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Books for little girls
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: shmokes on March 20, 2012, 12:52:25 pm ---Have any of you ever actually read Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator? I had read the Chocolate Factory multiple times in my life but this is the first time I've ever read its sequel. It is garbage. I can't understand it. It's as though it is not even written by the same person. Or maybe Dahl suffered a head injury and for a time his sense of humor and imagination were drastically, though temporarily, compromised. Slogging through the chapters every night has been painful.
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I read it in 4th grade or so. Vicious knids or something like that? I think if you're 8 or 9, it makes perfect sense.
HaRuMaN:
Vermicious knids... ;D
I liked it...
shmokes:
Sure . . . sure . . . but that's faint praise. Kids may not be able to articulate or recognize the difference in quality between, say, Toy Story and Pocahontas, but the difference is nevertheless there. And even if Maddy doesn't recognize how crappy this book is, it seems very much to me that she doesn't enjoy it nearly to the extent that she's enjoyed all the other Roald Dahl books we've read, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which we read immediately before starting The Great Glass Elevator.
In short, kids no doubt will enjoy Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, but kids enjoy all kinds of garbage.
Edit: don't you love when you type something like "does" when you mean "does not"
Hoopz:
I think the important thing to focus on is that a child reads and that they enjoy it. It's no different than other books that aren't well written. Children that read do infinitely better at school than those that don't. I've yet to see a study that compares children that read crappy books to those that read better written books. I wouldn't get too worked up about it.
I used to think that Grisham wrote some good novels, and to an extent, he did. The first few books in his career were much better written than the drivel he started putting out later. Maybe Roald was writing to complete X number of books with his publisher, had lost a bunch on the Super Bowl, etc.
shmokes:
You misunderstand. I'm not talking about the books my daughter reads. I'm talking about the books that are read to her. By me. You see my predicament. ;D
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