While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...
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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.
Kind of a weird kid you got there.
(That was complimentary, by the way. I like that stuff too and I'm definitely treated as weird for it.)What does he like about Dickens? Any favorite stories?
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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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.
@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.
Please love yourself.
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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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@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.
@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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@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.
@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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@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?
Blood yes, Ivanhoe no.
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Blood yes, Ivanhoe no.
@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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@Jolly said in While I'm down the Potter rabbit hole...:
I had a daughter who was very much into the books. I've read them, and while they're really nothing new in concept, I think they're pretty well done, especially in the Wizarding World created.
Well, George likes entertainment along his particular interests, so I'd say he can skip these. I don't think it'd be his bag.
But there's more to Potter than entertainment. You don't get the worst possible reading demographic to wait in line for midnight releases of books because they're merely entertainment. That just doesn't happen.
I hated Potter for many, many years. I was completely wrong for doing so. There's some very deep shit disguised as entertainment in those books.
@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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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.
@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.
