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Originally Posted by crich70
It should be. The books are based on Arthurian legend and the fight between the powers of the Dark and the Light. Most of the important characters that we see onstage are young teenagers with a few adults. There is no graphic sexuality in the series.
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Thanks. To me, even Dragonflight is pretty tame stuff, but still....I'm not his mom, or even that closely, in a familial sense, and I don't want to eliminate any possibility of giving him more broadening materials as he gets older. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by meeera
Definitely appropriate, I read most of it aloud to my (now) 12yo a couple or three years ago. If his parents are the kind of conservative wingnut Xtians who freak out and start gathering kindling at any mention of Pagan mythology, though, he might want to hide them under his pillow.
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OK, good. I thought so, but I've not read them. His folks aren't loons--as I said, they encourage his reading, didn't have any objections to HP or Riordan, so...{shrug}. But, as I said above, I don't want to risk accidentally giving him something that's not appropriate, which would cut me off from future book-giving.
I mean, IIRC, I started LOTR when I was 12, but I was fairly precocious; I'd read GWTW by then. I was thinking (no screaming, folks!) that giving him the Shannara series, as a warm-up, might also be age-appropriate. I mean, let's face it, Brooks is far easier reading than the much-denser Tolkien. And it would give him a good comparison, as he matures (Brooks versus the more complexly written and layered Tolkien).
Thanks, and (not to thread-jack) any other recs for his age group would be AWESOME. In fact--I do feel bad about threadjacking--I'll go start a new thread so that the OP can get recs for her mum.
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