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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 17:54:44 JST clacke
   stop shaming people for reading kids’ books. adult books are about sad people having affairs while kids’ books have a magic tree house or a worm driving an apple. you tell me who’s winning

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 17:56:21 JST clacke

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     #NotAllAdultBooks
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 18:00:37 JST clacke

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     I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.

     -- C. S. Lewis, "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952) — in "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories" (1967), p. 24

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     Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 23:09:09 JST Mans R

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     @clacke Good children's books are enjoyable also for adults, whether through humour or additional layers of meaning. Bad ones are just cringey.

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