tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post5437067384723863297..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Childish Things? by Anna WilsonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-90231592255771368932014-08-29T11:59:29.306+01:002014-08-29T11:59:29.306+01:00I agree with Nick. Categories are there to help w...I agree with Nick. Categories are there to help with the marketing and selling, but sadly (?) neither books nor people are very good at fitting in boxes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-44322861751050453802014-08-29T11:52:51.538+01:002014-08-29T11:52:51.538+01:00I think categories were only ever artificial, impo...I think categories were only ever artificial, imposed by sellers to make it easier for buyers to shop. I was thinking the other day about Watership Down, and that wonderful, terrible film adaptation of it. Wonderfully done, but terrible for young children to watch. Gas-crazed rabbits clawing each other's throats out as they struggle hopelessly for air in a semi-hallucinatory nightmare... Literal rivers of blood... No-holds-barred fights to the death, graphic violence, sorrow and loss... and Bright Eyes, oh God, BRIGHT EYES, you well up just thinking about it... How could any parent knowingly inflict such emotional torture on their kids?<br /><br />But it worked. And it was a classic. Because it wasn't made 'for children'. It was made for the story, and everything else be damned.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08191176209084540085noreply@blogger.com