10-01-2008, 07:06 PM
[user=1094]banzaitoyota[/user] wrote:
The Harry Potter and Golden Compass series are some nice big thick books, and well written, but . . . try him on some non-fiction. The Arms of Krupp is a fascinating account of a German arms manufacturing dynasty from about 1100 CE to post-WWII. Weighs in at a hefty 1400+ pages in most editions.
Yes, they're the coffeemaker people now. Same company.
Reading's one of those things that gives people a leg up on the competition their whole life. Vocabulary, grammar, big ideas, cultural, historical, and scientific information even in fiction. I learned how to make dynamite from a Heinlein novel!
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Quote:Vitamin G Wrote:Toss him some fun ones like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "Starship Troopers", and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and it'll keep him busy for a month or two. Â
That would keep him occupied for a short time. He just read BRISINGER (763 pages) in just over a day, that included him going to school.
He started a Harry Potter book yesterday and is on page 425.
He has read out the library at his old school and is rapidly working his way thru this library.
The Harry Potter and Golden Compass series are some nice big thick books, and well written, but . . . try him on some non-fiction. The Arms of Krupp is a fascinating account of a German arms manufacturing dynasty from about 1100 CE to post-WWII. Weighs in at a hefty 1400+ pages in most editions.
Yes, they're the coffeemaker people now. Same company.
Reading's one of those things that gives people a leg up on the competition their whole life. Vocabulary, grammar, big ideas, cultural, historical, and scientific information even in fiction. I learned how to make dynamite from a Heinlein novel!
NANPâ¢
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