he likes the movie and thinks the TV show is not well done
I felt the same way until I blundered upon Once More With Feeling one lazy morning. I liked how campy the movie was and I thought the TV show took itself too seriously. This opinion was based on a couple episodes of Season 1.
Deena, the books are all by John Christopher and the series, in order, is: When the Tripods Came, The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, The Pool of Fire
I might be going to a couple used book stores this weekend. If I run across any of these I'll pick them up and get them to you. I pulled out my copies to make sure I got the titles in order. Now I think I'll just have to read them again before putting them away.
Oh GG! I absolutely LOVED those books when I was a kid. I think they may have been my introduction to science fiction, actually. I'd been meaning to figure out the titles and author for ages. Thanks!
No problem! I remembered reading them as a kid and later couldn't remember the names, either. When I would describe the books people would look at me like I was crazy and, for a short time, I thought I had dreamed them.
About 12 years ago I was on a drama competition trip. One of the chaperones was a guy about my age. We got along great and became good friends. He and I discovered a similar passion for books and started trading some of the books we brought.
The third morning at the festival, I discovered him outside his room. As I walked down the hallway he looked up and asked me if I had read the book he was holding. I could barely believe he was holding up a copy of The City of God and Lead! When I told him I had been looking for the series for years, he grinned, pulled out the other 3 books and gave me the set for 'putting up with him' on the trip.
When I would describe the books people would look at me like I was crazy and, for a short time, I thought I had dreamed them.
HA! I had the
exact
same experience. That's hysterical!
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one!
I'm in good company! I could never get anyone to believe that series existed until Greg. Thanks for the tip, GG. Please don't go to any trouble, but if you do run across them, I will gladly pay you for them and their postage.
Oh, I remembered the tripods book, but I don't think I ever read the rest of them. Huh. I may not have known there WERE others!
The Oz books are uneven, but my God, that man's imagination could sing, and he was absolutely fearless about taking every single crazy "what-if" that bounced into his head and setting it loose to run glorious riot.
That's what I love about the Oz books--the unfettered and beautiful strangeness. There was a creepiness to some of it, too, that verged on horror.
Deena, I'd offer to send you our copy of the tripod series, but I think DH would kill me. (They were his as a child - I'd never heard of them until we moved in together.)