Re: how to make a viewer a reader??

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:48:35 GMT, "A Tsar Is Born"
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>"Bill O'Meally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> At 42 I still get great pleasure from reading TH.
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>So do I.
>But it's remeniscent pleasure, if you first read it when you were a kid, or
>if you know the trilogy well when you read it.
>It's a very difficult book to like if you read it as an adult the first
>time, and do not know the rest of the mythos. Very arch, very much adult
>writing DOWN to younger readers.
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Nonsense! I first read and liked The Hobbit when I was 27. I had not
yet memorized the LotR. I was just irritated because TH did not have
the original version of the riddle-game. I also like Roverrandom when
I first read it.

It is my belief that 'adults' who don't like 'children's' books are
not as old emotionally and intellectually as they would like everyone
to think they are. However, as every other genre, there are good and
bad children's books. (90% of all children's books are trash --
Sturgeon's Law)

If someone's girl friend is unable to read TH because it is a
children's book, she is immature. She should revert to Harlequin
Romances and other adult literature.


the softrat
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