From the mouths of babes...

[rflong]

I spent the last couple of hours (in and around my lunch break and 45 minutes or so on either side) with my 6 year old son. As half term break begins today, he was off school at 12.30. So I picked him up, did a couple of jobs for work I needed to do - shopping chores and took him to the dreaded golden arches.

We did have an interesting conversation regarding The Dark is Rising and its arrival in cinemas here. He asked if I had read the book and I replied that I had. 

"When?" he asked.

"I read the first one when I was about your age." Ok a lie, a white lie, but he needs to think mummy was a child prodigy. I think it was read to me, which isn't so different to a 6 year old.

He thought about this and then asked, "What? 120,000 years ago."

Thank you darling!

He also expressed some concern about earthquakes and whether we got them in Ireland. I said sometimes, but were usually out at sea and they weren't strong. That lead to a much more worrying question.

"Do we get salamis?"

"Salamis? Like on pizza?" We were in the supermarket afterall. He gave me that look. If you know a kid, you know the look. It's the one that says you've clearly lost your mind, mother, and why do I always have to deal with it?

"No. Salamis. Giant waves!"

I didn't have the heart to correct him. Or the breath (I couldn't stop laughing).

:D

Comments

[mordraeth.livejournal.com]

That's great :) I love those bewildering questions from my daughter. Most days anyway :)

Dark is Rising

[gabriel-writes.livejournal.com]

My daughter used to shuffle word order around. When corrected, she'd just repeat what she originally said. She occasionally does it still.

Anyway, don't expect the Dark is Rising to be anything like you remember it to be. Toss the book in a blender, add milk and eggs, bake at mark 3 and that is what you got. Nothing like the original, however, I found some of the changes made endearing just as I though some of them were quite irksome.

Too bad there isn't any kind of a happy medium.

[clhollandwriter]

Oh, priceless!

Very few fantasy films made from books ever resemble the source materials as closely as the fans would like - Stardust, The Studion Ghibli Earthsea and Howl's Moving Castle, The Neverending Story..... The Princess Bride is the closest I've seen so far.

I'll probably watch The Dark is Rising, I'll just avoid reading the books again until well afterwards. :-D

[rflong.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm trying to treat it as another fantasy film rather than Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising. I got burned that way with *shudder* "Not"-Bram Stoker's Dracula!

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

Ha, how cute!