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GailS
Unregistered User
(3/13/05 10:24 am)
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Peter Pan Sequel
FYI: Children's author Geraldine McCaughrean has been chosen to write the official sequel to J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan."
www.comcast.net/entertain...80175.html
GailS
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Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(3/14/05 12:53 am)
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Re: Peter Pan Sequel
Interesting and very logical choice, actually. I wish her well!
It also bodes well for many of Geraldine McCaughrean's other books staying available for a while longer, many of which are folklore themed. No complaints there. Her book, A Pack of Lies, has always been one of my personal recommendations to kids looking for something a little different and quirky. It's rather unusual all unto itself, like Raskin's The Westing Game.
Heidi
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JennySchillig
Registered User
(3/16/05 10:48 am)
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"Peter And The Starcatchers"
Have you read the recent "prequel", Peter and the Starcatchers? It was co-authored by Dave Barry (I am not making this up!) It's a good read...rather cinematically written.
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raggedymoth
Unregistered User
(3/23/05 10:49 am)
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Starcatchers and other fantasies
I enjoyed Starcatchers, but it was obvious (to me, in my opinion) that the coauthors had seen the Disney movie but not read the Barrie book. I reread Peter Pan lately; I'm excited that Neverland as Barrie reported it will be written about again!
I've actually had a run of really great YA lately. Has anyone read Sorcery and Cecilia and it's sequal, or the Hollow Kingdom?
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evil little pixie
Registered User
(3/23/05 11:26 am)
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Re: Starcatchers and other fantasies
I've read _Sorcery and Cecelia_ and its sequel. I loved the first one but I was disappointed in the sequel- the plot seemed kind of silly and not particularly interesting. On a side note, I love all the books written just by Patricia C. Wrede, but I've never been able to get through one written by Caroline Stevermer alone. I like Wrede's _Mairelon the Magician_ and _Magician's Ward_ (set in the same world but with different characters) much better than _The Grand Tour_. And, of course, I must recommend Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles to anyone who hasn't already read them.
I read _Peter and the Starcatchers_ and I enjoyed it, but there were several obvious inconsistencies with Barrie's book. I didn't really notice anything that reminded me of the Disney movie, though. (Unless the live action one of a couple of years ago was made by Disney too; I don't remember.)
Haven't read _The Hollow Kingdom_. What's it like?
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Aer
Unregistered User
(3/23/05 11:51 am)
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PCW
Patricia C. Wrede is a wonderful author, but I too was disappointed by The Grand Tour. It seemed as if her part was much smaller, and Caroline Stevermer isn't particularly good, and suffers in comparison to Patricia C. Wrede. I have all of Patricia Wredes book, and adore them.
A Peter Pan prequel co-written by Dave Barry? As in Dave Barry Does Japan Dave Barry? I love him, but it is quite a suprise to here that.
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Helen J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(3/23/05 1:09 pm)
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Re: PCW
You know, I really seriously disagree with the assessment(s) of Stevermer: her novel A College of Magics is one of my most-beloved works of literature as both a fantasy and an academic novel, and her first novel, The Serpents Egg, is also masterful ... Just out of curiousity, what is about her writing style that you dislike? Not to be combatative ... just wondering.
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janeyolen
Registered User
(3/23/05 1:40 pm)
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Re:Stevermer
I am a big Stevermer fan, too, and published her delicious RIVER RATS when I had my own fantasy/sf line at Harcourt. She showed me the start of a magical baseball novel that had great promise but, alas, my line was shut down. I had just started to sign up Neil Gaiman's CORALINE, too!
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RaggedyMoth
Registered User
(3/23/05 1:55 pm)
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Re: Hollow Cecilia Starcatcher College
It's funny, Sorcery and Cecilia started as letters between the authors, and Clare B Dunkle would send the chapters of The Hollow Kingdom to her daughters. It seems like the way a story unfolds in correspondance keeps it especially green and interesting. I was delighted with Cecilia and suprised by Hollow Kindom. What a great genre- epistolary historical heroine fantasy.
Evil Little Pixie- Hollow Kingdom is about two sisters and goblins. It's the first book of a planned trilogy. It started slow for me but went to such an unexpected and imaginative place that I don't want to say more about the plot.
Aer- yes, that Dave Barry. In fact, on his website
www.davebarry.com/news.html
he says that in his retirement (he's no longer a regualr columnist at the Miami Herald) he is writing, and is actual working on a sequel to Starcatchers (sequel to a prequel? And what about the 'official' sequel that started this thread?) I also liked the Grand Tour less then Cecilia, but had a hard time pinpointing why. A lot of little things, I guess.
Helen- I tried to read a College of Magics. Maybe if I had read it before Sorcery and Cecilia I would've given it more time to grow on me. I'm not sure if it was pace or style...it didn't seem as alive to me...I got to the part where the main character's friend demonstrates real magic by the sea, and never picked it up again. (I have piles of books waiting to be read). What was it about the book that made you cherish it? I may try again; I don't want to miss out!
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Aer
Unregistered User
(3/23/05 3:05 pm)
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Re: Hollow Cecilia Starcatcher College
I first have to say that I read College of Magics last summer so that the details are fuzzy, but I went into it with very high expectations because of Sorcery and Cecelia. I didn't like the ending very much, the romance felt to me very tacked on, but also I knew it was coming. It is hard to say exactly what I didn't like about it. The story, and plot just felt alittle contrived to me. I did read the whole thing, and was entertained by it, but didn't really feel satisfied by it. Maybe I should try the Serpent's Egg before I write off Caroline Stevermer completely. I do think that her part of Sorcery and Cecelia was very well written, but the other two things by her I've read haven't impressed me.
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evil little pixie
Registered User
(3/23/05 7:15 pm)
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Re: Hollow Cecilia Starcatcher College
I can't put my finger on anything in particular that I disliked about Caroline Stevermer's books. I tried to read _The Serpent's Egg_ and later _When the King Comes Home_ and I got 2 or 3 chapters into each of them and realized I wasn't enjoying the experience. I didn't actively dislike them or think they were badly written the way I have some books; I just wasn't getting anything out of reading them, and I didn't care if I never finished them. I've had this experience with a few other books in the past, and I don't think there was any similar thread in them except my general feeling of "I really don't care about this; I'd rather do something else."
Raggedymoth, _Hollow Kingdom_ sounds cool; I'll check it out when I get a chance. Have you read George MacDonald's _The Princess and the Goblin_? I really enjoy it, but I hated the sequel- found the characters annoying and the plot crippled by the heavy-handed morals.
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Chris Peltier
Registered User
(3/23/05 11:55 pm)
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Re: Hollow Cecilia Starcatcher College
evil little pixie,
I know that your question was directed at Raggedymoth, and I know that this is veering off-topic, but I had to pipe up with a "hear, hear" with respect to George MacDonald! He could be guilty of moralizing - as an ex-minister, I guess he'd be prone toward that sort of bent - but who cares, when he wrote so many great stories otherwise, like The Golden Key, Phantastes, Lilith, and the rest! He had some amazingly powerful female characters, rarely done in the 19th century by male writers. If it's any consolation, his radical religious ideas caused his congregation to force him to give up preaching, which was a good thing, since he focused more on his writing!
~Chandra~
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Aer
Unregistered User
(3/24/05 3:18 am)
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George McDonald
George McDonald was an amazing author, and personally I think he was an amazing preacher too (but that is really based on one's own personal beliefs). Princess and the Goblins was one of my favorite books growing up, and Phantastes is wonderful too.
George McDonald was a big influence on both Tolkien, and CS Lewis (he also is both my Father's, and my Grandmother's favorite author). I'm glad that some people here enjoy his work too!
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(3/26/05 3:25 pm)
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_A College of Magics_
I sort of grew up on the sort of 3-volume novel this was book is modeled on, so I liked it very much as it went along -- then was a bit disgusted with the ending, which is how I often felt about its models, too. As someone said of _Richard Feveral_, it 'began to end well,' then had a conventional let-down sort of ending tacked on. I do want to read her others; at least I'll be reading them in the right order. :)
r@rosemarylake.com
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