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Re: Harry Potter and young people's books
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Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:50:27 GMT
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I always enjoyed the AWrinkle In Time trilogy by Madeleine L'Engle.
It's sort of Sci-Fi, but without a lot of tech stuff.
~Mark
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Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
> From: "Bruce Schlickbernd" <corsair@schlickbernd.org>
> Organization: None
> Newsgroups: lugnet.off-topic.debate
> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:27:43 GMT
> Subject: Harry Potter and young people's books
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> All those strange permutations of debate based off the Harry Potter books
> becoming a Lego line. Which leads into...
>
> The actual Harry Potter books. My wife bought it for my son (9) to read, but
> he seems to have stopped. Having some time to kill, I read the first chapter
> of the third book (it was at hand) to him, and he seemed to like it. So what
> was wrong with the first book?
>
> Now, I'll read "children's" books. I have a large collection of illustrated
> books, but that's more for the art. I suppose it stems from going to a
> parochial school from 1st to 4th grade. Various books on lives of saints or
> Dr. Seuss did not do it for me. When I escaped to public school, I finally
> had
> a good library I could get at daily. I found out what the Newbury Award was.
> I became an after-school library helper just so I could snag the popular books
> when they came back in.
>
> But there's a lot I missed, and a lot of good books written since then. So
> when I get a book for my son, I'll often read it myself.
>
> But getting back to the first Harry Potter book. The first two chapters Harry
> gets dumped on, and not till the third do things liven up for him.
> Predictably, my son got stalled just before the start of the third chapter.
> It's was just a matter of a little nudge to get him going again.
>
> Of course, I had to finish the book. A fun story. I'm not sure why it is a
> #1
> bestseller, but these things take on a life of their own.
>
> So where am I going with this? I'm interested in peoples' non-adult favorite
> books (be it Harry Potter or otherwise). I'd have to say that Lloyd
> Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain (The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The
> High King, etc.) remain my favorite. Great writing, memorable characters, fun
> to read, but still had a point to make.
>
> Bruce
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| (...) The darn thing is I think I read it when I was in 6th grade, but I don't remember anything beyond it involved a tesseract and that it began with the classic Snoopy line: It was a dark and stormy night. Guess I'll just have to read it again. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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