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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    Snobby.
    Synonym for adult?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    You do your best to raise them right, but you never really know. I'll expose my little jelly bean to St. Augustine, Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk. That's all a loving father can really do. In the end, you can only run along side the bike for so long before they begin keeping it upright themselves.

    As long as she's happy (sigh).
    Haha. I must have been a huge disappointment to my Thatcher loving grandparents when I turned out to be an ardent socialist

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    Snobby.

    I always loved British children's fantasy novels, so I greatly appreciated them, they are right up my alley. The fantasy world Rowling created was thorough, she is masterful. but she is also overly detailed and the novels were in great need of chopping.

    but if you dont much like fantasy, then i guess you wouldnt be attracted to the HP books.
    I tried getting my kid interested in The Wind in the Willows. She thought it was boring, but I was totally absorbed. It may be that the best childrens' lit can be read on multiple levels.

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    Agatha Christie used to churn them out too, and I read them long ago and enjoyed all of them--including the ones she wrote under various noms de plume.

    I haven't read the Potter books, but I appreciate the detail Rowling brought to them. As I understand it, she wrote the first one while on the UK version of welfare. And I can hardly think of a better deal; she's more than repaid the government in tax monies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler View Post
    She might end up reading Kurt Vonnegut or Sam Harris or Alice Walker. haha!

    Sorry, I tease.

    You have a pretty darned good outlook about it. I respect that.
    I believe that with the proper intellectual preparation it is possible to be amused by Vonnegut without buying into his philosophy of infantilization.

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    Quote Originally Posted by greenclaire View Post
    Haha. I must have been a huge disappointment to my Thatcher loving grandparents when I turned out to be an ardent socialist
    I'm sure you must have had many other good qualities they could be proud of. And there's always the hope of redemption.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    I believe that with the proper intellectual preparation it is possible to be amused by Vonnegut without buying into his philosophy of infantilization.
    In college one of my bitter enemies in campus politics -- a very conservative guy -- loved K-Von. We briefly bonded over it. I was shocked! haha

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    Great. Just when I get my daughter to think there may be more to lit than Harry Potter, and to dip her toe into Nancy Drew where the girls aren't just supporting characters.

    I don't know how people who can pump out 1-2 titles a year do it. Maybe they just have a toolbox of plots and subplots they can easily assemble in infinite different combinations.
    Unless they've rewritten the books, Nancy and her friends almost always get into a situation where they need rescuing by their boyfriends or other male characters.

    Try your daughter on Madeline L'Engel's books, A Wrinkle in Time, Meet the Austins, (both the first book in a series) or the Dragonsinger books by Anne McCaffrey. She might also like Understood Betsy and Sensible Kate. And Elizabeth Enright's books. And E. Nesbit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss Cellane View Post
    Unless they've rewritten the books, Nancy and her friends almost always get into a situation where they need rescuing by their boyfriends or other male characters.

    Try your daughter on Madeline L'Engel's books, A Wrinkle in Time, Meet the Austins, (both the first book in a series) or the Dragonsinger books by Anne McCaffrey. She might also like Understood Betsy and Sensible Kate. And Elizabeth Enright's books. And E. Nesbit.
    Thanks! I've printed out your post.

    This isn't a particular area of expertise for me, and I'm not what you'd call a raging feminist, but I like the idea that some of her literary world should be populated with females in strong roles. I guess I should be thrilled that she reads for pleasure at all, based on what I see of her friends. To some degree, I have Mr. Potter to thank for that.

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    I quite like JKR's detective novels.

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