Comments on: After the First Death by Robert Cormier http://superfastreader.com/after-the-first-death-by-robert-cormier.htm i read all the books Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Superfast Reader http://superfastreader.com/after-the-first-death-by-robert-cormier.htm/comment-page-1#comment-618 Superfast Reader Mon, 07 May 2007 12:35:38 +0000 http://superfastreader.com/after-the-first-death-by-robert-cormier.htm#comment-618 That's a great list--I've got L'Engle and Lewis as well. I am making a note to stockpile John Bellairs. My brother & I were obsessed with his books. I've also got Edward Eager's <i>Half Magic</i> and the rest in the series, <i>When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit</i>, <i>The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson</i>, and <i>Julie of the Wolves</i>, in case I have a girl who is as much of a reader as I am. That’s a great list–I’ve got L’Engle and Lewis as well. I am making a note to stockpile John Bellairs. My brother & I were obsessed with his books.

I’ve also got Edward Eager’s Half Magic and the rest in the series, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, and Julie of the Wolves, in case I have a girl who is as much of a reader as I am.

]]> By: Daniel Chapman http://superfastreader.com/after-the-first-death-by-robert-cormier.htm/comment-page-1#comment-616 Daniel Chapman Thu, 03 May 2007 19:19:14 +0000 http://superfastreader.com/after-the-first-death-by-robert-cormier.htm#comment-616 She's gotten some JRR Tolkien books from me along with the disclaimer that she probably won't finish them, that they were very dry and difficult to finish. She got some CS Lewis Narnia books, along with the secret "these are a Christian allegory!" (Because it was such an amazing surprise to me when my pastor let me in on the secret.) I have Madeleine L'Engle on the bookshelf, waiting for her, along with a few others. I've been looking for some Bellairs books, have a few Roald Dahl saved for her, and plenty of Shel Silverstein. She's already taken from the shelf my "cheesy dumb vampire novels" that I used to read constantly in college, along with all the other horror novels I used to love. (Clive Barker, Steven King, etc). Those all happened a bit earlier than I had expected. She also got some of the children's books that we saved for her, both from her mother, myself, her grand parents, and also family friends. She's had boxes of books available to her since before she was born. She's passed a few books back this direction, as well. She and her mother got me to read the Harry Potter series (though, I haven't finished the latest two books), and we all were introduced to the Spiderwick Chronicles and the Series of Unfortunate Events together. She’s gotten some JRR Tolkien books from me along with the disclaimer that she probably won’t finish them, that they were very dry and difficult to finish.

She got some CS Lewis Narnia books, along with the secret “these are a Christian allegory!” (Because it was such an amazing surprise to me when my pastor let me in on the secret.)

I have Madeleine L’Engle on the bookshelf, waiting for her, along with a few others. I’ve been looking for some Bellairs books, have a few Roald Dahl saved for her, and plenty of Shel Silverstein.

She’s already taken from the shelf my “cheesy dumb vampire novels” that I used to read constantly in college, along with all the other horror novels I used to love. (Clive Barker, Steven King, etc). Those all happened a bit earlier than I had expected.

She also got some of the children’s books that we saved for her, both from her mother, myself, her grand parents, and also family friends. She’s had boxes of books available to her since before she was born.

She’s passed a few books back this direction, as well. She and her mother got me to read the Harry Potter series (though, I haven’t finished the latest two books), and we all were introduced to the Spiderwick Chronicles and the Series of Unfortunate Events together.

]]> By: Superfast Reader http://superfastreader.com/after-the-first-death-by-robert-cormier.htm/comment-page-1#comment-615 Superfast Reader Thu, 03 May 2007 19:08:55 +0000 http://superfastreader.com/after-the-first-death-by-robert-cormier.htm#comment-615 I'm pretty sure I read Fade, but I don't remember it. What other books have you been giving your daughter? I definitely have books I'm saving for my future child, who I hope is a bookworm like me. I’m pretty sure I read Fade, but I don’t remember it.

What other books have you been giving your daughter? I definitely have books I’m saving for my future child, who I hope is a bookworm like me.

]]> By: Daniel Chapman http://superfastreader.com/after-the-first-death-by-robert-cormier.htm/comment-page-1#comment-614 Daniel Chapman Thu, 03 May 2007 16:02:18 +0000 http://superfastreader.com/after-the-first-death-by-robert-cormier.htm#comment-614 I just recently started picking Cormier books back up myself. I've never read this book, but I remember his books the way you described it. They seemed to show dark secrets of adulthood. I read Fade and couldn't help but think "Man, this guy is COLD to his characters." With all the warnings that people had given me of Fade, I did expect it to be even more horrific, but it was tolerable. There wasn't anything in any of the books that can't be topped by any prime time cop show. My daughter is 13, so I have been re-reading a bunch of the books that I read at that age and then passing them down to her. I hesitated at Fade, but she's old enough and mature enough... And I'm still dealing with the fact that her interests are influenced by that whole "different gender" thing. I knew she'd like Fade, though, since she seems to be drawn to these sorts of stories. (Her mother and her are the ones who watch the aforementioned cop shows. Law and Order: SVU and the like.) I just recently started picking Cormier books back up myself. I’ve never read this book, but I remember his books the way you described it. They seemed to show dark secrets of adulthood.

I read Fade and couldn’t help but think “Man, this guy is COLD to his characters.” With all the warnings that people had given me of Fade, I did expect it to be even more horrific, but it was tolerable. There wasn’t anything in any of the books that can’t be topped by any prime time cop show.

My daughter is 13, so I have been re-reading a bunch of the books that I read at that age and then passing them down to her. I hesitated at Fade, but she’s old enough and mature enough… And I’m still dealing with the fact that her interests are influenced by that whole “different gender” thing.

I knew she’d like Fade, though, since she seems to be drawn to these sorts of stories. (Her mother and her are the ones who watch the aforementioned cop shows. Law and Order: SVU and the like.)

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