XPost: rec.arts.books, rec.arts.books.childrens, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:43:28 UTC, andrew  wrote:   
      
   > On 2007-12-05, Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   > > British librarians have compiled a list of 30 books to read before you die.   
   > >   
   > > It has some strange inclusions, and some strange omissions.   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   > > What about "Alice's adventured in Wonderland", which they omitted?   
   >   
   > I have always had a small issue with this author, not with his   
   > literature, as he appears to have had a few issues with small   
   > children. Certainly he was a /very/ unusual man who produced amazing   
   > literature though but I find it hard to ignore his character.   
      
   Any indication that he ever did anything that he oughtn't to have done?   
   This much is certain: he did not generate lawsuits, or some Victorian   
   equivalent, from people claiming abuse, but he did generate some long-term   
   friendships and some that were not, kind of like real people. (Actually,   
   the Victorian equivalent of a lawsuit was a lawsuit; cf. Oscar Wilde.)   
      
   Not that you don't have a right to like or dislike people and their works   
   for whatever reason you please; but in this case we're talking of what   
   people in general might read, which might not have much to do with   
   personal preferences as to what a person is thought to have thought about.   
      
      
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