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| Marj |
 Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:57 am |
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Judith,
I am such a fan of Arthur Rackham. I'll try to find some of his work and post it if I do. But I love so many illustrators of children's books.
I will try to find a discussion we had before you joined us about reading age appropriate books. We had quite a talk way back when, on how we judged what was age appropriate or not, Turns out our reasoning led many of us to books that were anything but!
I won't be around tomorrow but I'll do some digging the day after. |
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| judithannie |
| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:19 am |
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Thanks Marj
I did a search on Amazon a while back to see if they had the same edition of Just So Stories to give to my friend's grandson but apparently it is no longer in print and my copy is in storage so I don't know the name of the illustrator. My daughter has the copy of the Arthur Rackham book. I know I will enjoy seeing the illustrations you post.
So now I am off to Alibris and eBay to see if they have Just So Stories. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:19 am |
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I was never told what to read or what not to read. I could pick up any book in the house and read it. I would pick up the Shulman books and the Harold Robbins books and scan them for the dirty parts. My friends did the same. We used to phone each other and read the dirty parts to one another, trying to outdo each other by finding the best ones. Of course we grew up into child molesters and rapists, but we had a good grounding in the pulp fiction and best sellers of the 40's and 50's.
"He sat beside her on the bed and kissed her on the lips. Holding her loosely, his hand move between her breasts and undid the top button of her seersucker blouse. Slowly he undid the second button of her blouse......"
That may not be exact, and I don't remember where it's from (maybe They Fished All Night), but it stayed with me all these years. Was that appropriate for a 12 year old boy? You bet! |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:36 pm |
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Here are two examples of the art of Arthur Rackham. Both are from "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens."
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| Marj |
| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:37 pm |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:58 pm |
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| Ah, so that's Rackham. I'm sure it was he who illustrated my Bros Grimm, and Rip Van Winkle. Remarkable. Thank you. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:54 pm |
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| dlhavard |
| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:54 am |
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I used to read everything - voraciously - when I was a kid. My mom would take one book away, order me to clean, and then come back only to find me reading something else. (Which is why, to this day, I always have 3-4 books around waiting to be finished.) My favorite reads as a kid were all the Louisa May Alcott books and Swiss Family Robinson. (But I also read my dad's "naughty" books. Usually about a beautiful woman sold into slavery and forced to obey the "ahem" demands of her enslaver.)
He also had a great many men's magazines. I remember needing to write a book report on James Bowie and not finding anything at our local library. Dad found an old article about him in his men's magazine and I used it for a book report. NEEDLESSTOSAY, I had the BEST and most interesting report. The principal also called my parents. But as my dad pointed out IT WAS FACTUAL and the only thing we could find on Jim Bowie. And the kids at my school were enthralled to hear that he had 13 children and got into quite a few knife fights.  |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:34 am |
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DL,
Quote: I used to read everything - voraciously - when I was a kid. My mom would take one book away, order me to clean...
In other words you were a dirty book reader in more than one sense. |
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| dlhavard |
| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:29 am |
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Er.........ahem...............wellll 
Did learn a lot! |
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| bdswagger |
| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:51 pm |
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Marc wrote: Quote: Cool! Your a Ry Cooder fan? Is this the same Ry Cooder who used to be connected to The Blasters?
Dave and Phil Alvin were in THE BLASTERS, not Ry Cooder.
Yeah, that's right. I think I got them temporarily mixed up because both had music on the 'Streets of Fire' soundtrack.
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| bdswagger |
| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:00 pm |
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Syd wrote: I'm currently halfway through Lois McMaster Bujold's Hallowed Hunt, which is set in the same world as The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls, but to this point seems to be independent of those. This one begins with our hero picking up a minor noblewoman for trial. It seems that a mad prince obtained her for some rite which required a virgin and a leopard, and when the going got too much for her. she dented his skull with a convenient war hammer which was part of a suit of armor the prince liked to keep in the room with him. (He had previously killed a retainer, gutted and skinned him, which alarmed people, so he was exiled and most of his friends wouldn't drop by for dinner. It also means that, although a trial is necessary, nobody misses the prince all that much.) Our hero has previously become inhabited by a wolf's soul in addition to his own, and the bloody-handed noblewoman has obtained the leopard's spirit through the rite. Normally, the lady would be let off for self-defense, but this is a prince, and a potential hwir to the throne. The hero and lady are both comely and unwed, so temptation is there as well.
I'm enjoying it, although Bujold's strong suit is science fiction, not fantasy. So far, I like it the best of the three novels set in this world, and it's good to see her stretching herself into fantasy. But I'm also hoping for a new Miles Vorkosigan novel, or a new, independent science fiction novel..
Oh, no kidding! I love her Vorkosigan books! I've read the last 2, but sadly havn't been able to buy them yet. Miles is probably my favorite hero. He's such an humble little megalomaniac! LOL!
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| Marj |
| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:44 pm |
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| Wade - After watching last night's interview, I must get Michael Cunningham's latest. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:12 am |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:10 pm |
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Marj wrote: Wade - After watching last night's interview, I must get Michael Cunningham's latest.
I have it, I took it to the beach and well, it's not really a beach book. So, haven't had the time (deadline hell) to devote to it. The premise alone seems pretty damn fascinating, though.
A friend told me I have to read The Alchemist, so I picked that up from the library today. I'm taking them both with me to the Adirondacks for a week, but hopefully I won't have too much time to read. |
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