[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Adult readers who are dismissive about Harry Potter

[Iggy McSnurd]

> Sylvia
> 
> Iggy, glad to hear you love The Phantom Tollbooth, a brilliant book
> that should be required reading for people of any age from 9 to 90.
> But you don't enjoy Dickens!!! Oh you poor man, what you are missing!
> No one writes like our Charlie, not even JKR.
> Do give him another go.

Iggy here:

Personally, I'm more inclined to read Lewis Carrol than Dickens, but
I'll make you a deal:  You give me one, reasonably short, Dickens story
or book to read, and I'll read it (assuming I can get my hands on a
copy.)  In return, I'll select a book or story for you to read.  (You'll
have to send me a short list of authors you don't really like so that I
can see if any of them are ones I might like...)


Iggy McSnurd


The Jabberwocky
- by Lewis Carrol
(transcribed from memory by Iggy McSnurd)

T'was brylig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gambol in the wabe
All mimsey were the borogroves
And the mom rathes ourgrabe

Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that snatch
Beware the Jubjub bird and shun,
The frumious Bandersnatch

He took his vorpal sword in hand
Long his manxome foe he sought
So rested he, by the tumtum tree
And stood a while in thought

And as in uffush thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes aflame
Came whuffling through the tulgy wood
And burbled as it came

One two, one two and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker - snack
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back

And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms my beamish boy!
Oh frabjuous day! Caloo callay!
He chortled in his joy

T'was brylig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gambol in the wabe
All mimsey were the borogroves
And the mom rathes ourgrabe