dec 20, 2021 at 1:05	comment	added	DW256		The relative clause couldn't possibly modify all of No book is really worth reading at the age of ten - that would leave us understanding '[The fact that no book is really worth reading at the age of ten] is not equally worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond'. It's clearly a modifier in the noun phrase headed by book - it's just been post-posed (moved to the end of the main clause).
Dec 19, 2021 at 0:35	history	answered	Greybeard	CC BY-SA 4.0