Comments on: Everybody’s Doing It… http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/ Reading...Writing...Life Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:56:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: nessili http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-663 nessili Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:01:32 +0000 http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-663 Thanks for the comments! Bernita: I have Lloyd Alexander on my bookshelf too. He just didn't make the top 10 :) Bonnie: But the books are 10,000 times better than the series :P Carla: Oh, definitely Kehaar. But I tried to read the Plague Dogs, also by Adams, and could not force myself through it. Gary: Thinking of 101 Dalmations, and Pooh, and Rat and Mole made me realize how much Disney has taken over the old classics, so much so thatl you can't think of one without the other. I'll bet you $100 that 95% of the kids here in the States don't even know that Pooh and Perdita and Pongo are not Disney originals. Sigh. (Or Bambi for that matter. Which I did read as a kid, but I don't remember much about.) You know, I didn't realize how many of these stories have been made into movies/TV. I don't think #4, 7, or 9 have (correct me if I'm wrong). Even The Dark is Rising is now in preproduction, by the same people who did Narnia (which makes me feel a bit better, since they did ok by Lewis). Thanks for the comments!

Bernita: I have Lloyd Alexander on my bookshelf too. He just didn’t make the top 10 :)

Bonnie: But the books are 10,000 times better than the series :P

Carla: Oh, definitely Kehaar. But I tried to read the Plague Dogs, also by Adams, and could not force myself through it.

Gary: Thinking of 101 Dalmations, and Pooh, and Rat and Mole made me realize how much Disney has taken over the old classics, so much so thatl you can’t think of one without the other. I’ll bet you $100 that 95% of the kids here in the States don’t even know that Pooh and Perdita and Pongo are not Disney originals. Sigh. (Or Bambi for that matter. Which I did read as a kid, but I don’t remember much about.)

You know, I didn’t realize how many of these stories have been made into movies/TV. I don’t think #4, 7, or 9 have (correct me if I’m wrong). Even The Dark is Rising is now in preproduction, by the same people who did Narnia (which makes me feel a bit better, since they did ok by Lewis).

]]> By: Gary James http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-659 Gary James Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:58:12 +0000 http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-659 For me it's One Hundred and One Dalmations, by Dodie Smith. For me it’s One Hundred and One Dalmations, by Dodie Smith.

]]> By: Carla http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-650 Carla Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:18:50 +0000 http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-650 2, 3, 5 - I liked Hazel as well as Bigwig, and loved Kehaar as a cameo role - plus The Wind in the WIllows, The House at Pooh Corner and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (if that counts?) 2, 3, 5 - I liked Hazel as well as Bigwig, and loved Kehaar as a cameo role - plus The Wind in the WIllows, The House at Pooh Corner and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (if that counts?)

]]> By: Bonnie Calhoun http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-648 Bonnie Calhoun Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:05:15 +0000 http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-648 Little House on the Praire were my favorite books...I even loved the TV series too! Little House on the Praire were my favorite books…I even loved the TV series too!

]]> By: Bernita http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-645 Bernita Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:16:02 +0000 http://www.hittingthebooks.com/2006/08/26/everybodys-doing-it/#comment-645 Lloyd Alexander's Taran Wanderer series, for one set. Lloyd Alexander’s Taran Wanderer series, for one set.

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