Kathy Connors asked this question about A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1):
My granddaughter loves to read and I have just received the 5 books in this series - my question is she is 17 - would this be appropriate to send her after I finished - I couldn't find any reviews
Dylan Bredeau As somebody who started reading these and similar books at about age eight, I never felt like these books had a negative impact on me. In today's soci…moreAs somebody who started reading these and similar books at about age eight, I never felt like these books had a negative impact on me. In today's society, the fact that a kid wants to read a book at all is impressive enough that it shouldn't be discouraged, and the children's author Judy Blume once made a very good point that when a young person reads, it's a construction of the imagination, which means that if that young person hasn't been exposed to such words or ideas before, the mind does its own editing on the content at hand.(less)
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