My son just came home from school with a permission slip from his social studies class saying that they were going to be "reading historical fiction books about slavery" and that permission is needed to read one of the two books due to content. The two books:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (permission needed as has violence and foul language)
Or
Cooper Sun (permission needed as has "inferred" violence against women, whipping, and a slave being killed by a gun)
Travis McGee is entirely based. A true individual.
And MacDonald is a true great. Very underrated. Probably because he had zero respect for any system.
Just going thru the McGee audiobooks - up to 16/21. About my fifth time through.
Also, don't ignore MacDonald's other books. They're fantastic.
Atlas Shrugged
Add "The Mysterious Island" to Verne. Thats a great book.
Don't forget HP Lovecraft, he is slowly being forgotten along with the amazing cthulhu mythos
I have an uncle who's indian, he HATES the jungle book. It's always funny to bring up how great it is in front of him.
My son just came home from school with a permission slip from his social studies class saying that they were going to be "reading historical fiction books about slavery" and that permission is needed to read one of the two books due to content. The two books:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (permission needed as has violence and foul language)
Or
Cooper Sun (permission needed as has "inferred" violence against women, whipping, and a slave being killed by a gun)
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
We're clearly a homophobic, islamophobic, colonialistic and toxic male.
How dare you have them read the stories that made our nation and whole Western Civilization great as well as conquered evil.
Travis McGee is entirely based. A true individual. And MacDonald is a true great. Very underrated. Probably because he had zero respect for any system. Just going thru the McGee audiobooks - up to 16/21. About my fifth time through. Also, don't ignore MacDonald's other books. They're fantastic.