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Beverly Cleary has died
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#32With respect, this does not belong on hackernews.
With respect, you are the one in violation of the guidelines:
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
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#33With respect, this does not belong on hackernews.
With respect, you are the one in violation of the guidelines: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
The guidelines are bullshit. They are only enforced when a post is unpopular. By the way, replying to a comment by repeating its central motif is the most retarded, autistic, Reddit-power-user shit in the world. It makes you look like an idiot
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#34One of the fondest memories of my life will be my mother reading me "The Mouse And The Motorcycle" when I was just a chunk of a lad. For my entire life, my answer to "Who is your favorite living female author?" was Beverly Cleary. I feel that I, and the world, have been stripped of a little light today. We'll never recover from this loss, but I hope that we can rebuild in the precocious and excited spirit her books embody. Rest In Peace.
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#36just dropped in this thread to say Beverly is a beautiful Anglo game and so rarely used anymore.
My son's name appears [is the mode] the most on the United States Declaration of Independence. But it's rarely heard these days (in the States, certainly). Beverly is right there in the beauty / innovation (uniqueness) rario.
/Acey
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#37I really enjoyed her books when I was a kid. I'm male but I really loved the Ramona and Beezus books. The male version (Henry Huggins?) was no where near as fun as Ramona and Beezus books. Those books, Judy Blume books, Roald Dahl books (Danny, Champion of the World) and C.S. Lewis books formed the basis of most of my reading for a few good years.
Were the Ramona books supposed to be for girls only? I loved them as a kid, too, never thought of them as girl books.
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#38I hated those books. They read as if written like what an adult thinks kids are like instead of being what kids think kids are like. Every kid-character was a thoughtless menace to everyone else around them without a shred of empathy. That’s great if you’re an adult who hates kids but as a kid, I didn’t want to identify with the characters at all. I know Nancy Drew/the Hardy Boys were perhaps unrealistically intellig…
I have no idea why you are being downvoted. This is a valid
and interesting opinion.
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#39I hated those books. They read as if written like what an adult thinks kids are like instead of being what kids think kids are like. Every kid-character was a thoughtless menace to everyone else around them without a shred of empathy. That’s great if you’re an adult who hates kids but as a kid, I didn’t want to identify with the characters at all. I know Nancy Drew/the Hardy Boys were perhaps unrealistically intellig…
I hear you on this. I loved the Ramona books when I was a kid, but I also got so frustrated with Ramona because she acted so irrationally. My favorite was "Beezus and Ramona" because it was told from Beezus' point of view and I identified with her much better. I think maybe some kids are just Ramonas and some are Beezuses.
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#40I really enjoyed her books when I was a kid. I'm male but I really loved the Ramona and Beezus books. The male version (Henry Huggins?) was no where near as fun as Ramona and Beezus books. Those books, Judy Blume books, Roald Dahl books (Danny, Champion of the World) and C.S. Lewis books formed the basis of most of my reading for a few good years.
Were the Ramona books supposed to be for girls only? I loved them as a kid, too, never thought of them as girl books.
I truly don’t mean this to be provocative. The Ramona books weren’t “books for girls” per se, but the default perspective in literature, especially kids’ lit in that era, is male. That it’s a book which appeals to everyone, but is written from a girl’s perspective, causes male readers to wonder if it’s “for” them.