Andrew’s Comments (group member since Jan 17, 2016)

Andrew’s comments from the Overdue Podcast group.

A couple of you guys suggested that we do a listener Q&A episode, and as you may have heard we're planning on doing it as our bonus episode for June - we wouldn't be recording it until next week or the week after, but if you have questions you can ask them here! (Or on Facebook, or Twitter, or via overduepod@gmail.com). We might also do a live Hangout for you guys as we record but we're still working out the details. :)

I tried to sell Craig on doing some Chuck Tingle work for Episode 200 and he said no, just so you know which one of us is responsible.

I am of two minds about this: on the one hand I think you definitely need to be careful when introducing younger readers to stories with heavily outdated notions of race/gender/sexuality/etc. And young readers DO get exposed to these, if only through abridged versions (I got quite a few 19th century novels this way).

On the other hand, it's still worthwhile to read these stories (1) to study the evolution of the form and (2) and have the discussions about the topics that they bring up. What's outdated and why? How are things better now? How *aren't* they better? But in any case I totally agree that it sucks to go back to something you used to like and find that you can't enjoy it as much because of how dated it is.

Sub-question, if you were to recommend some better, more modern Crusoe-esque adventure stories to young readers, what would they be?