XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.books.childrens   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: news@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Arindam Banerjee wrote:   
      
   > "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.  You're mistaken in trolling: ie, making comments that will be   
   clearly inflammatory to some of those lists.   
      
   >>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,   
      
   Golding?  You really need to be more careful who you're criticizing.  "Lord   
   of the Rings", not "Lord of the Flies"! Still if you'd made the same   
   comment on a Golding group, I'd call it inflammatory.   
      
   >> "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   
      
   Since we _are_ now discussing Golding, I'd suggest that the evidence of the   
   effect of _making_ the movie of /Lord of the Flies/ on the children   
   involved suggests that Golding was right on the mark.  They turned into   
   little savages.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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