mmexis
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Post by mmexis on Jul 4, 2019 20:32:45 GMT
While we may not consider Harry Potter and the Twilight (especially those!) books particularly good, they were particularly good at one thing: getting kids reading. And reading LARGE books. They also really relaunched "series books". And now, almost every author writes series. It's hard to find "standalone" books. Also, modern children's and young adult books tend to delve into quite deep and disturbing areas.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Jul 5, 2019 12:11:38 GMT
Years ago when Harry Potter was becoming big my friends wife asked me if they were any good.
I lent her the first two books.
She returned them to me and said with disdain 'Why did you think I'd like these? These are for kids, I can't read kids books'.
Fast forward a decade and the same person is saying to me 'You should give the Twilight books a chance, they're actually pretty good!'
LOL
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Post by novastar6 on Jul 10, 2019 14:06:58 GMT
Years ago when Harry Potter was becoming big my friends wife asked me if they were any good. I lent her the first two books. She returned them to me and said with disdain 'Why did you think I'd like these? These are for kids, I can't read kids books'. Fast forward a decade and the same person is saying to me 'You should give the Twilight books a chance, they're actually pretty good!' LOL Ohhhhh-kaaaaayyyy.
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Post by jackspicer on Aug 19, 2019 4:16:19 GMT
I'm reading one right now (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz). I'm half way through.
The 1939 movie is better.
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