tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post5489447822444510738..comments2023-12-18T07:59:16.525-05:00Comments on Hats and Rabbits: The Maze of HeroicsChris Matarazzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-61968140056400506532011-12-30T20:11:46.433-05:002011-12-30T20:11:46.433-05:00Jeff -- I have been hinting at the Prydian books t...Jeff -- I have been hinting at the Prydian books to my 10 year old, but no luck, yet -- not enough baseball in it. Maybe my seven year old and I will read Prydian together soon. I do want to read the Wesmark stuff, as well, Jeff --the Prydian series was some of the most delightful reading I have ever done. Love Alexander's work.Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-50781610245964583652011-12-30T17:33:29.429-05:002011-12-30T17:33:29.429-05:00Chris, if you're looking to temper your kids&#...Chris, if you're looking to temper your kids' views after watching the action sequences in movies, you might (depending on their ages) turn them to Lloyd Alexander's Prydian series, or his more mature, magic-free, underrated Westmark series. The former (as I suspect you know) culminates in a book that focuses on the human cost of even a just and necessary war, while the latter is a serious look at violence, politics, and armed revolution. Heck, I think you'd appreciate the Westmark series yourself.Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-61638971911787504312011-12-29T21:04:09.699-05:002011-12-29T21:04:09.699-05:00'nora -- No, I haven't read it, but it in ...'nora -- No, I haven't read it, but it in now officially on my list.<br /><br />I'm alway conscious of that -- that some readers, like yourself, might have very real military roots or ties. If one really believes in the cause of a fight, then the whole perspective is bound to be different. I got thinking about WW2 after I wrote this -- if ever there was a time to fight . . . Still, war is so counter to everything I hold dear. Gah! You're right -- many tomes of many pages needed.Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-79990983341674967262011-12-28T10:25:11.723-05:002011-12-28T10:25:11.723-05:00Not sure which quote you read, but the one I alway...Not sure which quote you read, but the one I always think of is from G.K. Chesterton: "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered" from his short essay 'On Running After One's Hat' (http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/gkc16004.htm)<br /><br />As for the rest of it, I'm both a soldier's daughter and a soldier's wife, so my perspective is a little different (I may in fact be at once more and less cynical than you are on the issue, if that's possible). It would take me several hundred pages to work that all out so maybe I'll just ask if you've ever read Chesterton's novel _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ instead'norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673994227824410949noreply@blogger.com