Dani's review
Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
Dani's review
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Dani's review
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Like so many children's classics, I read this in school as a child, and unfortunately I found it as boring then as I do now.
I reread this book and wow, what drivel.
Babbit is a gifted writer, no doubt, but I cannot stand the moralizing tone of the book.
The concept of immortality and that natural cycle of life and death are important issues to bring to the table with kids. Too bad Babbit doesn't let her readers make the choice that Winnie does. Babbit stresses the view that immortality is a living hell, and the only sensible choice is a natural life span. While that may be the choice, we'd all like to come to -- accepting death being part of the whole mortality thing we have going on as human beings -- I wish the author had respected the issue and her readers enough to truly show both sides of the argument.
Who hasn't wanted to live forever? Babbit's take on this tale is so simplistic and moralizing that that it makes me throw up in my mouth a little.
I reread this book and wow, what drivel.
Babbit is a gifted writer, no doubt, but I cannot stand the moralizing tone of the book.
The concept of immortality and that natural cycle of life and death are important issues to bring to the table with kids. Too bad Babbit doesn't let her readers make the choice that Winnie does. Babbit stresses the view that immortality is a living hell, and the only sensible choice is a natural life span. While that may be the choice, we'd all like to come to -- accepting death being part of the whole mortality thing we have going on as human beings -- I wish the author had respected the issue and her readers enough to truly show both sides of the argument.
Who hasn't wanted to live forever? Babbit's take on this tale is so simplistic and moralizing that that it makes me throw up in my mouth a little.
