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[Warning: There is some discussion at the end of the show that is a bit more PG-13, though it's not like something you wouldn't hear on the radio or on TV.] We finally get back on track with the schedule with our look at the very established childrens' book publisher of our childhood, Scholastic. Not only did they provide many of the books we read in our youth, but they're also the publisher of the very popular Harry Potter series that many of our listeners asked us to discuss. We kept this one brief, but there's a little bit of silliness once we realized we were near the end.
Intro/Outro Music: Average Joes (Dodgeball) by Theodore Shapiro.
Forum Discussion: Episode #24: Scholastic
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you guys should've talked about the stuff at the end for the whole episode. I ran out of breath laughing
Oooh, it was a little echo-y in the hotel room, huh? Ah well!
I had the mixer boost too much so when the sound was too loud, there were some issues. I think this is the only one affected.
Yes, the name of the gorilla in Congo is Amy.
I am ashamed I know this.
Wow, now we know what happens when a topic doesn't gel. Well the topic sucked but the episode was a blast. I was getting a little worried when all the talk was about the stick up Kevin's ass and his penis being removed. I thought I heard Amy say something that combined both at one point, maybe I'll have to listen to it again.
Even the fail is made of win, you guys can do no wrong.
As to childhood reading, for me it was all about the Brothers Grimm and other older European fairy tales where good people had bad things happen to them. Then when they got the upper hand they did even nastier things to the people who had hurt them. Sometimes the good guys didn't win and sometimes the good guys weren't nice at all. There were a lot of crafty tailors who got what they wanted / became rich in devious ways - I suspect that tailors were a stereotype for Jews.
I never got on with the 'wholesome' Disneyesque (sp?) school of fairy tales after that, they seemed far too childish. Can't really blame Disney though as Hans Christian Andersen had started the whole 'fairy tales for kids' thing much earlier.
Oh yes, Encyclopaedias. Read a lot of those.
Well, that episode took a turn for the weird.
Re: Dom hating Wuthering Heights -- I'll give you that 'Amen' you're looking for. Got that sprung on me in 11th grade English class and it almost turned me off reading altogether.
Odd as it may sound, my favorite book as a child (not to mention the one that sticks with me to this day) was non-fiction. I remember reading "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr in 4th grade ... there wasn't a whole lot to it (only 80 pages), but I remember finding the story really moving.
Hopefully I can make it to Hiroshima later this year and educate myself about it first-hand.
I, like Dom, read voraciously as a kid. Like Amy, The Phantom Tollbooth was also one of my favorite books. One book I'm surprised that no one mentioned was A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
Oh by the way, Scholastic did publish Chronicles of Narnia (although they weren't the original publisher). I guess someone needs to stand up for Dom.
T_T
I hate how those guys looked at me all weird when I talked about Phantom Tollbooth. It's a dog named Tock that goes "tick tick tick"! LEAVE ME ALONE, I DIDN'T WRITE THE BOOK.
It is, nonetheless, awesome.
Just now getting around to listening to these...
I also read The Phantom Tollbooth as well as Half Magic, so I was with you the whole way there
If I had been there I would've brought up Choose Your Own Adventure style books. I started with Steve Jackson's Fighting Fantasy (specifically "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain") before I even saw the CYOA series, and settled on Joe Dever's "Lone Wolf" series. "Grail Quest" was a lot of tongue-in-cheek Arthurian fun as well.
I actually only ever read the first and last chapters of Hatchet....got a B+ on the essay though
. Favourite childhood books: Goosebumps, Animorphs, Harry Potter...uhh that's about it...man I feel deprived now, I really should read all those other series, my friends are all like "Hey do you like the Chronicles of Narnia?" and I'm all "Aslan what now?".
Chronicles of Narnia is less than good for casual reading, I own the full collection of books, and they really are not good.
I too read Animorphs as a child as well as Phantom Tollbooth, Goosebumps, and The Boxcar Children...and looking back on it now... my childhood sssooo sucked.
I just wanted to say that I loved The Three Investigators series when I was a kid! I still have some of the old paperbacks that I ordered from the Scholastic form in elementary school. ^_^ I loved their hidden clubhouse (I think it was an old van or something like that?) disguised under a pile of junk in Jupiter's family's junkyard--I thought that was so cool!
The Phantom Tollbooth was one of my favorite books too--definitely one of the best books ever!
<3!!!!