This movie opens with an entire planet of living robots BEING EATEN. Oh yeah, I made the mistake of showing this “kid’s movie” to my sons. I know it was just a big advertisement to get us to buy toy robots…but it meant something to me dang it! I also found the first 6 minutes of Transformers: The Movie completely devastating. I remember being pretty upset at the end of The Elfstones of Shannara. What is the first book that made you cry? Where the Red Fern Grows made me sob when I was a kid. It’s like there needs to be a shedding of expectations, an allowance to read for reading’s sake, and allow the story to dictate the pace rather than the reader. I recall being forced to read The Count of Monte Cristo in college and absolutely loathed it, but when I tried it again a few years ago, I was completely enraptured. However, if you’re reading it against your will it becomes absolutely miserable…which is unfortunate. Sooner or later you’ll feel what Holden was feeling, and Catcher is magical if you pick it up at that moment. I think you need to approach it a bit later. I think high schools do it a disservice by teaching it in Sophomore years. I think that The Catcher in the Rye is one of those books where there’s a small window in your life where it really hits you like a punch in the face. That’s not so awesome.Īnyway, w hat authors did you dislike at first but grew into? The kids LOVE reading them, which is awesome…until one starts using some of Calvin’s vocabulary at school and winds up seeing the principal as a result. OH MY GOSH YES! We found all our old Calvin & Hobbes collections when the basement flooded. Do other people identify that much with Calvin or is it just me? Also, I’ve been reading Calvin & Hobbes to my kids at night, and I’m always impressed by how much insight Bill Waterson has into the fundamental nature of childhood. I’m a big fan of Roald Dahl, it’s hard to pick one, maybe James and the Giant Peach. Haha, is that your favorite Narnia book? If I was to go with something from C.S. What is your favorite childhood book? C’mon, say Voyage of the Dawn Treader, you know you want to! Let’s talk first about reading awesome stuff. Thankfully I’m pleased as cheese ( that I can’t eat, but still, Wisconsin is the Dairyland State) that I can introduce you to multi-genre author Walter Rhein. 5? 6? In any case, writing’s pretty much out the window.
The kids are stuck home for yet another snow day.
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