thread: 2007-01-19 : The Jungle Books
On 2007-01-25, Jonathan wrote:
Yeah, Kipling is pretty amazing. (Assuming you can look beyond his 19th C biases.) Love The Jungle Book, love Just-So Stories ("The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" is absolute brilliance), love "The Man Who Would Be King" (see mention of biases above, though)...I actually own an early printing of "Barrack Room Ballads."
I've actually found a lot of enjoyment in 19th century literature as an adult—I didn't read Wuthering Heights until that awful couple of years in Amherst (1995, I think) and it knocked my socks off. In a completely different way, I finally read "King Solomon's Mines" for a class a few years ago and enjoyed it immensely. Er, I guess I'm drifting. So yeah—Kipling=great.
Oh, and by the way, hi. :-) Hadn't heard from you or Meg in forever, so I thought I'd pop over here to say hello!
