[HPFGU-OTChatter] HP fans in San Diego

[Ladi lyndi]

rmshowley <rmshowley at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
<snip> How come kids don't like those reading lists, full of 
'classics' that were popular a century ago? 
 
 
Lynn:
 
Just curious, by show of hands, how popular were those summer reading lists with the kids way back when?  While I always got the reading lists, I don't remember being particularly happy to be reading Old Man and The Sea, Moby Dick and the Scarlet Letter when I preferred to be swimming and riding my bike.  
 
Then again, maybe it was just me.  I think the popularlity wasn't with the kids but with the teachers.  I won't even include the parents as my mom probably got real tired of the whining about having to read when the sun was shining and we wanted to play.
 
While many of those same classics have captured my imagination as an adult, they did nothing for me as a teen.  Perhaps that's why there are new reading lists, instead of all classics which didn't necessarily connect with teens, HP and others appeal to a teens imagination.


 

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