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05-03-2007, 08:59 AM
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The Secret Garden
I know this might sound stupid but i think even though The Secret Garden is a childrens book i feel it is a magical, enchanting and most importantly uplifting story. Its one of my favourite books.
Does anyone else agree with me?
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05-03-2007, 10:08 PM
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I love The Secret Garden! I think just because it's a children's book doesn't mean that grown ups can't like it. Heck, I still adore The Last Unicorn by Beagle and The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. =)
The Secret Garden was also the first movie (well, either that or Free Willy) that my dad ever took me to as a little girl.
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05-03-2007, 10:56 PM
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I love The Secret Garden. For the longest time I didn't know there was a book, I would just always watch the movie. But I finally got the book, and I really loved it. I don't care what type of book it is, a good book is a good book.
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Last edited by VinrAlfakyn : 05-06-2007 at 04:43 PM.
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05-05-2007, 03:52 PM
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cool, i'm glad other people enjoy it other than kids and its not just me. To be fair I still enjoy lots of books that are supposedly intended for children. I reckon i must just be a big kid at heart.
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05-08-2007, 05:00 AM
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I generally don't read much children's books, and though I haven't read the Secret Garden in a long time, I love the novel. Amazing and enchanting.
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05-09-2007, 01:09 AM
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I found it amazing how Bruce Springsteen could condense the book into a couple verses, and then play it to music. It definately deserves to be on his greatest hits album.
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05-09-2007, 04:57 PM
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I remember the Secret Garden..
My favorite kids book is The Phantom Tollbooth. I can read it today and still be amused.
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05-09-2007, 06:51 PM
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I'm still a kid and my favorite book is The Phantom Tollbooth 
I don't remember much about The Secret Garden except that I began reading it with expectations of something girly that a manly man like me shouldn't like, and when I finished I was like "Dude, that was good!"
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01-24-2008, 08:34 PM
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The Secret Garden and Little Princess are my fave books, althow i'm an adult, the childrens classics are still my faves, they inspire mt to write!
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01-24-2008, 08:45 PM
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Yeah, I read Secret Garden three or four times when I was little. It's amazing. I remember the emotions it would stir up inside me. Not many books can do that.
Where the Red Fern Grows is another one.
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04-10-2008, 09:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Xion Night
I'm still a kid and my favorite book is The Phantom Tollbooth
I don't remember much about The Secret Garden except that I began reading it with expectations of something girly that a manly man like me shouldn't like, and when I finished I was like "Dude, that was good!" |
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04-10-2008, 09:01 PM
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Ooops! Sorry about that.
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05-15-2008, 09:57 PM
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So with you, davetherave. Its one of my favourites and I re-read it this year to use in an assignment -- hehe I love any excuse to read...actually I don't need any excuse. I love it so much, I'll probably know it by heart one day
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08-13-2008, 06:01 PM
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Another book I read to my daughter when she was little, she hated it , we kept reading a little bit more just to see if anything would happen and it never did so at her insistence we gave up in the end. I read the ending for myself to see what would happen and found it deathly dull and entirely predictable.
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08-14-2008, 04:57 AM
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I liked the secret garden although I liked The Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy more
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