Do not, under any circumstances, let your 9 year old read Les Miserables, or to your 12 year old to read To The Lighthouse, no matter how advanced you think they might be.
Les Misérables is so long, I can't even imagine picking it up to read at 9.
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
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megan walker - Sep 15, 2008 7:42:41 am PDT #8744 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
javachik - Sep 15, 2008 7:46:30 am PDT #8745 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
I was 11 when I read it, and enjoyed it very much. I even took to calling myself Cosette in my more dramatic moments.
The book that I picked up at 8 that wrecked me emotionally was Watership Down.
Gudanov - Sep 15, 2008 7:47:05 am PDT #8746 of 10003
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Do not, under any circumstances, let your 9 year old read Les Miserables
No problem, I'm thinking of getting her a copy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle instead.
javachik - Sep 15, 2008 7:48:17 am PDT #8747 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
No problem, I'm thinking of getting her a copy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle instead.
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JZ - Sep 15, 2008 7:49:35 am PDT #8748 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I first read Animal Farm at five, and read it over and over again with great pleasure for the next year and a half. At some point it occurred to me that there was something dodgy going on in the narrative, and somewhere around my seventh birthday I thrust it back at my mom and said bitterly, "You can take this back. I'm not going to read it anymore. It's not really about animals at all."
megan walker - Sep 15, 2008 7:49:54 am PDT #8749 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Not to mention that Hugo's vocabulary is notoriously huge. But I wonder if translation somehow mitigates that.
Jessica - Sep 15, 2008 7:49:54 am PDT #8750 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I read Les Mis in middle school, so I was probably 10 or 11. I loved it.
javachik - Sep 15, 2008 7:52:13 am PDT #8751 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
See, Jess and I have it in common.
I don't remember any huge words that weren't easily figureableoutable due to context. I am sure a lot of the revolution stuff went over my head, but the individual stories were what enthralled me.
Jessica - Sep 15, 2008 7:55:29 am PDT #8752 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I am sure a lot of the revolution stuff went over my head, but the individual stories were what enthralled me.
Oh yeah, I'm sure there was a ton of politics I was missing, but I loved it anyway. I even read most of the random digressions (100 pages on the sewers, whee!)
DavidS - Sep 15, 2008 7:59:21 am PDT #8753 of 10003
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