Zorro and the Pie Rats

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-02-11 08:43pm

http://www.smith-house.org/books/Larry_ ... -rats.html

No wonder our youth's reading comprehension is so low these days...
I'm not sure whether I should be amused or exasperated.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-11 10:35pm

I am SO glad I had pretty good teachers growing up. In third grade we had to write a story per day...my fifth grade (or sixth grade?) teacher gave me the book Hatchet for Christmas...always had the Scholastic book fliers (I loved those so much)...then in eighth grade we read The Hobbit...

Flash forward to today and I'm chewin' through books like Cryptonomicon.

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2003-02-11 10:58pm

Who the fuck wrote this? The writing looks childish, yet the pictures look like they were drawn by a high-schooler! Of course, maybe an elementary school kid and a high school kid cooperated on this, but why would a high-school kid do this?

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-11 11:06pm

Dalton wrote:I am SO glad I had pretty good teachers growing up. In third grade we had to write a story per day...my fifth grade (or sixth grade?) teacher gave me the book Hatchet for Christmas...always had the Scholastic book fliers (I loved those so much)...then in eighth grade we read The Hobbit...

Flash forward to today and I'm chewin' through books like Cryptonomicon.

Hatchet. Now that was a cool book. The Return however, blew goats.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-02-11 11:19pm

Dalton wrote:I am SO glad I had pretty good teachers growing up. In third grade we had to write a story per day...my fifth grade (or sixth grade?) teacher gave me the book Hatchet for Christmas...always had the Scholastic book fliers (I loved those so much)...then in eighth grade we read The Hobbit...

Flash forward to today and I'm chewin' through books like Cryptonomicon.

Bah, I was reading that in 8th grade. I'm catching up

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2003-02-11 11:21pm

then in eighth grade we read The Hobbit...

Mwahahaha! My class read the Hobbit in sixth grade! *evil laughter*

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-02-11 11:29pm

jaeger115 wrote:
then in eighth grade we read The Hobbit...
Mwahahaha! My class read the Hobbit in sixth grade! *evil laughter*

I read it in fourth grade, and LotR. Not for a class though, just on my own.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-02-11 11:34pm

/me wonders how much you comprehended.

By 5th grade, I was supposed to have a college reading level

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-02-11 11:39pm

Exonerate wrote:/me wonders how much you comprehended.

By 5th grade, I was supposed to have a college reading level

I understood the book just fine. I was sorta the same as you. By the time I was in middle school I was reading/writing past many High schoolers.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-02-12 01:17pm

In fourth grade I read a 600-page long book, in ENGLISH (never mind that all my knowledge of english was from playing games like Zork or Space Quest), called "The True Game". Some sort of freaky fantasy world. Of course I didn't understand several adult themes (like people having sex) but I didn't do too bad, finished it in about 2 weeks. A few years later I read it again, took me 3 days.

EDIT: now, thanks to your link, I'm going to have to re-read all my elementary school books so I can recover from all that IQ spillage. Damn you

The Great Unbearded One · Post by **The Great Unbearded One** » 2003-02-12 04:18pm

I was the top reader in my english class all the way through Primary School

And currently I'm reading all the ROBERT RANKIN books I can. I highly recommend them to everyone. With such titles as

RAIDERS OF THE LOST CAR PARK
SEX, DRUGS AND SAUSAGE ROLLS
THE HOLLOW CHOCOLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE
THE ANTIPOPE

How can you go wrong? The man is an inspired comical genius of a writer!