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.
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Sep 15, 2008 7:47:05 am PDT #8746 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
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.
BWAH! Hope you're prepared to have a newly-created vegetarian at your table tonight!
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
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Cranioklepty: A History of Phrenological Graverobbing.
Famous skulls stolen from their graves: Mozart, Haydn, Descartes...
Dana - Sep 15, 2008 8:03:08 am PDT #8754 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Why is it, when you have a series of repair people in your house, each successive one looks at the work the previous one did and says "Oh, that's not right."
megan walker - Sep 15, 2008 8:05:20 am PDT #8755 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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!)
I'm sure that's true of most French people too. Besides Waterloo, there isn't much on major events. Mostly of the revolutionary stuff is small scale stuff from the early 1830s.
I don't think I've ever seen it on the shelf here, how many volumes does it usually come in?