Right on! I believe my mother was giving me Camus at that age, too.
She also introduced me to Narnia; first, reading LWW to me when I was little, and then giving me my uncle's old copies of all seven books to read on my own. She had read them so many years ago that she couldn't remember the Christian themes (I brought up the subject of Last Battle recently and she said that she didn't remember the ending or why Pullman would object to it so strongly).
I keep recommending the Narnia books to people who didn't read them as children; they really are well-written, entertaining, and occasionally quite powerful stories. They probably don't have the same impact on adults, though -- I remember understanding overall that they were supposed to be Christian metaphors, but the specific iconography wasn't familiar to me, so it all seemed very new and exciting.
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Date: 2005-12-13 05:59 pm (UTC)She also introduced me to Narnia; first, reading LWW to me when I was little, and then giving me my uncle's old copies of all seven books to read on my own. She had read them so many years ago that she couldn't remember the Christian themes (I brought up the subject of Last Battle recently and she said that she didn't remember the ending or why Pullman would object to it so strongly).
I keep recommending the Narnia books to people who didn't read them as children; they really are well-written, entertaining, and occasionally quite powerful stories. They probably don't have the same impact on adults, though -- I remember understanding overall that they were supposed to be Christian metaphors, but the specific iconography wasn't familiar to me, so it all seemed very new and exciting.