Comments on: Never condescend to kids

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:11:00 +0000

Yeah, must admit I think I will be heartily sick of the US elections too eventually, Jo - in spite of their in astonishment-inducing entertainment value.

Hisham - thank you so much. That comment came at a very opportune moment when I was feeling a bit down. Much appreciated.

Satima - ditto!

By: Satima Flavell

Satima Flavell — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:44:00 +0000

Gee, I hope not, Jo. That Hideous Strength is seriously scary in parts – the beheading scene, forex. I wouldn’t like to see a seven year old read it.

But won’t it be great if eventually she does read all of CS Lewis’s oeuvre and proceeds onwards to Tolkien and others, such as Glenda Larke!:-)

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:16:00 +0000

I must admit, politics bores me and American politics bores me even more. To know that we still have the best part of a year of TV advertising until they have come to the November elections fills me with horror.

About authors, C.S. Lewis did write other stuff besides the Narnia books. His trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra or Voyage to Venus and That Hideous Strength were great books (admittedly with religious overtones) but Hideous Strenght is one of my faves of all time. Maybe that's what the young girl was referring to.

By: hrugaar

hrugaar — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:42:00 +0000

Time magazine ran an article some weeks back on ‘What Hillary Believes’ (or says she believes). I thought it might be more worthwhile to run an article entitled ‘What Hillary Did’ (or allegedly did – some of us remember) … but maybe they’ll leave that until the muck-raking stage of the campaigns. 😀

Interestingly, Time just voted Vladimir Putin as their Person of the Year, with China’s Hu Jintao as a runner up. Are they hedging their bets for the future…?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:22:00 +0000

Hiya, I commented a while ago asking where I could find your books (the Isles of Glory) in Malaysia. Not sure if you remember me though...

I did get all your books, and finished them a few months ago. Not sure why I'm only bothering to post now, but here goes.

All in all, thank you for causing the sleepless nights spent reading your books. I loved them all. I stayed up all night to finish book three, and missed a class (and a quiz); it's fine though, I got an A in the class anyway. :)

If I had to pick my favorite aspect of the trilogy, it would be the pace and breathlessness of it. Good writing holds my attention, but it's a riveting plot that makes me stay up all night. :) Again, thank you for writing the books, I loved them.

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:50:00 +0000

Actually, that whole politicians- kissing-babies thing creeps me out generally. And I'd like to think that the next President of the US of A, if s/he did number a children's author among her/his favourites, could come up with someone a little more challenging than Dr Seuss!! *g*

The distant election is proving to be wonderfully insane entertainment though.

By: hrugaar

hrugaar — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:37:00 +0000

Hm, posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa with little girls has just that edge of creepiness that would make me hesitate to vote him in, regardless of politics or reading level. :S

It reminded me of Dubya's comment at some swank electioneering dinner (years ago) that his adversary had written a book, but he himself had read one. Or perhaps the emphasis should have been on the one, I forget...

I admit some of my favourite authors are still children's authors (though I can say that without pausing to think).

[PS: disillusioned]