i don't blame him, i think i would have,t oo!
A sample of the sparkling dialogue between our hero and his arch-enemy the wealthy aristocrat Danglars:
"Unfortunately," said Monte Cristo, "the title of millionaire does not always last one's lifetime as does that of Baron: as a proof you have only to consider the case of the millionaires Francke and Poulmann of Frankfort, who have just become bankrupt."
"Good heavens! They have drawn on me for two hundred thousand franks!" exclaimed Danglars.
"Ah, well," said the Count, "that's another two hundred thousand franks gone to join . . ."
Talk about your swashbuckling page-turners! The Child would undoubtedly be spellbound--if he were a budding CPA.
The child is so very lucky to have you both. So very very lucky.
Have you considered reading him Thurber stories, btw? we read some of those when I was a kid and it's always been favorite family reading. well, that and malory. (i jest about malory, but only barely.)
sb
Why not read to the child some of Robert Service's poetry about the Yukon? I can't think of anything better to stir up a lad's imagination.
I lured my non-reading partner back to the printed page by reading aloud Dashiel Hammett and P. G. Wodehouse. Neil Stephenson's massive triology about the long 18th c. was a joint effort. Maybe I should put Count of Monte Cristo on the list ...
The basic human interests of violence, sex, and money, are generally acquired in that order; every now and then a love of learning disrupts the natural path.
Carl
Oh please, please read him Robert Service's 'Cremation of Sam McGee'. I know it sounds grim but it is so whimsical and wonderful. My own father read it to us fireside from the time I was seven. It is with me still thirty years later.
My girls, at 17, 14 and 12 are only just now outgrowing being read to at bedtime.
Some of the lighter Poe goes over big around here.
Where are you Anne? Hopefully on a well deserved vacation - but it's been 3 weeks and you are missed!
Oh, thank you, thank you!!!! I had forgotten Larry's owlish friend reading The Suddenly Book. Now you've given me a perfect excuse to go find My Family and Other Animals and Birds Beasts and Relatives and reread them this week. (And perhaps see which of the children I can foist them upon, but only after I've reread them first.)
Our current summer read aloud books are from the Swallows and Amazons series, written in the thirties and forties by Arthur Ransome.
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