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meme me a meme

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Jax Blunt
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Questions by Tim, answers by Jax. If you want to join in, feel free – leave us a comment to that effect.

The first book you remember reading:

I don’t. Remember a first book that is. I remember not reading. And I remember reading. A book I remember from childhood is Mr. Galliano’s Circus, that was probably pretty early on.

Best loved children’s book: Erg. I have no idea. I love children’s books, I reread them endlessly. Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage (Puffin Books) probably comes pretty high up the list.

Book for a desert island (if you only had one book, which would it be): Something long….does The Lord of the Rings count as one book?

Favourite genre and why: SF&F. You can explore ideas within it that come back to the real world. Thought provoking, enquiring, uplifting (occasionally depressing) – covers pretty much everything.

Life changing book: Childrens Story Try it and see what you think.

All time favourite book: You’re kidding, right? I don’t think I could point to a single favourite book – although those below might come close.

Most read (how many times): Possibly Ender’s Game (The Ender Saga) (no idea how many times). Or maybe Magician (Riftwar Saga) (ditto on the times).

The last book (the one you want to have fall from your lifeless hand): Haven’t read it yet 🙂

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7 responses to “meme me a meme”

  1. Carlotta avatar
    Carlotta

    Well that is really peculiar…I was looking in Amazon this morning and saw Childrens Story and wondered what it was about. Is there any chance you could give us more of a clue? Could it have something to do with School Phobia?

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  2. Jax avatar
    Jax

    it’s not to do with school phobia. If I knew where my copy was I’d copy out the foreword – he wrote it very quickly one day after his offspring came home from school and recited ‘the plej’ at him and demanded a nickel (or some such). He saw that the child didn’t know what they had learnt or why, and it’s a story of how easy it is to implant ideas in children’s heads, even hostile children’s heads. Don’t know whether I’ve made it more interesting there or not!

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  3. Tim avatar
    Tim

    http://mywebpages.comcast.net/llefler/clavell.htm

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  4. Merry avatar
    Merry

    *shiver*

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  5. Alison avatar
    Alison

    I’d say I’d join in, but my answers are likely to be lots of don’t knows, lol!

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  6. Sarah avatar
    Sarah

    Alison, that’s exactly what I thought!

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  7. Jax avatar
    Jax

    There are quite a lot of don’t knows in my answers too 😉

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