On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, H. T. wrote:
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>>You gave him LOVECRAFT and you are complaining that he's too
>>young for CS Lewis and Vlad??!?!?!?!!!
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>I know! I know! This is how I know for positive that my father and
>fathers wife would KILL ME if I gave him anything to mature. I
>believe they told me as they ripped it out of his hands while he read
>it aloud.
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Oho-HO! So *that's* what you have been hiding behind your innocent
query!
I see that no one has yet mentioned Terry Pratchett. I guess that
it's up to me, then.
Besides the obvious Discworld books, he's written 2 non-Discworld
series that are aimed more specifically at younger readers. Those are
the Johnny Maxwell books & the Bromeliad (Truckers, Diggers, Wings).
There's also "The Amazing Maurice & his Educated Rodents", which is
Discworld.
Terry Pratchett's books tend to have a strong humanist motif, and
there's a certain subversiveness in many of them. The more recent
ones do have a certain darkness to them, but unless the parental units
read the books themselves, cover to cover, they probably won't see it.
( "Question Authority", because Authority may not know what the hell
it's doing )
"Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was
its tendency to bend at the knees."
-- Cmdr. Vimes on kings, "Feet of Clay", by Terry Pratchett.