While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...
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He says he likes the way the stories are written. That’s about all he says about it when asked.
Yeah, he marches to a different drummer than most kids his age. I stand corrected though about his next choice. This morning he tells me Robert Louis Stevenson’s Black Arrow is next on his list.
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@Renauda said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...:
He says he likes the way the stories are written. That’s about all he says about it when asked.
Yeah, he marches to a different drummer than most kids his age. I stand corrected though about his next choice. This morning he tells me Robert Louis Stevenson’s Black Arrow is next on his list.
If he likes Stevenson, "Markheim" is a great one. "The Ebb Tide" is good too if he likes shipwrecks.
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@George-K said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...:
I have done zero Potter - no books, no movies.
Is it worth the dive?
I enjoyed the movies. Reminds me of Christmas at the theaters... it's worth a dive to watch all of them. It's well done and John Williams' music is enjoyable.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...:
"The Ebb Tide" is good too if he likes shipwrecks.
Also Captain Blood. He might also like Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
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@Catseye3 said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...:
@Aqua-Letifer said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...:
"The Ebb Tide" is good too if he likes shipwrecks.
Also Captain Blood. He might also like Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
Have you read those?
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Blood yes, Ivanhoe no.
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@Catseye3 said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...:
Blood yes, Ivanhoe no.
It's good. You should read it.
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He might be past it, but Men of Iron by Pyle is a good tale. Another are the two White Company books by Doyle.
Patrick O'Brians Aubrey-Maturin series is a great 20-book read, for Napoleonic War sea tales.
And...the Hornblower series are available free online for Canadians at The Faded Page.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...:
There's some very deep shit disguised as entertainment in those books.
In one of his podcasts, Jordan Peterson had a gobsmacked wonderment at how Rowling was able to compress so much into the quiddich game.
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@Renauda said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...:
Our son was never interested in the Potter books so I never read any of them. He seemed to go from
Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Dickens’ *Oliver Twist * in one move. His mother read Dickens in school and hated it. I read nothing by him although I’ve enjoyed BBC mini series on Dickens’ books.Kid is still reading Dickens. Says he wants to try Tolstoy next.
I hope when he got in trouble you gave him the dickens.