Re: jewish characters in Salinger
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:41:40 +1000
Absolutely! The greatest reading satisfaction I've had in the past couple
of years is, I'm totally unafraid to admit, the re-reading of my childhood
favourites - pretty much all of which stand up extremely well. The `Emily'
series by L.M. Montgomery, the Little House on the Prairie series (always
one of my all time favourite things ever), of course the Narnia series (my
favourite always has been `The Magician's Nephew'; right now in fact I'm
re-reading the fantasy books of Diana Wynne Jones and finding surprisingly
deep amounts of religious allegory within. Children's books often have such
a purity and simplicity to them which I find very appealing.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
The Laughing Man wrote:
> I just bought “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, A Puffin Book edition in
> paperback from the early 60’s, with a cover illustration slightly out of
> focus to give the illusion of 3D- just beautiful! At a bookstand for $1,
I
> might add! I’ve never read C.S. Lewis in English, and even though I
planned
> to give it to a girl I’m dating (she is really fond of the Narnia-books),
> I’m almost tempted to read it myself first. Actually I have already
started.
>
> How many parents are reading aloud from their old Pooh-, Narnia-,
etc-books
> and wonder how they could ever put them away?
>
> Full of cute-ness and politically incorrect statements and beauty! What
> would we have done without the English college fellows living their life
in
> their own heads?
>
> /The Aslan Man
>
>
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