figmentPez
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Oh, this one too:
Maniac Magee, I still read this one from time to time.
Maniac Magee, I still read this one from time to time.
Books every geek should read to their kid
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Anyone read the Fablehaven books? I enjoyed them. The characters were a little annoying but the story was good.
That's why I love that ending so much. It's a classroom book and shows kids how to decipher their own endings; create their own ideas about how it should end. Instead of being a bunch of spoon-fed dummies.I just remembered something about The Giver.
Did anyone else have to read it in junior high or high school? I think I had to read it for grade 10 english. The project we had to do based on it was either supply and ending or write a story about what happened when they left the city.
I chose the former and wrote about Fiona (?) leaving the city in search of the main character. I think I may need to read the book again to remember my own story.
It was the first fan fic I ever wrote.
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The second one is in the same universe and the last one is more of a sequel. But it doesn't really feel like it because she doesn't clarify much.
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If the guy in the second book is interpreted as the kid from the first book, which is how I see it because it makes me happy to think so, then it all kind of flows together. If not it is just a series of somewhat dystopian futures. Which is ok. But I feel the story could have been less disjointed if there were more flow to it.
Gathering Blue, is so horrific at parts. At least for me, I was pretty much reading it thinking oh my god something good has to happen eventually, these people suck.
It's still a great series. Especially the last book. That one I really enjoyed. I enjoyed Gathering Blue but I almost feel guilty doing so. It's like enjoying watching someone be tortured lol.
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Gathering Blue, is so horrific at parts. At least for me, I was pretty much reading it thinking oh my god something good has to happen eventually, these people suck.
It's still a great series. Especially the last book. That one I really enjoyed. I enjoyed Gathering Blue but I almost feel guilty doing so. It's like enjoying watching someone be tortured lol.
edited because i confused myself
I personally wasn't a huge fan of The Giver. Part of it stems from the ending and part of it had to do with the story itself, and part of it had to do with the writing style. Just didn't jive with me over all.
If you're going to have Clifford, I also think Berenstain Bears needs to be on that list as well.
If you're going to have Clifford, I also think Berenstain Bears needs to be on that list as well.
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It doesn't have to end with "and they all lived happily ever after" or anything. But good story telling has the story end at a point where the story has some resolution. It doesn't have to complete the characters story it just has to complete the event sequence. If the giver had ended with him seeing the village or something I would have been satisfied. Because it was the end of one part and beginning of the other. But as it ended it was just nowhere.
HHGTG doesn't end with them all at home growing old, they are heading off on a new adventure but the first one had a resolution point.
Hell yes Berenstain Bears! I love those books to this day. I intend to own them all someday.
HHGTG doesn't end with them all at home growing old, they are heading off on a new adventure but the first one had a resolution point.
Hell yes Berenstain Bears! I love those books to this day. I intend to own them all someday.
I still completely disagree. Resolution is a construct that is not in any way necessary to have an awesome story. We've just been conditioned to believe that things need to be resolved. It's not realistic to the way things work in real life and is actually more lazy on the part of the reader than on the part of the author.
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It's like Stephen King. Now there is a guy who should leave his endings ambiguous because they suck. It is difficult to write an ending to a story and a bad ending can leave the reader with a big wtf. I get that. But I still think the choose your own adventure format is lazy.
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For that.. we need a zen tag.
What the Dickens is supposed to be good too. My friend recommended it to me. I wasn't really engaged by it, but I bet kids would love it.
What the Dickens is supposed to be good too. My friend recommended it to me. I wasn't really engaged by it, but I bet kids would love it.
figmentPez
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YES.
I don't believe it's an eljuski. I believe ElJuskis are stories that believe they are better than the reader.
Given that description I have to wonder how my stories come off.
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I think Barthes wrote about that...
Ah the Pretentious Douchebag genre.
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I loved the true story of the 3 little pigs!
The art was a little creepy but the concept was so fun.
The art was a little creepy but the concept was so fun.
Holy crap, I had those MEMORIZED. My parents found it hilarious.
This is the first book I memorized:
I was three, and I took the book to my dad and started pretending I was reading. I knew what was on each page, so I was turning the pages at the right times and everything. My dad was ready to declare me a freaking genius! My mom finally started busting up laughing and told him what was really going on.
I was three, and I took the book to my dad and started pretending I was reading. I knew what was on each page, so I was turning the pages at the right times and everything. My dad was ready to declare me a freaking genius! My mom finally started busting up laughing and told him what was really going on.
figmentPez
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I learned to read along with my older sister (I'm 3 years younger). At first my parents thought I was just memorizing the books, but I guess I proved otherwise. I don't remember any of this; I've been able to read for as far back as my memory goes.
When I was in first grade the teachers put me in a remedial reading class because I was so bored by the books I just skipped them for my own. By then I was already reading Superfudge and the like (BTW, how great is Judy Blume). When you're already reading narrative stories, "the dog chewed the ball" doesn't quite cut it.
When my mom found out, she freaked and had the teacher actually test my reading comprehension. That was when they recommended I skip the second grade. My mom held me back, though. Thought it would impede my development.
When my mom found out, she freaked and had the teacher actually test my reading comprehension. That was when they recommended I skip the second grade. My mom held me back, though. Thought it would impede my development.
Started reading at 3. The Thorndike Barnhart dictionary was my first favorite book. I loved that thing. It had the answers to all the "what's this?" questions when other people didn't know.ITT: Impress everyone with how early you began to read.
Danny Dunn was amazing for a kid growing up who wanted to know more about everything. I devoured every volume of that series I could find, and even bought a copy of The Magic Grandfather just to see how they did with Fantasy (pretty well, actually).
I have never read A Mouse and His Child, but I remember loving the movie.
Two other series I don't see on that list whose omissions are positively criminal: The Three Investigators and Encyclopedia Brown.
--Patrick
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Oh yeah Encyclopedia Brown. I love that series.
Oh sure, just point out how embarrassed I should be I don't know how to read.ITT: Impress everyone with how early you began to read.
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