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Re: Touch Children (or, recommend books to kids)
My first three capture every bit of identity, self-concept, courage, communication, archetypes, hero's journey, rites of passage and the search for wisdom. They are all incredible stories of adventure and completely captivating true-life stories that leave fiction in the dust.
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod - Gary Paulsen Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas - Todd Balf Random recommendations to enlighten kids by giving them easy to read (except for HOD) yet heavily introspective stuff: Virginibus Puerisque, specifically Chapter 6 "El Dorado" - Robert Louis Stevenson Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll Heart Of Darkness - Josef Conrad One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson For balance, they should also read Economics Lite: Economics In One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt The Candlemaker's Petition - Frederic Bastiat Relevant and easy-to-read applicable economics: Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel Economics Basics: Wealth Of Nations - Adam Smith The Theory Of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith The passion and intelligence in the revolution that US history teachers never expose kids to: Common Sense - Thomas Paine Rights Of Man - Thomas Paine Jefferson Bible - Thomas Jefferson The wisdom and honor of the far east: Book Of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi Hagakure - Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson [/ QUOTE ] o/u on parent complaints if a teacher were actually to teach this? |
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My first three capture every bit of identity, self-concept, courage, communication, archetypes, hero's journey, rites of passage and the search for wisdom. They are all incredible stories of adventure and completely captivating true-life stories that leave fiction in the dust. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod - Gary Paulsen Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas - Todd Balf Random recommendations to enlighten kids by giving them easy to read (except for HOD) yet heavily introspective stuff: Virginibus Puerisque, specifically Chapter 6 "El Dorado" - Robert Louis Stevenson Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll Heart Of Darkness - Josef Conrad One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson For balance, they should also read Economics Lite: Economics In One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt The Candlemaker's Petition - Frederic Bastiat Relevant and easy-to-read applicable economics: Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel Economics Basics: Wealth Of Nations - Adam Smith The Theory Of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith The passion and intelligence in the revolution that US history teachers never expose kids to: Common Sense - Thomas Paine Rights Of Man - Thomas Paine Jefferson Bible - Thomas Jefferson The wisdom and honor of the far east: Book Of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi Hagakure - Yamamoto Tsunetomo [/ QUOTE ] Yess, that's what I'm talking about - great post. Love the 3 adventure, non-fiction suggestions particularly. |
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Great Gatsby Separate Peace 1984 Brave New World Lord of the Flies Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Farenheit 451 Of Mice and Men The Scarlet Letter [/ QUOTE ] It's good to know that you enjoyed these selections, but what I'm looking for is outside the canon - supplementary reading materials that enlightened or inspired you. In other words, what would be your recommendation for the kid who doesn't yet enjoy reading, who says that all the books in the library suck? |
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[ QUOTE ] My first three capture every bit of identity, self-concept, courage, communication, archetypes, hero's journey, rites of passage and the search for wisdom. They are all incredible stories of adventure and completely captivating true-life stories that leave fiction in the dust. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod - Gary Paulsen Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas - Todd Balf [/ QUOTE ] Yess, that's what I'm talking about - great post. Love the 3 adventure, non-fiction suggestions particularly. [/ QUOTE ] I think both Five Rings and Hagakure will appeal to a subset of boys as well. Others, in the non-fiction adventure category: *****Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival - Joe Simpson Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival - Dean King Alive - Piers Paul Read |
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is no one even going to make a joke about the title of the thread? i feel like i've been meta levelled.
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i feel like i've been meta levelled. [/ QUOTE ] inconceivable, imo OP, I think the standout from that Lounge thread I linked is The Things They Carried. Everyone likes it, especially the kind of boys who might otherwise have a distaste for literature, and it's got a ton of easy-to-spot writing techniques that you can mention and teach and discuss. |
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i'll try to stick to ones that haven't been mentioned yet ...
the baron in the trees (for non-readers); if on a winter's night a traveler (for readers) - calvino the crying of lot 49 - pynchon the people of paper - salvador plascencia jitterbug perfume - tom robbins ishmael - daniel quinn the giver - lowry (?) |
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[ QUOTE ] Great Gatsby Separate Peace 1984 Brave New World Lord of the Flies Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Farenheit 451 Of Mice and Men The Scarlet Letter [/ QUOTE ] It's good to know that you enjoyed these selections, but what I'm looking for is outside the canon - supplementary reading materials that enlightened or inspired you. In other words, what would be your recommendation for the kid who doesn't yet enjoy reading, who says that all the books in the library suck? [/ QUOTE ] Honestly, I'm not sure. All I've really read outside of this is Harry Potter, Bringing Down the House, Busting Vegas, and some nonfiction stuff. I'd say Harry Potter in all honesty, but there have been all kinds of problems with that in the school systems and I think you'd have a hard time getting by with telling the kids to read Busting Vegas or One of a Kind. |
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is no one even going to make a joke about the title of the thread? i feel like i've been meta levelled. [/ QUOTE ] My thoughts exactly. |
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