autumn
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Post by autumn on Aug 19, 2020 0:46:50 GMT
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Post by enigma72 on Aug 19, 2020 1:20:06 GMT
I cry every time I read it autumn! It is sad. |
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 19, 2020 1:39:08 GMT
I prefer The Taking Tree, by Shrill Travesty.
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Post by Morgana on Aug 19, 2020 9:34:28 GMT
Wonderful, though sad story. Unbelievable fact: the book was banned in Colorado. The stupidity of some Americans never ceases to amaze me.
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Sophiefoxx
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Post by Sophiefoxx on Aug 19, 2020 11:36:11 GMT
i have not read The Giving Tree (yet) but all those people that have read it and telling me about it kind of all agree, it's one of the saddest books they know. i guess i'll have to read soon then. (in my country it's not known as children book or anything, so i have missed that as a child). however, the saddest book i've read is a tie actually: 1) unironically, Infinite Jest (DFW) and 2) The Star Rover (Jack London)  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 18:20:28 GMT
Wonderful, though sad story. Unbelievable fact: the book was banned in Colorado. The stupidity of some Americans never ceases to amaze me. The argument was that it was sexist which I can understand why it can be interpreted that way. I think this book is okay as long as it is read with adult guidance to help with a more positive interpretation for children instead of the negative interpretation that mothers are supposed to be selfless until there is nothing left of them or that it teaches children to take advantage of their parents. When I was very little I actually remember reading this book in class and the teacher asked us if we thought it was okay for the child to keep taking things from the tree and we all said that it wasn’t. She helped us understand where the kid was wrong. But actually as an adult it seems both were in the wrong, where one was only giving to the person and the other one was only taking from them. I can see how this book can be too complex for children and possibly present the wrong message about relationships or parenting, but I wouldn’t be completely against reading it to my kids. Kids don’t really grasp messages so in depth like that. |
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Post by Super-predator on Aug 20, 2020 0:44:46 GMT
The saddest book I ever read was American Holocaust. Those,... poor Indians.
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Post by JHA Durant on Aug 21, 2020 4:47:17 GMT
Isn't that the one where the kid just keeps taking from the tree as he gradually gets older until ultimately there's nothing left of it?
Yeah, it's not sad, it's depressingly sad.
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Post by The Lovers on Aug 24, 2020 18:44:31 GMT
We love to read, right now we're reading Where the Crawdads Sing.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 24, 2020 22:48:20 GMT
Husband and wife 1940s and '50s cowboy stars of movies and TV, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans adopted several children but only had one of their own who was born with Down Syndrome and died before her 2nd birthday. Evans' short book about their daughter's death, "Angel Unaware" (1953) was a surprise best seller and will make even strong men break down and sob.  |
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Post by truecristian on Aug 24, 2020 23:09:09 GMT
: I don't mind living in your shadow,, you're a freak of nature.
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Post by truecristian on Aug 24, 2020 23:09:49 GMT
: I don't mind living in your shadow,, you're a freak of nature. Mikef6
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 25, 2020 0:16:26 GMT
It was one book I never read to my daughter. My wife (the first one, She Who Must Not Be Named) wouldn't have it. My daughter read it when she was a teenager and was irate.
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