I say let's start this book. I am having difficuly getting Satan Bug, my hotmail account is on the fritz and I need something entertaining to read over Easter to take my mind off THIS STUFF! What do you say?
I'm up for starting PP. I might be a smidge behind because I want to finish my current book (Interview with a Vampire) first, but I only have 100 pages left, so not TOO far behind. :-)
I have only read the first chapter and I am in love! I hope this continues. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the part about Mrs. Darling tidying up the children's minds. "It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for morning..." That paragraph just melts my heart.
I've only read the first 75 pages, but I am also in love! It is just as whimsical and fun as I had hoped it would be! The way Barrie describes the males in the book is hilarious! While there is some gender stereotyping (which is to be expected with that time period), at least there is no male superiority! If anything, the men/boys are treated worse by Barrie than the women/girls!
I finished it yesterday while waiting for the Easter ham to bake. I really enjoyed it, especially Hook's obsession with good form and Tinkerbell's foul mouth. Did you notice the sentence about the fairies coming back from an orgy? :-)
Wendy's focus on domesticity and motherhood seemed a bit overly much and stereotypical, but I guess you can't have everything in a book! I talked about liking it so much that now Ken is reading it. I'll let you know what his comments are, but it will probably be a few weeks before he finishes.
I finished last night and did enjoy it. I was also surprised by Tinkerbell's mouth. I don't think she said much else besides "You silly ass." Yes, those fairies lead quite a life!
I enjoyed the end when Hook is trying to fetch the doodle-doo. I think I could somehow use that expression.
My copy had a biography of Barrie at the end of the book. Sounds like he was quite involved in the play. That may explain why the book is different than the movie/play, he might have had second thoughts on some parts? The play has so much more emphasis on "Do you believe in fairies?".
I'm on chapter six and loving it. I especially like the bit about fairies being either all good or all bad. Sometimes that's exactly how I feel! This book is endearing in the same way Winnie the Pooh was. Great pick, M!
I finished tonight. What a lovely book! I absolutely adore the foul-mouthed Tinkerbell. And I loved the last chapter, it's so true how childhood slips away in outgrown clothes and academics..
I rather enjoyed Wendy's over-mothering, it's just the type of thing we used to do when little and playing house. It's funny the actions that kids pick up on to mimick, or rather, the few actions they pick to be the essentials of parenting. Bedtimes and medicine, with some sewing thrown in.
Would anyone like to compare Hook's obsession with Pan and good form with Ahab's obsession with the white whale? No? Good, me neither.
Also, blue fairies don't know their gender? LOVE IT.
I just watched the theatrical version by Barry. It is quite similar to the book, as I expected it would be. In the book there is more about Wendy's parents and a bit more about about Neverland than the play, but otherwise quite close. I recommend it, if you get the chance. It is much better than the Disney version of Peter Pan.
This past weekend on the way back from my conference we stopped in Stratford, ON, and watched Peter Pan at the theater. It wasn't Barrie's version of the play, but rather an adaptation of the book, narrated, in part, by Barrie. It was fantastic!
I wanted to share part of the playbill with you. In the production, the character of Peter Pan was played by a male rather than female, which is traditional. The playbill explains, "For a work inspired by (and ostensibly written to amuse) children, it is asstonishingly full of adult psychological overtones, even if they are frequently obscured by cotton-candy sanitization (as in Disney's 1953 animation). For instance, Peter professes to hate his own mother, yet desires to turn his chaste Wendy into one. As for the persona of Peter himself, only the theatre tradition of casting an adult actress in the role cloaked Barrie's audacity in creatin a stage hero who was both a pubescent child and also dangerously charismatic, even sexy. ... As much as I wanted to believe the contrary, Peter Pan was a very sad young man. His life was filled with contradictions, conflicts, and confusion. His world was hostile and unrelenting. For all his gaeity, he was a deeply troubled boy living in an even more troubling time. He was caught in the abyss between the man he didn't want to become and the boy he could no longer be. The legion of Lost Boys has members of all ages. Many "successful" adult men today still behave like lost children."
And yes, Tinkerbell was foul-mouthed and naughty in the play!
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I say let's start this book. I am having difficuly getting Satan Bug, my hotmail account is on the fritz and I need something entertaining to read over Easter to take my mind off THIS STUFF! What do you say?
I'll mail you my copy of The Satan Bug. In the meantime, let's start PP.
I'm up for starting PP. I might be a smidge behind because I want to finish my current book (Interview with a Vampire) first, but I only have 100 pages left, so not TOO far behind. :-)
I haven't even bought PP yet so you are both ahead of me!
I have only read the first chapter and I am in love! I hope this continues. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the part about Mrs. Darling tidying up the children's minds. "It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for morning..." That paragraph just melts my heart.
I've only read the first 75 pages, but I am also in love! It is just as whimsical and fun as I had hoped it would be! The way Barrie describes the males in the book is hilarious! While there is some gender stereotyping (which is to be expected with that time period), at least there is no male superiority! If anything, the men/boys are treated worse by Barrie than the women/girls!
Disney's Peter Pan just doesn't do it justice.
I finished it yesterday while waiting for the Easter ham to bake. I really enjoyed it, especially Hook's obsession with good form and Tinkerbell's foul mouth. Did you notice the sentence about the fairies coming back from an orgy? :-)
Wendy's focus on domesticity and motherhood seemed a bit overly much and stereotypical, but I guess you can't have everything in a book! I talked about liking it so much that now Ken is reading it. I'll let you know what his comments are, but it will probably be a few weeks before he finishes.
I finished last night and did enjoy it. I was also surprised by Tinkerbell's mouth. I don't think she said much else besides "You silly ass." Yes, those fairies lead quite a life!
I enjoyed the end when Hook is trying to fetch the doodle-doo. I think I could somehow use that expression.
My copy had a biography of Barrie at the end of the book. Sounds like he was quite involved in the play. That may explain why the book is different than the movie/play, he might have had second thoughts on some parts? The play has so much more emphasis on "Do you believe in fairies?".
Good pick, Melissa.
OMG. I still don't have a copy and I'm missing all the fun! Tonight - SHOPPING!
I'm on chapter six and loving it. I especially like the bit about fairies being either all good or all bad. Sometimes that's exactly how I feel! This book is endearing in the same way Winnie the Pooh was. Great pick, M!
I finished tonight. What a lovely book! I absolutely adore the foul-mouthed Tinkerbell. And I loved the last chapter, it's so true how childhood slips away in outgrown clothes and academics..
I rather enjoyed Wendy's over-mothering, it's just the type of thing we used to do when little and playing house. It's funny the actions that kids pick up on to mimick, or rather, the few actions they pick to be the essentials of parenting. Bedtimes and medicine, with some sewing thrown in.
Would anyone like to compare Hook's obsession with Pan and good form with Ahab's obsession with the white whale? No? Good, me neither.
Also, blue fairies don't know their gender? LOVE IT.
Awesome pick, Melissa!
Ken read it, but his only comment was that it was "alright" and "made a nice change". And that is why I like the book club!
I just watched the theatrical version by Barry. It is quite similar to the book, as I expected it would be. In the book there is more about Wendy's parents and a bit more about about Neverland than the play, but otherwise quite close. I recommend it, if you get the chance. It is much better than the Disney version of Peter Pan.
This past weekend on the way back from my conference we stopped in Stratford, ON, and watched Peter Pan at the theater. It wasn't Barrie's version of the play, but rather an adaptation of the book, narrated, in part, by Barrie. It was fantastic!
I wanted to share part of the playbill with you. In the production, the character of Peter Pan was played by a male rather than female, which is traditional. The playbill explains, "For a work inspired by (and ostensibly written to amuse) children, it is asstonishingly full of adult psychological overtones, even if they are frequently obscured by cotton-candy sanitization (as in Disney's 1953 animation). For instance, Peter professes to hate his own mother, yet desires to turn his chaste Wendy into one. As for the persona of Peter himself, only the theatre tradition of casting an adult actress in the role cloaked Barrie's audacity in creatin a stage hero who was both a pubescent child and also dangerously charismatic, even sexy. ... As much as I wanted to believe the contrary, Peter Pan was a very sad young man. His life was filled with contradictions, conflicts, and confusion. His world was hostile and unrelenting. For all his gaeity, he was a deeply troubled boy living in an even more troubling time. He was caught in the abyss between the man he didn't want to become and the boy he could no longer be. The legion of Lost Boys has members of all ages. Many "successful" adult men today still behave like lost children."
And yes, Tinkerbell was foul-mouthed and naughty in the play!
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