Friday Five Meme
Aug. 25th, 2006 10:19 amfrom ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pearlsb4swine
1.What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
(this is all before age 10)
Madeline L'Engle - first the science fiction and then the poetry. I still always won at the car games when we got to the letter m and i pulled out mitochondria - wahoo bring it
Shel Silverstein - read his books over and over and over and over and
The Sweet Valley High series - i like to think it prepared me for the many ways that people can be horrible and manipulate each other. seriously. instead of just the soap opera value - it was like an education in if you treat someone like x they will react like y. i honestly believe that it has helped me a lot in life as far as 'getting' people
Stephen King - started reading him when i was about seven. loved it.
a general assortment of novels about horses, dance, wicca, the occult etc.
2. What was particularly special or memorable about those books?
See comments above - but also - I just loved to read. So did my mom. Since she was a teacher and had summers off, we would go to the library 3x a week, both check out 5 -6 books and then go to the lake and read. Everyday. All day.
3. Have you re-read any of them as an adult?
Stephen King on and off. Otherwise, not really.
4. If so, were the books as good as you remembered them?
Yes - and I 'got' things i hadn't before
5. What do you think about movies being made out of children's classics
Kids should read the books first, but why not? Also it can teach kids how movies or media based on lit isn't the end all be all authority on what things mean or how they should be. Since if they read them first, they already have their own interpretation.
pearlsb4swine1.What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
(this is all before age 10)
Madeline L'Engle - first the science fiction and then the poetry. I still always won at the car games when we got to the letter m and i pulled out mitochondria - wahoo bring it
Shel Silverstein - read his books over and over and over and over and
The Sweet Valley High series - i like to think it prepared me for the many ways that people can be horrible and manipulate each other. seriously. instead of just the soap opera value - it was like an education in if you treat someone like x they will react like y. i honestly believe that it has helped me a lot in life as far as 'getting' people
Stephen King - started reading him when i was about seven. loved it.
a general assortment of novels about horses, dance, wicca, the occult etc.
2. What was particularly special or memorable about those books?
See comments above - but also - I just loved to read. So did my mom. Since she was a teacher and had summers off, we would go to the library 3x a week, both check out 5 -6 books and then go to the lake and read. Everyday. All day.
3. Have you re-read any of them as an adult?
Stephen King on and off. Otherwise, not really.
4. If so, were the books as good as you remembered them?
Yes - and I 'got' things i hadn't before
5. What do you think about movies being made out of children's classics
Kids should read the books first, but why not? Also it can teach kids how movies or media based on lit isn't the end all be all authority on what things mean or how they should be. Since if they read them first, they already have their own interpretation.
