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Re: Harry Potter and young people's books
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:26:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > All those strange permutations of debate based off the Harry Potter books
> > becoming a Lego line. Which leads into...
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> > The actual Harry Potter books.
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> Why is this a "debate" topic? Seems to me personal preference is just that,
> preference, not a debatable thing. So this thread belongs in .fun. Can we
> debate that? :-)
Well for heaven's sake - why didn't you redirect this to .fun then? Shazam -
there we go.
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> > So where am I going with this? I'm interested in peoples' non-adult favorite
> > books (be it Harry Potter or otherwise).
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> I would go with the Heinlein juveniles as a group.
> "Have spacesuit, will travel" , "The Star Beast", "The Rolling
> Stones", "Podkayne of Mars", and others, including, believe it or
> not, "Starship Troopers" which was written as a juvie.
A libertarian writer, it figures. :-)
I liked his juvenile books better than his "adult" books. Double Star and
Citizen of the Galaxy come to mind.
Uh-oh, maybe I should keep this in debate: Starship Troopers is a borderline
juvie book at best. It may have gotten the Hugo award, but I'd rate it as the
worst Heinlein book I've read (but it should be noted that I don't like his
adult books in general, so it's IMHO only).
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> Also, Jack London's "White Fang" and "Call of the Wild" and "Sea Wolf" all of
> which I read when young although they may not be considered non adult at this
> point.
More borderline books (high school assignments). All interesting ones, though.
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> My daughter reads a lot of Animorphs but that stuff is like cotton candy, spun
> out in large quantities but not a lot of substance there.
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> ++Lar
Did Goosebumps finally die out?
Bruce
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| (...) Not now, it's in .fun now...good going Lar! (...) favorite (...) The bulk of this list is reasonable to classify as juvenile literature, but I've also included some non-juvenile at the end that I think is especially good for kids. You (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Why is this a "debate" topic? Seems to me personal preference is just that, preference, not a debatable thing. So this thread belongs in .fun. Can we debate that? :-) (...) I would go with the Heinlein juveniles as a group. "Have spacesuit, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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