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Mon May 04, 2009 6:26 am
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Mon May 04, 2009 6:15 am
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Styphon Wizard Random Sempai Rei Davidson Wizard Random Sempai Styphon wafflezinmahpantz Try reading it with a teacher who WILL NOT. SHUT UP. ABOUT. THE PROSE.
IT'S AMAZING, WE GET IT! stressed
Well, I still liked it afterwards.
Phon's reading bane is a whole category that haunted him (and his sister) all through elementary school... Where the Red Fern Grows, Sounder, Ole Yeller... OK, we get it, the people handing out awards for children's literature have a sick fetish for killing off dogs, now can we PLEASE stop making these books required reading just cause they've got shiny medals on the cover? Oh nos, another TV Tropes link. *will be reading for hours*
Also, I liked Bridge to Teribithia. was a liiiittle upset when Disney hyped it into a movie.
But other than that, my favorite books as a kid were not Newberry Award winners.
The creators of the movie were utterly pissed with Disney's marketing of the film as well.
But the movie was beautifully true to the book, so it's not horrible.
Phon never had to read it (watched the movie though stressed ), but his sister hated that book... and one of his online non-Gaia friends had issues with it since he just went and replaced his dead friend with his sister... terribly anti-feminist, she thought
Phon's glad to see he's not the only one who noticed this Death by Newbery thing... he's also glad that he has to be at work in an hour and can use that to keep from going on a ten hour tvtropes binge. Paranormal Activity, a webcomic | Rei's DeviantArt | La Boutique Argentée, an art shop
The anti-feminist thing is odd I think. I dunno that he "replaced" so much as he learned to appreciate what he had and his relationships. He realized that he didn't want his sister to be as lonely and dejected as he was before he met his friend girl person, and so he showed her what had made him snap out of it.
Like he goes from hating his dad to starting to see his dad's way of thinking and realizing that at times he is a good father. It's a definate coming of age story.
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Mon May 04, 2009 6:07 am
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Brass Goggles I kinda dont like it when I go out and read a classic or a award winning book and I am expected to like it because it is a classic or a award winning book.
I read "War and Peace" and when I mention to my English teacher that I had read it and did not like it he almost attacked me. The book had a entire paragraph describing how this one dress made this 15 year olds cleavage look super amazing. sweatdrop NEVER criticize a classic book inf ront of an English teacher. Even if it SUCKS. D:
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Mon May 04, 2009 6:04 am
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recondite sumpter :youtubes: S'ok, I guess
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Mon May 04, 2009 5:42 am
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Kai LittleBlackSmith Rei Davidson wafflezinmahpantz Can I just shamelessly plug peregrine falcons for a moment? Aren't they cute? Couldn't you just sit around for an entire day checking back on them like I have? sweatdrop Oooh I came just in time for feeding time!
... *moves one of the babies out from underneath the others* sweatdrop Poor thing is being trampled.
Oh! One of the parents is back!
"Hi, babies! I brought you a deadthing! Here, eat the deadthing!" "Yaaay!"
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gonk I take that back, I did read Walk Two Moons. And in all fairness, that doesn't have anywhere near the same tragic, insta-death feel as the others. Lots of happy things happened in that book and the worst of the tradgedy was over before the book even began.
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Sun May 03, 2009 5:18 pm
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Wizard Random Sempai Styphon wafflezinmahpantz Brass Goggles Wizard Random Sempai
The book that is the bane of my existence is "A Thousand Acres"
Taking the most beautiful Shakespearean tragedy ever and taking out everything decent about the main character does NOT make your story "better" Mine is "The Grapes of Wrath"
I had to read it for history class and even though I love reading I could just not get past the first chapter. Try reading it with a teacher who WILL NOT. SHUT UP. ABOUT. THE PROSE.
IT'S AMAZING, WE GET IT! stressed
Well, I still liked it afterwards.
Phon's reading bane is a whole category that haunted him (and his sister) all through elementary school... Where the Red Fern Grows, Sounder, Ole Yeller... OK, we get it, the people handing out awards for children's literature have a sick fetish for killing off dogs, now can we PLEASE stop making these books required reading just cause they've got shiny medals on the cover? Oh nos, another TV Tropes link. *will be reading for hours*
Also, I liked Bridge to Teribithia. was a liiiittle upset when Disney hyped it into a movie.
But other than that, my favorite books as a kid were not Newberry Award winners.
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Sun May 03, 2009 5:13 pm
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mitsubachi maelstrom Kai LittleBlackSmith Is it just me, or is the Thread moving as fast as the good ol' days? I just check "My Posts" in the forum menu, since I only post here and in my art thread. That way I just start fromt he last thing I said and go from there.
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