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So I've ben...

So I've ben reading just classics for a while, cuz I started to read the English translation of  The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is not only suuuper-classic, but also translated. So.

Anyway iIve been reading classics in the meantime to help me get along.

I'm currently reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Silver Chair  and Lassie Come-Home. I've also read recently The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and...um...

I forget. Anyway other Classics I've read are:

Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Secret Garden, Black Beauty, The Black Stallion, two of its sequels, Just So Stories, The Wind In the Willows, The Hobbit, Winnie-the-Pooh, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, White Fang, Stuart Little, A Wrincle In Time, A Wind In The Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, Peter Pan, the first 5 Chronicles of Narnia, King of the Wind, The Adventures of Saint Nicholas, and.. um... a lot more. Here's some I've been meaning  to read:

 

Heidi, Les Miserables, Robinson Crusoe, Anne of Green Gables, The Call Of the Wild, To Kill A Mockingbird, Kidnapped, the last books of The Chronicles of Narnia, and I can't think of any more just now, but.. whatev.

 

So, has anybody here read those books/others? Admins?

See ya!

 

Vick says vbmr. huh....

 

~~~NDT~~~

 

Yes, I've read many of them, but not all. Some I think are a bit advance for age 10, like To Kill a Mockingbird and Les Miserables, but those are two of the greatest books of all time and definitely two of my favorites. I rememby my mother reading Heidi to me and my sisters when I was very young (I'm the baby of the family). Gotta go.

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submitted by NDT, age 10, Bookland
(August 18, 2011 - 6:31 pm)

back to the Blab about Books

I have read Anne of Green Gables and the three sequels after that, the first, second, and fourth Narnia books, Heidi (but I think it was abridged), Pollyanna, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (I read it in third grade and it was abridged), and that's all I can remember. I also have a bunch of classics in my room and tried to read Treasure Island a few years ago, but it was too hard. I'm probably going to start reading The Secret Garden (I really didn't like the movie for some reason, so I wasn't too keen on the book, but I read the first few sentences a few months ago and thought it looked interesting) soon.

I also read a bit of Little Woman in fourth grade and an abridged Pride and Prejudice but they don't count IMO. And my mom tried to get me to read To Kill a Mockingbird and something on Orange Street but I had to wait for my exam to be over and by then, I was already reading some other book.

I really want to read Les Misrables because it's in France (right?) and I just so happen to be listening to 'On My Own' which I really like right now...

 

Yes, Les Miserables is set in France at the time of the French Revolution.

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submitted by Olive
(August 18, 2011 - 8:42 pm)

TOP!

submitted by TOP
(August 19, 2011 - 11:32 am)

I've read the first 5 Anne of Green Gables books; they were excellent. I've also read the Narnia books, lots of Roald Dahl's books including all of the ones you mentioned, King of the Wind and some other Marguerite Henry books, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, the Madeleine L'engle books you mentioned, Peter Pan, Heidi, The Secret Garden, Jane Eyre, and Little Women. I loved them all except Little Women, which I actually didn't like at all. I've read plenty of others, too, but they're not coming to mind right now. Oh, and the Bible, and the Gathas (an anient Zoroastrian religeous text), and I'm planning to read Walden, and... well, really I'm planning to read everything; I don't know what I'll get around to, but I love classics in general.

submitted by Ima, age 13, Weissnichtwo
(August 19, 2011 - 2:14 pm)

Yeah, Les Miserables and To Kill a Mockingbird are probably pretty hard...but I did say I was going to read them. I didn't necessarily mean now.

 

And in my opinion abridged books are trash...the abridged version of Heidi was the only book my sister has thrown away...but anyway it's kind of like...well...a book written by two people in different centuries. Which is pretty weird. Also they're supposed to be, like baby books. And how do you turn The Hunchback of Notre Dame into a baby book?

 

Well that's my opinion anyway.

 

Vick says kffv. I think he's baffled.

 

~~~NDT~~~

 

p.s. I had Treasue Island read to me by my dad...he had to explain some things. And I tried to read Robinson Crusoe, which baffled me so much I read the first sentence five times and still didn't understand. Maybe when I'm 12 or 13...

p.s.s. Wolfgirl67 read it.

submitted by NDT, age 10, Bookland
(August 19, 2011 - 7:18 pm)

Throwing in some TKAM love. (Actually, Atticus love. <3)

Huck Finn is excellent. Roald Dahl is good. I liked Black Beauty. Peter Pan - I like the book, but I hate the character.

I adore the Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings is the best book evar barring the Silm. 'Nuff said. 

I love Winnie-the-Pooh.

Stuart Little is pretty good, though I prefer The Trumpet of the Swan.

I like all the Madeline L'Engle books except for A Swiftly Tilting Planet - actually, I prefer her Austin books on the whole. I always found Vicky more interesting and relatable than Meg, partly because she's a writer like me, and partly because she just seems more real.

Anne of Green Gables (the whole series) is good, but Emily of New Moon is incalculably better.

And of course Narnia is my childhood.

I like Little Women and am probably the only girl in history who likes that book and doesn't ship Laurie/Jo. Professor Bhaer is so sweet! 

 

 

submitted by ZNZ, age 14, Thulcandra
(August 19, 2011 - 9:26 pm)

I love all those books. And yes, I <3 Atticus too, but I think I like Boo Radley the best, at least at the end.

 

I wuvs Peter Pan! (Character too. I suppose I, like Mrs. Darling and all the rest, have fallen for him because he still has all his first teeth.)

 

NDT, I will get a copy of Robinson Crusoe for you when you turn twelve. Until then, just anticipate reading it. Read Swiss Family. It's AWESOME and actually a lot more interesting than Robinson.

 

I just recently read Many Waters for the first time and...Yalith <3. And the nephilim who was after her, Eblis, was the forerunner to all stalkers. *shivers* He scared me.

 

NARNIA! ASLAN! EVERYTHING! GAH! BAH! DAH!

 

"He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what ther means?" (Strangely enough, I did when I was little, but I don't know anymore...sigh...:()

 

And I am COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY against Laurie/Jo. They just aren't right for each other. Bhaer and Jo is much better. Especially as my parents are 24 years apart in age, so, yeah. (To tell you the truth, I'm not a huge fan of Laurie/Amy either. I love Meg/Brooke, but Laurie/Beth would have been so much better. I miss Beth...:()

 

I am currently reading Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre (which is NOT a "romantic story". It's a very intense book.) I'm also reading the third volume of Kristin Lavransdatter. How she's going to wrap all this up I will never know.

 

I was reading Les Mis, but I couldn't finish it before we had to take it back to the library. I'm going to get it again and finish it.

 

And abridged books = BLUCH! YUCH! *gags*

 

Andy P. .C says iikw.

~Wolfgirl67 signing off.

 

submitted by Wolfgirl67, age 13 1/2, Here, of course.
(August 20, 2011 - 7:27 pm)

I've read Anne of Green gables and liked it,except the middle books.I thought it got a bit boring there.I've read rould dahl and loved all of them. i really,really,like shakeshpere and greek/roman myths,am reading huckleberry finn,and I've defintinly read more but forget.

I share your opinion of adbriged novels:ugh.

submitted by Kate S., age 9, ON, Canada
(August 21, 2011 - 7:55 am)

@Wolfgirl67: Last statement: YEEES! There like blugh and yugh and blugh and yugh and blugh and-and-Gizunthite!

Ah yes, i read an exerpt from White Fang,  so I wanted to get it, becuz it was awesome, and I got the abriged version, and I was like...that doesn't sound at all like the exerpt...I mean they didn't even have the dead royal guy whose coffin was a cardboard box that they used for a table and chair! lol....so I reilized it was abriged,  sent it back to the library, got a different version. THAT was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

y more like it. Seriously.

 

Vick says ymay. You may? I may what? read lots more classics?

 

~~~NDT~~~

submitted by NDT, age 10, Bookland
(August 21, 2011 - 5:29 pm)

Finished Lassie, started Heidi. Finally. After all this time of "should I, should I not? Yes. No wait, I think I'll read that...yes. I'll leave Heidi for another time" I FINALLY STARTED!!!

 

Vick says wpiz. Wpiz...Whips? Yes, whipped cream must be whipped with whips, or it won't be whipped. *coughchocolatefactorycough*

 

~~~NDT~~~

submitted by NDT, age 10, Booklayndation
(August 30, 2011 - 6:05 pm)