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Re: Reading Jules Verne--any takers?

From: <Greg.Kinney~at~UCHSC.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:33:48 -0600
To: <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

I read 20,000 Leagues and Mysterious Island between 5th and 6th grade.
My godkid read Mysterious Island when he was around 10 cause I bribed him to do it. Now he's read several others because "they're pretty cool".

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> In a message dated 9/16/04 12:33:12 AM, nwolcott2~at~kreative.net writes:
>
> << I would like to know if anyone has any solid evidence of
> an English
> speaking person under age 30 who has ever read a book in
> English by Jules Verne.
> Perhaps we could offer a prize.
>
>
> nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu Friar Wolcott, Gutenberg Abbey,
> Sherwood Forrest
>
> >>
> REPLY: I myself before adolescence not merely read Verne but
> collected him in
> paperback (the I.O. Evans translations, of course, but that's
> where youth is
> by definition foolish) -- my renewed interest in recent
> years, including
> joining this Forum, is this an ember stirred back to flame
> rather than anything
> truly novel.
> Ross
>
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