Hello Kitty

[Cian O'Connor]

Or her direct contemporary, Phillip Pullman. He's just
won the Whitbread literary prize in Britain - the
first children's author ever to do so. Imagine William
Blake writing children's literature, with all the
religious implications...

The Harry Potter books are terrible.

--- Charles Jannuzi <jannuzi at edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp
> wrote: 
> As a digression on another cultural topic: for any
> tempted to go out and buy
> a Harry Potter book because they are looking for a
> light, entertaining read:
> DON'T.
> 
> Go get Ursula K. Leguin's 'Earthsea Quartet' or any
> adolescent fiction by
> Alan Garner (one of the greatest post-war writers
> the UK has!), such as the
> 'Owl Service' or 'Red Shift'. O.K., so the local
> Borders will let you down,
> so try www.amazon.co.uk or something.

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