[the_old_crowd] A Look Back was Re: 'Clue to his vulnerability' (Coming to a conclusion )

[Parker Brown Nesbit]

(Quite a bit of snippage)



>My question is what is the similarity amoungst us? Adults dissecting
>a so called childrens books.  From the introductions I have read,
>most of us are from different areas of the world with varying
>backgrounds. Is it that we are all kids at heart? This probably will
>not be answered but I thought I would throw it out anyway :o)
>
>Fran
>still lurking....

Frankly, I think children's (and young adult) fiction is some of the best 
that's being written these days.  I'm not as into dissecting HP as some of 
you, but I've enjoyed the ride (all in all--there are *still* some things I 
wish she'd done differently).

As a child and young adult, I was quite busy reading books that were on my 
level--meaning adult books (I was reading at 2, Shakespeare, the Bible, and 
pretty much everything else came at 4)--I just didn't like kids' books, and 
only discovered them when I was in college, taking a Children's Lit class 
for my Library Science degree.

I like a book where I can totally lose myself in the world.  To take a 
couple of examples,  I'm currently reading "Will of the Empress" by Tamora 
Pierce and the Aubrey/Maturin novels by Partick O'Brian.  Both of these have 
characters who seem real to me and places that seem real (O'Brian included a 
few made-up places.  These are as real to me as the places that do exist). 
The O'Brian books serve as well as a textbook for both me and Doug (my 
husband), as we do Royal Navy reenacting.

And yes, I'm still a kid at heart (sometimes in action too ;).


Parker