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Re: Reading Jules Verne--any takers?

From: rick walter <rick1walter~at~comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:52:21 -0700
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Walter-- Many thanks for the compliment, and congrats yourself on TMO appearing in pbk. Looking forward to your new front and end matter. Best regards, Rick.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Walter J Miller
  To: Jules Verne Forum
  Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 9:13 AM
  Subject: Re: Reading Jules Verne--any takers?



  Rick, this is the best answer so far to this productive question. Back at work on TMH> Will reread notes, text, your 3 proposals for "Intro", your corrections to my Notes, etc., and then begin work on a draft of "Foreword" and "Afterword." Art Evans tells me our TMO is going into paperback! Cheers! Walter----- Original Message -----

  From: rick walter <rick1walter~at~comcast.net>

  Date: Friday, September 17, 2004 1:17 am

  Subject: Re: Reading Jules Verne--any takers?


> In my first two years as a public librarian, I've seen innumerable
> kids check out full-text Verne novels from facilities where I've
> worked. And the volumes HAVE been read cover to cover. How do I
> know? Because in most cases they were new copies I'd ordered
> myself, and as you know, it's easy to tell when a book has
> actually been read.
>
> Yes, 20,000 LEAGUES standardly shows up on high school and jr.
> high reading lists, but the simple fact is that the books
> circulate promptly if the librarian displays them or puts them in
> the "new book bin." Both of which I've done. 20,000 LEAGUES, 80
> DAYS, CENTER OF THE EARTH, and MYSTERIOUS ISLAND all check out
> continually, and much of it seems to be "impulse shopping." And
> one other thing: these books are now available in attractive
> modern translations and have suddenly become much more digestible
> fare than Stevenson, Twain, and others whose 19th century English
> is now tougher going for today's youth.
>
> In my opinion, one of the above titles, JCE, is literally sure-
> fire with kids--thanks not only to its prehistoric monsters but to
> its speed, compactness, humor, still-novel adventures, and
> masterly blend of the bizarre and the believable, I've never seen
> it fail with either boys or girls. Yep, Verne is still a going
> concern in the American heartland.
>
> All the best,
> Rick Walter in Albuquerque.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Norm Wolcott
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:25 PM
> Subject: Reading Jules Verne--any takers?
>
>
> 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
>
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