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Sep 19th, 2009, 13:10
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| bling it on  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: perth
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Sep 19th, 2009, 15:23
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| Swallows and Amazons --- me too. But then, I was boat-struck and middle-class English! Of course, one has to be able to get through the book (and the subsequent series) without guffawing too often at the idea of a girl called Titty  .Along similar lines, Enid Blyton's Famous Five includes a girl called George. The Comic Strip parody had all the "children" played by adults, the girls by Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French, giving rise to the wonderful (in context) line, "You're rather well-developed for a ten-year-old!". I can feel a Youtube session coming on... Arthur Ransome, by the way, was married to a Russian communist, who thought his books were dreadful, middle-class rubbish! I read them all again as an adult (not something I would do with the Famous Five) and, during my sailing days, we used to suggest We Didn't Mean to Go To Sea to potential novice crew members, so that they would have no illusions about small-yacht cruising being just a pleasure cruise! |
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Sep 19th, 2009, 15:30
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| lost in Mechuka member  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Crete
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| More suggestions for vko - "The Little Prince" by Antoine St Exupery "The Grand Meaulnes" by Alain Fournier "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Sep 19th, 2009, 15:33
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| The Narnia series The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe etc)? Also Lewis's scifi space travel trilogy. Both thinly disguised religious propoganda, but still brilliant. |
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Sep 19th, 2009, 19:06
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| She-who-must-be-obeyed!  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jaisalmer
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| vko - For 12 year olds - Roald Dahl, Harry Potter series, Artemis Fowle series, any science fiction for older children, Narnia books, as Nick recommends, all go down quite well. A good thing would be to visit a good bookshop and ask them what 12 year old boys are reading. Fashions change immensely over the years, and there is always a more recent, good author coming along with popular books for this age group. Bookshops can advise you in this regard. When I was 12 I borrowed and was getting really absorbed in James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan, all about a very raunchy 15 year old boy. My father was shocked I was allowed to borrow this from the Public Library, and marched me and the book back there, whereby he complained that 12 year old girls should not be permitted to read such material! My first encounter with censorship - I was very upset because I really wanted to read it. Funnily enough I have never read the trilogy yet - just never came across it later - but bringing this episode back to mind, makes me think I shall be on the lookout for it, when next I head back to some good public libraries in Oz or NZ!
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Sep 19th, 2009, 19:29
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: sydney
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| I just read Dan Brown's latest novel, "The Lost Symbol", which deals with Masons in the US. Or I should say I skipped the first 350 pages, as it was so predictable, stereotyped and boring. I was hoping he'd deal with modern day Rosicrucions, but unfortunately no luck. The rest was less so, but that's not saying a lot. Perhaps some will enjoy it, although I think this enjoyment would require a fascination with the history of Washington DC. Generally,though, I think once you've read one Dan Brown novel, you know where the plot is going. |
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Sep 19th, 2009, 23:45
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| A visit to a library or bookshop might be a really good idea, with the advice to pick a few things that look interesting, either read a few lines at random, or see if the first paragraph or two interest him or grab his attention. That's more or less how I buy books for myself right now. |
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Sep 20th, 2009, 00:11
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| Infidel Sufi  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: styx
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| Kabir's 'Bijak' (the seedling) and Kabir's doha's in Hindi (ok, two books, actually). One of my favourite mystic poets. Extraordinary. Lost in translation but... I have burned my own house, the torch is in my hand. Now I will burn the house of anyone who wants to follow me
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Sep 20th, 2009, 00:41
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Delhi
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| From Heaven Lake... travels through Sinkiang and Tibet this book is written by Vikram Seth in 1983 before he wrote "a suitable boy" and became popular with it. picked it up from a trveller friend... vinay Just started reading it! |
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Sep 20th, 2009, 09:13
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| bling it on Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: perth
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and the narnia series. and the anne of green gables series. | |
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Sep 20th, 2009, 09:42
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| Naan.tering Nabob  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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Oct 1st, 2009, 09:37
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| I just finished "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" Highly recommended. A brilliant Pakistani struggles to adapt to life in the US and hurtles towards an ambiguous fate in his home country. |
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Oct 1st, 2009, 11:48
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Oct 10th, 2009, 22:43
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| loved Wake up SID... though my friends didn't liked it much... whats ur say
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Oct 10th, 2009, 23:07
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| brother my cup is empty member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: yörp
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| Is it a book? Shouldn't this have been in the What Movies are you looking at thread?
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