Run for the hills- Danie has unleashed The Teacher upon us all!!!!
Both of you better watch it. You don't want to miss THIS recess.Yes, Miss! At once, Miss! I do everything you say, Miss! But pleeaase let me get recess....
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Run for the hills- Danie has unleashed The Teacher upon us all!!!!
Both of you better watch it. You don't want to miss THIS recess.Yes, Miss! At once, Miss! I do everything you say, Miss! But pleeaase let me get recess....
Nope... looks like teacher is only after the two of you. (but, I'll sneak you some lunch if she doesn't let you out by then...)Run for the hills- Danie has unleashed The Teacher upon us all!!!!
Both of you better watch it. You don't want to miss THIS recess.
Oh ho ho. Hold on a minute, missy.Nope... looks like teacher is only after the two of you. (but, I'll sneak you some lunch if she doesn't let you out by then...)
Dammit...Oh ho ho. Hold on a minute, missy.
No sneaking of lunches or any other illegal substances that you might have in that pretty little head of yours.
Yes, lunches are illegal here, so don't act like you're allowed to eat, and allow others to sneakily eat, I might add, without due process of punishment, law, and reprehensibility.
Dammit...
On to plan B...
I don't have a plan B. I think you boys are going to starve!
If that's not made of chocolate, Danie...
My bad, Flakes. I'm replacing the above with:If that's not made of chocolate, Danie...
I was just being rude...My bad, Flakes. I'm replacing the above with:
...I'm surprised that no-one mentioned Bradbury...I was devouring his stuff in pre-pubescence and I think the Muskie fingerling would enjoy it as well...Thanx everybody. I've made note of a few suggestions, some sound right up the kid's alley. Others...not so much. Jules Verne? I should be so lucky. I have most of E.R. Burroughs Mars books on the shelf--he's seen em, thought little of the concept. "Looks like Conan," he said. Told him it was similar to Conan, tried to explain the difference between sword-n-planet and sword-n-sorcery. Kids these days, they don't even bother feigning interest. "That's stupid," he said. "There's no air on Mars."
Anyhoo, figure I'll start with Heinlein and go from there. The early stuff, anyhoo. I rather him not learn how to 'grok' quite yet.
...I'm surprised that no-one mentioned Bradbury...I was devouring his stuff in pre-pubescence and I think the Muskie fingerling would enjoy it as well...
...would he dig Something Wicked?.....Oh! I actually did mention Bradbury to him. Doubt it made it past his 'rambling Dad' filter.
Holy cats, I remember when they did The Martian Chronicles for TV. I couldn't have been more than five, and it scared the livin bejesus outta me. That whole 'Mars Is Heaven' sequence, where all the astronauts lost loved ones turn into murderous Martian creeps...brrr...(of course, it didn't help having Nicholas Hammand--tv's Spider-Man--get killed by aliens. Five year-olds can't process that kinda info).
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is my recommendation. The book is sooo much better than the movie. Of course!
Piers Anthony has written so many books it's actually kind of staggering. I read so many of them when I was a teenager. If your son likes Halo, I am guessing he would have no trouble appreciating Cthon, which is one of the most memorable to me.
Piers Anthony: 3 Classic Piers Anthony Titles Now Available as e-Book, "Mute," "Chthon," and "Phthor."
It holds up well, since he is on an alien planet, no one questions why he has no cell phone! LOL
Some suggestions;
Harry Harrison: West of Eden, Winter in Eden, Return to Eden
John Wyndham: The Chrysalids, Kraken wakes (aka Out of the Deeps), Day of the Triffids, The Net
John Christopher: The Tripod-series (4 bbooks), The Possessors, The Death of Grass
Edgar rice Burroughs: The first 3-4 John Carter books. (A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars and Warlord of Mars)
Ursula K. Leguin: The Earthsea-trilogy: A wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore
Jack Vance: The Tschai-books: City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir and The Pnume
and my nephew loves Terry Pratchett
and i actually recommend The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
All of these are relatively short but good. Perhaps with the exception of Harrison which is good but a little longer and takes place in a world where inheritors of the dinosaurs have developed a high culture, language and a society which has humans as their servants. The hero of the book grows up with them, rebels and try to form a new human society. Good but perhaps wait a bit with that one.
Then i liked Hugh Howeys trilogy Wool, Shift and Dust but perhaps a good idea to wait a few years before that one.
And if you can stand that they are old the best of Jules Verne is still worth reading. Some of his SF arent SF anymore, like trips to the moon or submarines that go deep, but they are full of adventure and fun to read.
...would he dig Something Wicked?.....
Lookin on Amazon for Heinlein, for my punk, Hunter (son)--added Starship Troopers to the cart...then saw a Heinlein for Papa. His Glory Road, (1963)--his later stuff, after S.I.A.S.L. This seems his only foray into Sword-n-Sorcery style interplanetary adventure, concerning a Vietnam vet answering a want ad in a newspaper, "Are you a coward? Or a tough, fortune seeking soldier for hire without family and knowledge of weapons--etc." having no family, nothing to lose, he answers the add, and is transported to a fantastical realm of swords, dragons, battle, and scantily clad babes needing rescue. Sounds like fun, in a tongue in cheek way--and of course, Heinlein supposedly wraps it all up with a trademark twist at the end...we'll see. Sounds like a hoot and a half.
Again, thanx everybody for the suggestions. Live long and Foster Brooks.