{"id":60,"date":"2004-09-29T22:05:40","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T02:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=60"},"modified":"2004-09-30T08:39:34","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T12:39:34","slug":"speaking-of-t-s-eliot-avoid-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/speaking-of-t-s-eliot-avoid-this-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of T. S. Eliot (avoid this post!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many and various joys of being the father of a young reader is that you are introduced to some killer books that you would never had read otherwise. Tucker had me read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduscapes.com\/newbery\/99a.htm\">Louis Sacher&#8217;s Holes<\/a> long before it was <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/disneyvideos\/liveaction\/holes\/main.html\">a movie<\/a>; that was great. But then I did have to suffer through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/animorphs\/index.htm\">the Animorphs<\/a>. Even that series has it&#8217;s upsides, particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/animorphs\/books\/animorphography\/bk16.htm\">Number 16 The Warning<\/a> in which our heroes discover a Yerk-devised web site and are lead to the home of an AOL-like founder who may or may not be a powerful alien.<br \/>\nBut one series of books, he has told me to avoid while he devours them. Of course, I too ignored the warnings and dug into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonysnicket.com\/index.cfm\">the Series of Unfortunate Events<\/a>. The latest book, which dear reader unless you wish to fall head first into a pool of your own tears made deep by this tragic story of the Baudelaire orphans you should definitely not read, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonysnicket.com\/descpage.cfm?bookid=71449&#038;type=hardcover\">&#8220;The Grim Grotto&#8221;<\/a> contains puzzles that cannot be solved unless you are well-read. The poetry of Eliot and of Lewis Carroll must be known to know the answers to one of the codes for example. And I do not mean &#8220;Cats&#8221; but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/201\/1.html\">&#8220;Waste land&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nEach of the books, there will be 13 in all, has 13 chapters in which terrible things happen to orphans and others which I cannot write about without feeling faint. And I am feeling beyond faint now as I steel myself to warn you dear reader to prepare yourself for <a href=\"http:\/\/unfortunateeventsmovie.com\">the coming in December of a movie<\/a> with no happy ending, no happy beginning and not much happiness inbetween. Stay home  and go to no movies for a while lest you are forced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/paramount\/lemony_snickets\/medium.html\">to see the trailer<\/a> or worse that you wander into the wrong side of the cineplex and see the sad film itself.<br \/>\nThe author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonysnicket.com\/author.cfm\">Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler<\/a>, also did the interview\/liner notes for one of my favorite CD collections, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoftomorrow.com\/tmf_cd_69ls.php\">69 Love Songs<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoftomorrow.com\/index.php\">Magnetic Fields <\/a>put out by Chapel Hill&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/\">Merge Records.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many and various joys of being the father of a young reader is that you are introduced to some killer books that you would never had read otherwise. 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