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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[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.