Casual reading

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

 

“I don’t think there is a casual reader of Nancy Drew.  There may be casual readers of Proust, but not of Nancy Drew.”

—Fran Lebowitz, quoted in “Nancy Drew: Curious, Independent and Usually Right,” National Public Radio, June 23, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

Ha! Awesome quote.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Fran is generally awesome. :-)

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I was an obsessive reader of Nancy Drew when I was a kid. My aunt gave me a box of the original books. I wish I still had those!

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Here's my sordid confession: I never read Nancy Drew. But I understand the attraction because many friends adored her.

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

I share your sordid confession -- I tried reading one Nancy Drew and dropped it in disgust. Loved the Hardy Boys, though.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I never read the Hardy Boys, either. :*) I was too involved in sff even then, although I loved books about horses. Crazy for them!

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

Misty of Chincoteague! Plus other Henrys. And Farley.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Yes, Misty! Plus Old Bones, Black Gold and other "real" racehorse books written for kids. Smokey, Flicka, Thunderhead...but I never even heard of Farley until I was grownup if you can believe it. Oh, and Sand Dune Pony. I still have some of those.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

am i the only trixie belden fan in the world?

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Must be.

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

I'd have read them if I'd gotten my hands on them. I think I may have found one, somewhere, after hearing they existed.

I can remember feeling exasperated (and deprived!) when I would run across references to a *whole series of books* I didn't have and hadn't read, even at a young age before I did serious book shopping.

Mom got a batch of Happy Hollister books once, by some mail arrangement, and I remember (though at the time it was overwhelmed by OH LOOK a dozen books I haven't read yet) thinking, you can get books by mail? why doesn't that happen around here more often?

The next thing I remember thinking, before I even had my hands on one of them, was, "Why did she only get this many? Weren't there any more?" ;)

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

lol--it was frustrating trying to hunt down series before the internet made things so easy. I finally collected the entire Rosemary Sutcliff series that I loved as a kid, mostly because I'd been so frustrated back then.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

wait, wait, wait -- you got books by mail? I had to wait until the internet was invented for that treat!

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that something? If it's any comfort, I didn't get any *more* by mail until I was old enough to do my own ordering. . . via internet. :)

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

Though I guess could have done, if I'd been willing to sign up for a book club where you have to hope they offer something you want every month for however long your obligation lasts. Didn't trust em' to pick what I wanted!

[littlemoremasks.livejournal.com]

I loved Nancy Drew as a kid, much more interesting to me than the Hardy boys because on the basic premise she was always alone.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I never read Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys. I developed a taste for mysteries later. I wish I had, but I was caught up in sff, Rosemary Sutcliff, and horse books as a kid.