[HPFGU-OTChatter] HP fans in San Diego

[Dina Lerret]

On 5/31/05, Ladi lyndi <ladilyndi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?

I believe the 'popular' is referencing frequency of assignment
(teacher/adult preferences) and not necessarily popular among kids. 
Regardless, what was popular a century ago didn't remain so, and I
also believe it'd be difficult for many to answer this question since
we weren't kids a century ago. ;-)  Possibly, more could answer from
experience about what was popular 1-5 decades ago.


> While many of those same classics have captured my imagination as an adult, they did nothing for me as a teen.  

I can appreciate these 'classics' on reflection but I didn't care for
them at the time.


> 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.

Err, by the way, did anyone else have "A Rose for Emily" for English
Lit in junior high? {g}  Hehe, nothing like discussing a character's
necrophilic tendency to sleep with a rotting corpse.

Dina