Suggestions for a reading list for a boy?

[Perd Hapley]

Deus ex machina. It just seemed like Verne had tired of the book, and found a too-convenient way to tack on an ending. Like the plot was just cut short, instead of actually playing out.

[Cliffh]

Since the goal is more reading, and a lot of good/great authors have already been mentioned, how about a magazine subscription or two or three?  Almost every magazine I receive includes a project or two, which might encourage him to build something.

BTW, I have to agree that the ending to Journey to the Center was lame.

[roo_ster]

Bsl has a good point.  Reading pulp fiction trumps no reading.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I expanded my vocabulary reading penthouse at that age


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[lee n. field]

I expanded my vocabulary reading penthouse at that age


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And that was, what, 1972?  Do they even still publish Penthouse?

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

71 or 72


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[TommyGunn]

Deus ex machina. It just seemed like Verne had tired of the book, and found a too-convenient way to tack on an ending. Like the plot was just cut short, instead of actually playing out.

We're gonna have to agree to disagree.
Did you atleast like the movie? -- the one with Pat Boone.


 

Never mind .... it ended the same way.

[charby]

I was an advanced reader when I was on primary school. My reading group of 5 students actually finished the 8th grade readers in the middle of sixth grade. So for the next two years our teachers assigned us various books to read and then discuss.

When I was 8-9 years old a couple friends and I decided to read all the Newberry Award winners.

My favorites were Gone Away Lake and Island of the Blue Dolphins. I'm actually thinking about ordering both on my next Amazon order.

I also enjoyed My Side of the Mountain, Summer of the Monkeys and Where the Red Fern Grows. I also remember enjoying Robinson Crusoe around that age.

I was first introduced to the Hobbit in 8th grade, I hated the book because I was not in to fantasy at all, but I read in college for sport and fell in love with Tolkien's command of the English language and how he could create his own languages.

[Hutch]

"The Three Musketeers", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "Robinson Crusoe", "Don Quixote".  Give the lad an international perspective.  Oh, and "Treasure Island".

[TommyGunn]

I was an advanced reader when I was on primary school. My reading group of 5 students actually finished the 8th grade readers in the middle of sixth grade. So for the next two years our teachers assigned us various books to read and then discuss.

When I was 8-9 years old a couple friends and I decided to read all the Newberry Award winners.

My favorites were Gone Away Lake and Island of the Blue Dolphins. I'm actually thinking about ordering both on my next Amazon order.

I also enjoyed My Side of the Mountain, Summer of the Monkeys and Where the Red Fern Grows. I also remember enjoying Robinson Crusoe around that age.

I was first introduced to the Hobbit in 8th grade, I hated the book because I was not in to fantasy at all, but I read in college for sport and fell in love with Tolkien's command of the English language and how he could create his own languages.

They made a film of "Where the Red Fern Grows" back around 1975.  It was low-budget but a pretty good film.
"Hated" the ending .... it made me cry.

[Hawkmoon]

I expanded my vocabulary reading penthouse at that age

I learned the difference between "stationary" (not moving) and "stationery" (paper and envelopes) from reading a Batman comic book around age 12.

[RoadKingLarry]

I'm still not getting why you thought that was such a bad ending ....

Earth beltched and that was that. SPLAT. THE END. 



















Or maybe it was a fart.....

Since there was..ejecta wouldn't that make it a shart?

[TommyGunn]

I expanded my vocabulary reading penthouse at that age


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Yeah, right, you "read" Penthouse.    Sure you did.   

[Unisaw]

Another vote for My Side of the Mountain.  Also:
Rascal, by Sterling North
No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
God Is My Co-Pilot by Robert L. Scott
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators

[lee n. field]

 Sherlock Holmes

yes!

[KD5NRH]

Go big or go home.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

[lee n. field]

Go big or go home.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

if the kid's autistic.

[Perd Hapley]

Sherlock Holmes always reminds me of Poe, who founded the genre. The one where the orangutan beheads the guy might be a little graphic for a kid, but I think the rest of his stuff is age-appropriate.

[Chuck Dye]

Since there was..ejecta wouldn't that make it a shart?

Cargo farts are the ones that carry loads.

At about that age I binged on Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and even my sister's Nancy Drew.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Sherlock Holmes always reminds me of Poe, who founded the genre. The one where the orangutan beheads the guy might be a little graphic for a kid, but I think the rest of his stuff is age-appropriate.

I don't know about Poe being appropriate at any age.

The tell tale heart gave me nightmares. *shudder*

[roo_ster]

Most memorable assigned reading in high school was the cask of amantillado by poe.  Murder at the rue morgue also a favorite.

[Perd Hapley]

Murder at the rue morgue also a favorite.

I believe that's the orangutan one.

[Ron]

 "TOM!"

No answer.

"TOM!"

No answer.

"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"

No answer.

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service -- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:

"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll --"

[Boomhauer]

I do not suggest Shakespeare, at least in the original dialect. Hell I was assigned to read Othello in college and could not understand it at all until I got ahold of a modernized translation. Modernized translation, sure, great stuff to read.

I also had a hard time reading Mark Twains books where he writes out the accent of various characters. I had when I was a kid, a bunch of classic young adult novels (Twain, Poe, Count of Monte Christo, The Bounty, etc) that were tweaked by the publishing company to make them easier to read, and they were great, very good stories that are captivating. They came in boxed sets/collections.

[Chuck Dye]

Thank you all for the Poe commentaries, I can now return to the recommendation I withdrew on age considerations:  Edogawa Rampo  Talk about messing with your sleep patterns and dreams.  "The Caterpiller" still haunts me.  I see now that a film was made in 2010 and I wonder if I dare watch it.