hooo.

[kaigou]

Kifed this link from Tiercel, who had it posted awhile back but I'd never followed it...damn, I should've. You want Narnia? You want Disney doing Narnia? Here's your response, babe.

Cripes, they're doing a live-action version of Charlotte's Web...with Julia Roberts as Charlotte? Yegawdz.

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[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I only read the first book (LWaW). I just never really got into the rest, though my sister read the entire series. CP still bugs me every now and then that I won't read the rest, but then, I didn't read Alice in Wonderland or Wizard of Oz, either. Ah, yes, I had a strange childhood.

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

The main children's books I read in my teenage years were Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books. Believe it or not, my favorite author when I was in high school was Charles Dickens. I read a lot of his work (without being forced to for English class). Later, in college, I finally got around to reading Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series.

I think I was the only high school student who voluntarily read T E Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I was fascinated with him back then, even if I don't think I really understood a lot of the politics going on in his lifetime.

I was a weird kid who grew up into a geeky adult. ^_^

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Hey, when the rest of the kids were reading Catcher in the Rye, I practiced civil disobediance and refused. I never did get past the second paragraph. Glancing through, nothing caught my eye. Just seemed so...done. (Well, it is, now, given its age.) So, bored in class, I picked up a book that looked cool, called Invisible Man...and yes, I really did spend the first two chapters wondering when the main character would turn invisible, just like that movie from the forties (and the book was set in 30s and 40s, so it seemed reasonable to me this was the book the movie was based on)... by the time i realized the point was that the character was invisible, for all intents and purposes, I was hooked. One of the most powerful books I read in high school, really.

[sharm.livejournal.com]

I was an avid reader, and I didn't read most of those until I was in my mid to late teens. I had this thing against reading books at my "age level" when I was young though. So I guess we both had a strange childhood. ^_^

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I was reading Shogun under my desk in fifth grade. Somehow, reading any of the children's classics seems a bit...anti-climactic, y'know? Although I did discover Kipling in high school, and tore through everything but, oddly, the Jungle Book. Someday I'll read that. Eventually.

*eyes piles of books-to-be-read lying around the house*

[sharm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was a bit anti-climatic, but I was desperate for reading material at that age. (More to the point, reading material that my mom wasn't going to catch me reading and decide I needed more parental input in that department. I read way too much at that age, and it actually got to the point where being banned from all but school books until my grades got better was a real possibility.)

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

Actually, The Magician's Nephew is the first in the Narnia series - it's where a boy and a girl fall into a completely empty universe and witness its birth. Actually, it was a whole lot of worlds, where the nexus between them was a flat plain with pools of water, each pool being the enterance to a different world. They also saw a world die, I think..... I remember it had an old sun, or something.

The kids actually bring the lamppost and/or the Witch into Narnia in the first place, I think. Which is probably why they didn't choose to adapt the first one. Well, that and it probably has a slower pace/more settings than the second.

It was one of the series that really, really stuck with me - I haven't read it in years and years. Especially liked the bit in Voyage of the Dawn Treader where the one boy, err.... spoiler for future movies?

Never read the other two books you mentioned either. Alice in Wonderland always give me the heebie jeebies anyhow >_o;;; I went from Enid Blyton to (whoever wrote)Nancy Drew to Anne McCaffrey and Terry Prattchet and Tanya Huff and never looked back *g* Though now my bookworm tendencies have to share space with my anime addiction.

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