FOAK: Books for (bright) 7-yr-old
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From: ogden on 21 Jun 2010 19:19 Champ wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:12:34 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: > > >Do yourself a favour though, get some Kurt Vonnegut in that book club > >sharpish. Genius. > > uh huh. I read Slaughterhouse 5 years ago. In fact, so long ago that > I can't actually remember if I liked it! It's not his only book. Breakfast of Champions, as mentioned by darsers, is pretty darn good. Galapagos and Cat's Cradle are also good but much more straightforward. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250
From: DozynSleepy on 22 Jun 2010 06:41 On 21/06/2010 17:46, darsy wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:12:34 +0100, ogden<ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: > >> Do yourself a favour though, get some Kurt Vonnegut in that book club >> sharpish. Genius. > > Breakfast of Champions! Never read the book but the movie starring Bruce Willis is strangely compelling viewing. I've had to watch it a few times to let it sink in. -- DozynSleepy
From: Jim on 22 Jun 2010 12:03 On 21/06/2010 19:03, Lozzo wrote: >> > Nevil Shute >> >> "On the Beach" is a great novel. > > I've never read any of his, and I really ought to. There's a semi-local > connection in that he worked on the scrapped R100[1] airship under > Barnes Wallis, and I was in Barnes Wallis house at middle school > > [1] The fated R101 was built just up the road from where I am now, in > the village I was born in. His autobiography "Slide Rule" goes into quite some detail about the R100/R101. By all accounts it turned him quite anti-big-government - you can see echos of that philosophy in a lot of his books.
From: Jim on 22 Jun 2010 12:03 On 20/06/2010 19:43, Derek Turner wrote: > A friend of mine is in the process of adopting two children, one of whom > is seven and at the top of his class in reading. He loves to read but has > come from foster-parents with no books at all. Said friend has given him > Asterix the Gaul from his own childhood (which he loves) but he's getting > through them very quickly. What says the FOAK? is he too young yet for > Harry Potter? Narnia? What suggestions do those with 7-9 yr-old boys have? Ender's Game.
From: darsy on 22 Jun 2010 12:27
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:03:58 +0100, Jim <nul(a)0.0.0.0> wrote: >On 20/06/2010 19:43, Derek Turner wrote: >> A friend of mine is in the process of adopting two children, one of whom >> is seven and at the top of his class in reading. He loves to read but has >> come from foster-parents with no books at all. Said friend has given him >> Asterix the Gaul from his own childhood (which he loves) but he's getting >> through them very quickly. What says the FOAK? is he too young yet for >> Harry Potter? Narnia? What suggestions do those with 7-9 yr-old boys have? > >Ender's Game. do 7-year-olds know up from down? -- d. |