I read "The Uses of Enchantment" by Bruno Bettelheim. Because of this book I started reading fairy tales to my kid, and he and my husband read Tolkien and story books like "Where the Wild
Things Are" together. He - our kid-loves to read - fantasy and sci-fi, like Sheckley, Asimov,, and also comic books like Archie & Spiderman which we have stacks of, which I love. It's not frying his brain at all and he's doing just fine.
I've read the Lord of the Rings three times, not many books do I read more than once. The only other one that I've read as much, three times, is the historical novel Wind from the Carolinas, a 1964 novel by Robert Wilder.
Science fiction I would say is just as important, if not more so than fantasy. So many great authors such as Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke, Herbert, Zelazny, Ellison to name just a few!
Interesting. I can't relate however. As a little boy from the get-go I was a builder and creator, only read when I was forced to do so in school. I did a little fiction reading as a young teenager (Hardy Boys) but generally avoided fiction, and especially science fiction and fantasy. As an adult I read a lot, but its 100% non-fiction, I generally can't stand fiction of any kind (as the written word). I believe that in the adult world, the majority of fiction/literature readers are women. Just an interesting fact.
I read "The Uses of Enchantment" by Bruno Bettelheim. Because of this book I started reading fairy tales to my kid, and he and my husband read Tolkien and story books like "Where the Wild
Things Are" together. He - our kid-loves to read - fantasy and sci-fi, like Sheckley, Asimov,, and also comic books like Archie & Spiderman which we have stacks of, which I love. It's not frying his brain at all and he's doing just fine.
I've read the Lord of the Rings three times, not many books do I read more than once. The only other one that I've read as much, three times, is the historical novel Wind from the Carolinas, a 1964 novel by Robert Wilder.
Science fiction I would say is just as important, if not more so than fantasy. So many great authors such as Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke, Herbert, Zelazny, Ellison to name just a few!
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Interesting. I can't relate however. As a little boy from the get-go I was a builder and creator, only read when I was forced to do so in school. I did a little fiction reading as a young teenager (Hardy Boys) but generally avoided fiction, and especially science fiction and fantasy. As an adult I read a lot, but its 100% non-fiction, I generally can't stand fiction of any kind (as the written word). I believe that in the adult world, the majority of fiction/literature readers are women. Just an interesting fact.