When I was a kid, the books I read were written by Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexandre Dumas, Karl May, Emilio Salgari, HG Welles, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Michael Moorcock, Old Man Tolkien and many, many more.
These books gave to me worlds and lifetimes of purest adventure. I didn't need stories made just for children, condescending and full of hand-holding. Nothing written in this age of straight-to-kindle WHORESHIT can and will ever measure up to these classics.
But, this made-for-kids drivel? This is nothing other than welfare literature. Like everywhere else in the entertainment industry, these "writers"' works are published so they don't starve to death. And it's their audience that has to suffer their incompetence.
When I was a kid, the books I read were written by Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexandre Dumas, Karl May, Emilio Salgari, HG Welles, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Michael Moorcock, Old Man Tolkien and many, many more.
These books gave to me worlds and lifetimes of purest adventure. I didn't need stories made just for children, condescending and full of hand-holding. Nothing written in this age of straight-to-kindle WHORESHIT can and will ever measure up to these classics.
But, this made-for-kids drivel? This is nothing other than welfare literature. Like everywhere else in the entertainment industry, these "writers"' works are published so they don't starve to death. And it's their audience that has to suffer their incompetence.
Some of the very first books I read as a kid were Lord of the Rings, and I'm very glad for that.