XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: adda1234@bigpond.com   
      
   "Derek Broughton"  wrote in message   
   news:3041593.PtQjeHsWea@cedar.serverforest.com...   
   > Arindam Banerjee wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It has some strange inclusions, and some strange omissions.   
   >>>   
   >>> One of the inclusions is "Lord of the Rings".   
   >>   
   >> It was our Rapid Reader course book in English, in Std 8, St, Xavier's   
   >> School, Doranda, Ranchi, India in 1969.  A strange, wrong, book - well   
   >> written in parts.   
   >   
   > Wow.  You really should check your crossposts before you write things like   
   > that.   
      
   Oh dear, I usually neglect the crossposts, as I take life as it comes.  In   
   this case I take it as an obvious issue that the original poster thought it   
   meet that all the ngs would be interested in this topic, and wanted   
   follow-ups on the topic to be posted to all the ngs.  Where am I mistaken in   
   taking this approach?   
      
   >You're not likely to find much support for that opinion in   
   > rec.arts.books.tolkien or alt.books.inklings, and probably not even in   
   > alt.books.cs-lewis.   
      
   Why?  It is religion to them, or what?  I mean, is it a matter of faith to   
   them that Golding is scripture, beyond catcalls?  I thought we were   
   commenting on literary efforts here, and self-censorship was limited to not   
   making personal attacks going by Usenet posting standards.  Are the beliefs   
   of the Golding cultists that shaky?   
      
   > "Strange" is OK, but "wrong" is quite wrong, and it's true that it's well   
   > written in parts, but those are _all_ the parts.   
      
   Wow, what support for Golding!  I must say that I was being rather kind to   
   Golding.  My classmates found it ridiculous as a whole - looks like the   
   indoctrination of the concept of evil being inherent in humans did not make   
   any inroads into their young minds.  In my case, the parts I liked were   
   those related to Simon, who stood for research, and thus, when the wrong   
   supernatural elements in the book are deleted, found out that the reasons   
   for our fears are unfounded - it is fear for its own sake that is the   
   greatest enemy, and indeed such was the cause of his death.   
   > --   
   > derek   
      
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