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Star Trek: The Next Generation is topping the charts for me. I still love a ton of books from my childhood too...the classics like Little House on the Prairie and basically everything Roald Dahl ever wrote, and Island of the Blue Dolphins was one that really stuck with me.

Also, Ace of Base.

All of your book choices fucking rock. You rock. Especially the Little House on the Prairie books. Those are what got me into reading.

While we're on the subject, how do you feel about the Laura Ingalls Wilder memoir that's going to be published soon? I guess it's supposed to be a little less...charming of a portrayal of what she went through during those days than the Little House series would have you think.

I'm equal parts interested, because I'd like to know the reality of it, and cautious because I worry it'll wreck the fuzzy happy memories I have of that series. So conflicted.

MMmmm. I probably won't read unless it gets really good reviews. I'll have to read up on it.

But I listened to a podcast that was about Laura Ingalls. And it discussed how some things were different in real life and how some things were changed to make a better story.

And really, I don't blame her (or the publisher?) for changing events/settings to engage the audience more.

What is your favorite book in the series?

That's about how I feel about it too. I'm wondering if I can maybe separate the two..."canons" for lack of a better term, to make myself feel a little better about it, haha.

Oh man. I'm sort of boring in that regard, because Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie really are my favorites of the series, but I do have a huuuuge soft spot for By the Shores of Silver Lake. How about you?

Either Farmer Boy or Little House on the Prairie. The Long Winter is also one I really enjoy. I need to buy the series but last time I looked they were ridiculously expensive.

Aw, are they? That's a shame. :/ Have you heard of Paperback Swap? You might have some luck through that if you've got some books you're willing to get rid of. I'm pretty much constantly trading in and refreshing my bookcase through that.

I'm curious now. I've never bothered to fact check any of those books... but they didn't strike me as overly happy or soft things.

I mean, The Long Winter was basically about everyone nearly starving to death. By The Shores Of Silver Lake was about her sister being newly blind from scarlet fever...

Little House In The Big Woods was about the happiest one of them, and it still contained a lot of apparent fear of being eaten by cougars.

The podcast I listened to was pretty short, iirc correctly. Definitely less than an hour long. I could try and find it real quick?

Oh man, The Long Winter has some great moments.

It does. It really does. I'll forever remember how masterfully it managed to impart that very visceral sense of constant peril.

I can not imagine being that cold, and I've been in some pretty cold places.

The one scene from it that I will ALWAYS remember is when Pa realizes that Almanzo and Royal have hidden wheat in the wall of their house. And he discovered it because the outside of the building was too big for the inside. It was just a marvelous idea to me.

Little House is made of awesome.

Did you know the series is on some peoples'/organizations "Not recommended" lists because it gives an unflattering/one-sided portrayal of the settlers vs. the Native Americans, or because Charles Ingalls was allegedly a bad/irresponsible husband and father? *Facepalms* I'm like, dude, the point of the books was not political or social commentary, it was to show kids of later generations what it was like for a settler's child to grow up in those places, in those days. Sheesh.

That's odd to me. Even as a kid I knew that the viewpoint on the natives was wrong, and even Laura in the books seemed to react negatively to her mother's fairly blatant racism (taking more after her more ambivalent-- if not exactly anti-racist-- father), so it's...not like it was being portrayed in a good light? The whole thing was from Laura's point of view, how or why would she know any better than the one-sided portrayal she was growing up with?

I know, I feel the same way.

IIRC, Laura was scared of the natives and thought they smelled bad (of course she had no way of understanding the horrible conditions they were living under at the time, or that it was the white man's fault,) but she was just a little kid reacting to unfamiliar people with strange ways and weapons, and the fact that her mother was frightened. And her father at least seemed to appreciate that they were more than the filthy savages Caroline called them. He showed them a modicum of respect and seemed to realize, from some of the things he took his daughters to see, that there was something going on that the settlers had a duty to bear witness to and treat with a sense of solemnity, if not out-and-out guilt.

Even the most overtly racist thing Charles did in the books--appearing in blackface at a town function--struck me more as 'product of the times' ignorance than malice. Which isn't to excuse it, but I came away with the impression that if any actual African-Americans had come into the story--which I do not recall happening, though I could be wrong, it's been some time since I read them--Charles would probably not have treated them much differently than he would any other neighbor.

There is an African-American doctor in Little House on the Prairie, iirc, during the episode where the whole family gets malaria.

Pffft. Oh man, the whole series is on amazon for only like $36. D:

*GRABBYHANDS*

I am totally going to buy it when I get paid.

ACE OF BASE.

I also liked Little House. I had the entire novel series in a collection. So much better than anything having to do with Green Gables.

I STILL JAM OUT TO THE ENTIRE "THE SIGN" ALBUM. I ADMIT IT.

Same, I still have my set! They're dog-eared to hell and practically falling apart, but I love them still. Ahaha, my only experience with Anne of Green Gables was the old TV show, Road to Avonlea, which...I really hated. I remember being bored senseless by it.

I love Anne of Green Gables but hated Road to Avonlea. They're really different iirc.

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AYRT. And TL;DR XD

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