I'm Kind of Bad at Subject Lines

[kadollan]

I've made a lot of new friends in the past day or three over at the lovely and incomparable be_compromisedAnd then I suddenly realized that there are like two posts on here from this year, and one of them is super-maudlin and about my dead mum OH HI THAT MAKES A GREAT FIRST IMPRESSION

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[kadollan]

I just got the yen to re-read some of the Pern novels a few weeks ago (that my or may not have been cybermathwitch's fault...) Those books were kind of formative.

And there was Christopher Stasheff's Warlock series, oh, and Xanth before they got awful. Oh Heinlein! My first "grown up" science fiction story was Number of the Beast the summer between my fourth and fifth grades. Now that I have kids of my own (in 6th, 7th and college) I have to ask "the fuck were my parents thinking?"

Okay, actually, they were probably thinking, "she'll come ask if she has questions, she's a smart kid." And yeah, but even so. Talk about your formative influences.

And Buffy. So -- I should confess now that I haven't seen the whole series. I loved, loved, puffy heart sticker LOVED the first three seasons. The whole show is based on this metaphor that high school is hell (and let me tell you how I identified with that as a basic premise). So once they graduate the reason for the story kind of faded for me. (Your mileage may, of course, vary). And who knows, I might have missed something really awesome. I hung in there through season five.

I haven't seen all of Angel yet either, but it's on my "to do" list. :)

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[cybermathwitch]

Just jumping in to say that despite appearances:

I just got the yen to re-read some of the Pern novels a few weeks ago (that my or may not have been cybermathwitch's fault...) Those books were kind of formative.

I'm not actually a scapegoat, I just play one on Kade's TV. Snicker. ;)

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[kadollan]

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[blamebrampton]

I think there is something in the ether, because on the other side of the planet and without any connection, I had the same urge at the same time and have been having a little DragonFest over here in Sydney. Weird! (or Weyrd, in fact)

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[kadollan]

Hunh! I have a friend across the state who also just started a re-read, although arguably she was also inspired by cybermathwitch.

It's amazing how well those books stand up over time. My response to reading them this last time was probably pretty evenly split between fond nostalgia and "damn, these are really good."

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[inkvoices]

Haha, yes, they made me want to reread Pern as well! Mine are at home though, meh.

My parent's lost track of what I read. In the library that we used to go to you could only take out books from the adult section if you had an adult library card, which you didn't get until something like 15, so I think my mum relied a lot on that. But there were plenty of books in the YA section that probably could/should have been in the adult section instead, heh. I don't think you can limit kids anyway - if they want to read/watch/find out about something, they'll find a way. Being open to questions from them is your best bet.

I liked Angel. It has the famed line 'If nothing that we do matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do' and I believe it has theme of redemption and things not always being what they seem, intended to be darker than Buffy's themes of growing up.

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[kadollan]

Oh yeah, my parents had no idea of more than half of what I was reading (although they trusted my good judgment...and that trust was mostly borne out.) But they knew I was reading Number of the Beast. ::boggles::

(Actually, it probably played a large part in making me who I am now, and I am sure not complaining. Mostly I just think it's funny.)

And come to think of it, I've never censored what my kids read either, so there you are.